Kev Hart: I Won’t Play a Gay Character – The Hollywood Reporter

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• OLD KEV HART 'JOKE' ABOUT NOT WANTG A GAY SON RECIRCULAT AFTER HE'S NAMED 2019 OSRS HOST
• KEV HART GAY SON JOKE RURFAC AFTER HE’S NAMED OSR HOST: WATCH
• KEV HART EXPLAS WHY HE DON'T WANT HIS SON TO BE GAY
• KEV HART SLAMMED FOR MENTS HE MA TO LIL NAS X ON RAPPER G OUT AS GAY
• KEV HART SAYS HIS REACTN TO THE IA OF HIS SON BEG GAY IS ABOUT HIS OWN INSECURI
• LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM
• WHAT DID KEV HART SAY? COMEDIAN'S ANTI-GAY TWEETS UNEARTHED AFTER LANDG OSR GIG
• KEV HART IS DELETG OLD ANTI-GAY TWEETS AFTER BEG ANNOUNCED AS OSRS HOST
• OSR HOST KEV HART’S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY TWEETS CREAT NEW PROBLEM FOR AMY
• KEV HART: I WON’T PLAY A GAY CHARACTER

OLD KEV HART 'JOKE' ABOUT NOT WANTG A GAY SON RECIRCULAT AFTER HE'S NAMED 2019 OSRS HOST

An old “joke” Kev Hart told — about not wantg his son to be gay — is circulatg on the ter as an argument that he’s not the bt choice to host the 2019 Amy Awards. And as the ter reacts to the news, an old “joke” the edic actor ma — about not wantg his son to be gay — is beg Hart’s 2010 edy special Serly Funny, he did a b that had him sayg that his “biggt fear” was his son “growg up and beg gay.

” He then lnched to stori about his son, then 3, havg his first gay moment wh a iend and how he need to “nip the bud” by screamg at him, “Stop, that’s gay! ” Hart has sce spoken about the joke, tellg Rollg Stone 2015 that was really about his “own securi” as a parent, aga reeratg he’s not homophobic and sayg he “wouldn’t tell that joke today, bee when I said , the tim weren’t as sensive as they are now. @KevHart4real I tst on Hollywood’s biggt night wh a year filled wh films wh strong LGBTQ characters and them, you’ll leave the “I hope my son don’t grow up gay” jok your other tux?

KEV HART GAY SON JOKE RURFAC AFTER HE’S NAMED OSR HOST: WATCH

Big Gay IrishBearAZ (@irishbearaz) December 5, 2018I’m askg myself why gay hatg Kev Hart is hostg the the Osrs? The Amy has been about cln and now ’s head back to the past promotg anti gay views through s endorsement of hart. — SpeediegATL (@SPEEDIEGATL) December 5, 2018Kev hart is gonna walk on stage at the osrs and do his "my worst fear is my son beg gay ??" sketch— josh (@biIIywilr) December 5, 2018Do @TheAmy know about @KevHart4real's history of homophobia?

In 2017, he told Para, “I had one gay joke my reer and was about my son at a birthday party, and was before thgs got as P. A Kev Hart gay son ‘edy' b om a 2010 stand-up edy special rurfaced on Twter shortly after Hart was named as host of this year's Amy Awards.

In the b, Hart mak a “joke” about not wantg a gay son, sayg, “One of my biggt fears is my son growg up and beg gay. Hart ntued, tellg the dience he's worried about “handlg his son's first gay moment rrectly, ” sayg that when your kid has his “first gay moment…you gotta nip the bud right then.

KEV HART EXPLAS WHY HE DON'T WANT HIS SON TO BE GAY

In a Redd AMA 2014, Hart was asked, “You fd a lot of edy male securi, cludg a famo b where you exprs fear that your son will be gay.

KEV HART SLAMMED FOR MENTS HE MA TO LIL NAS X ON RAPPER G OUT AS GAY

You praised Frank Ocean at the MTV VMAs 2012 for havg the urage to e out, and recently said an terview that you don't do jok any more about gays. In 2015, Hart said he would never play a gay role bee of his own securi, revealg that he turned down a spot 2008's Tropic Thunr bee the role was for a “flagrant” gay character.

havg a ravg homophobe like kev hart host an event as gay as the osrs is like if I was the announcer for the super bowl. Remember that HILARIOUS @KevHart4real b where he's like “One of my BIGGEST FEARS is my son growg up and beg gay!

KEV HART SAYS HIS REACTN TO THE IA OF HIS SON BEG GAY IS ABOUT HIS OWN INSECURI

At the Osrs, I hope Kev Hart tells more jok about his fears that his kids might be gay bee wouldn't that jt be so FUN???

LIL NAS X TRIED TO EXPLA WHY HE ME OUT AS GAY. THEN KEV HART TERPTED HIM

And that terview when you said you won't play a gay character bee mak you unfortable BUTYOURENOTHOMOPHOBIC! Kev Hart, who prevly faced backlash over remarks emed homophobic, is g unr fire for ments he ma to Lil Nas X as the rapper explaed why he waed to publicly e out as an episo of HBO Sport's "The Shop: Unterpted, " the rapper was asked about his g out, which he did a tweet on the last day of Pri Month June as his song "Old Town Road" topped the untry charts.

The song stayed atop the Billboard Hot 100 list for a rerd-smashg 19 Lil Nas X uld offer an explanatn, Hart chimed to ask: "He said he was gay, so what? Lil Nas X told the group of men which clud Hart and athlet Rob Gronkowski and Kev Love among others, that growg up he was tght to "hate" homosexualy.

