After 'Tom Swift' buted at the begng of Pri Month, seri star Tian Richards is reflectg on the prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead character.
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- AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D'S J. AUGT RICHARDS ANNOUNC HE'S GAY: 'ONE OF THE BT DAYS OF MY LIFE'
- HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
- LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
- IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HIS SEXUALY TAILED
- WGN’S DEAN RICHARDS RPONDS TO GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’
- IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HERE IS THE TTH
AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D'S J. AUGT RICHARDS ANNOUNC HE'S GAY: 'ONE OF THE BT DAYS OF MY LIFE'
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Has e out as gay. Oliver Post, a happily married gay black man wh a dghter. “I knew how I was affected by the people of lor I saw on televisn, or that I didn’t see on televisn, so this beg a married, gay man, wh a fay...
HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
The new CW seri, ‘Tom Swift,’ featur Tian Richards the leadg role. Now, many fans of the seri are wonrg if Tian and Tom are gay. * richards gay *
“Hontly, required me to show up fully a way that I don’t always when I’m workg, " he said, before addg, “I knew that I uld not portray this gay man hontly whout lettg you all know that I am a gay man myself. The actor had, after all, already buted his character an episo of Nancy Drew a year prr, and the publicy surroundg his new sp-off seri always celebrated the fact that he was the first gay Black lead on work TV.
Now, as the tular gay Black geni billnaire playboy ma character, Tom is a vilishly charmg, sexy, brilliant ventor wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth. Growg up Black and gay, he didn't see characters like himself the lead role or the center of any stori, let alone one that shows someone like him as a billnaire or brilliant ventor or playboy, and he n't help but wonr how his life might have been different if he had.
" That's how Richards end up alg wh all the add prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead — by focg on all of Tom's layers and makg him a three-dimensnal human rather than a symbol for an entire muny. Wh playg a gay character, you don't want them to be an archetype or fall to a trope, and I ma sure to stay mdful of that. On the surface, he always knew he had a lot mon wh Tom as a gay Black man growg up today's world, but he had no ia jt how much the show was gog to change his life on an ternal level.
LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
I am also a full-time adult performer producg mostly gay porn. You work wh a lot of cis gay men. How do you feel about workg so often wh cis gay men?
IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HIS SEXUALY TAILED
I have had almost-exclively posive experienc wh my cis gay stars. In fact I am really happy how acceptg gay porn performers are of trans men, as they realize that manhood is not fed by genals but stead by personaly and energy.
Although he’s hailed as a queer in and a self-scribed “The Kg and Queen of Rock and Roll, ” his flamboyant inic style differed om the anti-gay Christiany he poed later life, leavg behd a tly nflicted legacy. His dad then kicked him out for beg gay at age 15 and was shot and killed by a ctomer outsi of his own nightclub when Richard was 19. Related: 3 gay micians jt got fired om their Catholic church bee, you know… gay.
WGN’S DEAN RICHARDS RPONDS TO GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’
The song was a fast-spired romp about gay terurse. In 1984, s after his last big h, he said that homosexualy was “unnatural” and “ntag” an terview, and by March 1985, he announced a public sermon:. “I have rejected homosexualy.
Now I get my thrills om the mistry… My te belief about Rock and Roll- and there have been alot of phras attributed to me over the years-is this: I believe this kd of mic is monic… If [God] n save Ltle Richard he n save anybody… I talk about my life as a homosexual and dg addict bee I thk is right to tell people what God has done for me.
IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HERE IS THE TTH
Richard later went on David Letterman’s late-night talk show, explag that when he was gay, he wasn’t a man, but now that he was a man, he uld experience sex wh a woman. In 1995, Richard said he has “been gay all my life” an terview wh Penthoe, but by 2000, he told JET was all an act. ” Yet, by 2017, Richard ma a veiled reference to homosexualy as an “unnatural affectn.
One n’t merely say that Ltle Richard died a homophobe or renounced his queerns when his life and persona as a queer entertaer ma such a cultural impact, makg “male vany” a regular part of rock and fluencg generatns of performers afterwards. But the other aspect of Tom Swift that fans n’t ignore is Tom’s romantic life, which featur one of the rnchit gay hookup scen on work televisn Episo 3.
So is Tom Swift gay? Is Tian, who plays Tom, gay as well?