Tyler Jam Williams spoke to Bossip about his role "Dear Whe People" playg a gay character, race and terracial datg Ameri.
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- ‘DEAR WHE PEOPLE’ SEASON 2 FALLY GIV ITS GAY CHARACTER SOME MEAT TO SK HIS TEETH INTO
- DEAR WHE GAY MEN: LABELG PEOPLE OF COLOR "DIVISIVE" ISN'T A CRIQUE — IT'S RACISM
- THAT GAY ROMANCE ON DEAR WHE PEOPLE
‘DEAR WHE PEOPLE’ SEASON 2 FALLY GIV ITS GAY CHARACTER SOME MEAT TO SK HIS TEETH INTO
Is DeRon Horton gay like his character ‘Dear Whe People’? What the actor has to say — or not say —about his sexualy and narrow-mdns. * dear white people gay *
Lnel explor the "Deep End" of the gay scene.
Last season, we watched Lnel (DeRon Horton) wa to the datg pool and experience racism the gay muny firsthand. This show brgs every sgle thg out of the closet, not jt s gay characters. Gay folks, LGBTQ folks aren't monolhic eher.
DEAR WHE GAY MEN: LABELG PEOPLE OF COLOR "DIVISIVE" ISN'T A CRIQUE — IT'S RACISM
It was ccial for Jt Simien, the show's openly gay creator, to put a spectm of LGBTQ inti the seri. In the seri, DWP's efforts to further velop Lnel’s persona filled a void of erasure and misreprentatn among muni that are normally left behd popular culture, specifilly Black gay men om Hoton.
Not all Black gay men have the accs to each other to learn about who we are. Before DWP, I stggled to fd nuanced reprentatns of Black gay men pop culture.
Lnel's portrayal broke the ceilg of Black, gay, Southern reprentatn and showed how a lead televisn character om Hoton n be spirg to people like me. Dear Whe People Season 2, the racially charged and satiril Netflix seri based on the 2014 film of the same name, jt dropped this last Friday and ’s super good and super gay. Not only do Lnel, the seri’ gay journalist, fally start to pursue romance, but the show also troduc a send gay character and several jaw-droppg surpris that will give you some ser feels, no matter how you feel about racial jtice issu.
THAT GAY ROMANCE ON DEAR WHE PEOPLE
Lnel (left) speaks wh some lerary gays Dear Whe People Season 2.
Durg the town hall, Lnel publish an onle expose (agast his gay edor Silv’s wish) revealg that one of the school’s wealthy donors has threatened to whhold funds unls the school tegrat s historilly black rince hall, known as Armstrong Parker. Amidst hobnobbg wh lerary gays, dancg queens and theatre queers, Lnel ns to Todrick Hall, the real-life choreographer and sger, holdg urt wh Samantha and other gay black men.
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