WHAT DID KEV HART SAY? COMEDIAN'S ANTI-GAY TWEETS UNEARTHED AFTER LANDG OSR GIG

If you really om the hood, you know, " Lil Nas X rpond, referrg to the stigma agast homosexualy the black rapper then explaed that he chose to e out bee he was already at the top of his game and had nothg to ga om . "If you're dog this while you're at the top, you know 's for real and 's showg don't really matter, " he 's ments as Lil Nas X tried to share his story angered many people on social media, some of whom acced the edian of beg dismissive or gaslightg the on social media remd Hart that he stepped down as host of the 2019 Osrs after his old homophobic tweets and jok his 2010 edy special "Serly Funny.

"As a heterosexual male, if I n prevent my son om beg gay, I will, " he told the several tweets, some of which have now been scbbed om his Twter acunt, Hart lled people "gay" and ed homophobic slurs, cludg llg someone a "fat faced f-g. A few edians have gotten to trouble while jokg about how they'd be terribly disappoted if they ever found out that their son was gay.

It seems that a lot of the anxiety about gay sons and their fathers stems om the ia that a man's sexualy is a mentary on what kd of father he had his life.

KEV HART IS DELETG OLD ANTI-GAY TWEETS AFTER BEG ANNOUNCED AS OSRS HOST

His social media prence has also been a major key to his succs wh 34 ln followers on Twter and over 65 ln on Instagram and wh ratgs for the ceremony ntug to spiral down, the Amy clearly hop he’ll help draw viewers back two years of straight whe host Jimmy Kimmel’s rather dull shtick and after an creased ph to improve the diversy of voters, choosg an Ain Amerin host is also a much-need leap forward on there’s one small has a rather vile history of documented homophobia, rangg om offensive standup clangers to dumb terview statements to puerile tweets to a whole embarrassg film filled wh . In 2010 durg his Serly Funny standup special, Hart livered an extend joke based on a fear of his three-year-old son Hendrix turng out gay.

In his extend joke, he claimed to have beaten both his son and another kid who was “grdg” up behd him at a party, somethg that feels particularly grotque when viewed next to the multiple real world stori of parents beatg and torturg their children to ath when a so-lled “gay moment” rears s head.

Gvanni Melton, Gabriel Fernanz, Anthony Avalos, Ronnie Paris – jt a handful of kids killed by parents bee of eher their perceived or nfirmed the same perd, Hart revealed that he turned down a role 2008’s Tropic Thunr bee the character was gay and his behavur was “real flagrant” before addg that he’d never be able to play a gay character the future. Photograph: Patti Perret/APThe ments preced his role oppose Will Ferrell Get Hard, one of the most shockgly regrsive gay panic edi recent memory, an almost two-hour film based around a fear of anal sex. The film’s unarguably wretched low pot arriv when Hart’s character tak Ferrell to a gay bnch “hookup spot” where he tells him he’ll need to learn to perform oral sex to make his time prison easier.

OSR HOST KEV HART’S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY TWEETS CREAT NEW PROBLEM FOR AMY

While beg eyed up by every gay man around them, Hart rms Ferrell of the relative ease of approachg a gay stranger for sex, bee “that’s what they do”. Meanwhile, Hart is approached by a predatory olr gay man who, even after fdg out Hart’s heterosexualy, ref to take no for an answer. The fear of rape is obvly legimate and a man’s fear of beg raped by another man while prison is also unrstandable and by no means homophobic.

The film was also released jt months after The Weddg Rger, a film scribed by The AV Club’s AA Dowd as “a 100-mute gay joke” why at a time when the Amy is sperate to show a more clive si would Hart seem like an appropriate host? Callg someone a “fat faced fag”, parg a profile picture to a “gay bill board for AIDS” and g the term “no homo” to equently remd of his superr heterosexualy. If he’s even ma to ment on any of this, I image he will e his youth as an exce but the tweets qutn were sent his early 30s, que clearly old enough to know the difference between right and Hart is an ditive misstep that highlights how homophobia, sual or blatant, is still -prrised parison wh other discrimatory belief systems.

KEV HART: I WON’T PLAY A GAY CHARACTER

Look at straight edian Peter Serafowicz’s strg of rbbed Tmp vios, meant to be hilarly funny and unthreateng bee he was speakg a “gay voice” or check out straight edians Chelsea Handler and Jimmy Kimmel parg their Republin enemi to bottoms bee that somehow equals lser their book or on a related note, cis edians Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais ntug to ridicule trans people recent ’s obssn wh makg unfunny, disrpectful and appropriate jok about a muny he has shown nothg but bile for along wh a strg of unrepentant rpons to any cricism pats him as someone entirely unservg of a spot on the Osrs stage. If the Amy wants to progrs and rema relevant, handpickg a man wh a history of homophobia is a flashg red siren of an issue, a middle fger up to the LGBT muny and a sign that Osrs might no longer be que as whe but they rema aggrsively straight.

Last year, after beg announced as the host for the 2019 Amy Awards, edian Kev Hart publicly stepped down om the gig when a seri of his old homophobic tweets rurfaced. Some were aimed around his thoughts about how he would react to potentially havg a gay son, which the edian said he would break a dollhoe over his head if he saw him playg wh . Hart’s jok were not simply limed to a few ments on Twter — some of his early stand-up material ntaed homophobic jok, cludg his breakout 2010 edy special Serly Funny.

” While he started the joke by sayg he was not homophobic, many have sce claimed the b was a classic example of homophobia. Fast-forward five years, and Hart has bee an ternatnal superstar, wh far fewer cints volvg homophobic jok durg his time the public eye.