The boy-band graduate talks about his new mil directn, his 'amazg' first time at a gay club, and uppg LGBT visibily on TV Kgdom.
Contents:
- NICK JONAS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY ROL
- NICK JONAS: 'MY FIRST TIME AT A GAY CLUB...'
- NICK JONAS TALKS BEG AN LGBT IN AND ADDRS ''GAY BAG'' ACCATNS
- NICK JONAS TALKS GAY-BAG CLAIMS: 'IT'S REALLY QUE SAD'
- NICK JONAS: I’M NOT A GAY IN
- NICK JONAS: I LEARNT TO ACCEPT GAY PEOPLE AT EIGHT YEARS OLD
NICK JONAS OPENS UP ABOUT HIS GAY ROL
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NICK JONAS: 'MY FIRST TIME AT A GAY CLUB...'
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NICK JONAS TALKS BEG AN LGBT IN AND ADDRS ''GAY BAG'' ACCATNS
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” Durg the publicy tour for his album, he equently vised gay bars, toyed wh the qutn as to whether or not he’d experimented sexually wh men by sayg, “I n’t say I have or I haven’t, ” among many other thgs. If one was to look back even further, the term was ed to scribe “homophobic practic polics and law, ” Himberg says.
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NICK JONAS TALKS GAY-BAG CLAIMS: 'IT'S REALLY QUE SAD'
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” Himberg says this strategy durg the McCarthy era was “about drawg out ‘spected homosexuals’ g var tactics cludg entrapment, blackmail, affiliatns wh var anizatns, and artistic tradns. Of urse, wasn’t too long ago that “gay panic” was a mon legal fense agast “cent advanc” — so the fact that younger generatns are now urtg LGBTQ+ dienc through explic queer performativy is seen by many as a progrs and a posive velopment. The youngt JoBro is stagg a take over: between his tour of North Ameri and starrg a buzzy new TV show, he has all jealo -- not to mentn watchg his scene-stealg turn on Fox's Scream, who plays preppy-boy Boone on the seri, tells that he choos his rol "not based on whether the character is gay or straight, but about what the story is and what the dience is gog to get out of .
NICK JONAS: I’M NOT A GAY IN
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NICK JONAS: I LEARNT TO ACCEPT GAY PEOPLE AT EIGHT YEARS OLD
In the Febary/March 2016 Issue of Complex, the actor-sger nonted both accatns head-on: "As a heterosexual male, [I am] open and fortable about lovg my fan base, gay or straight, bee to me there is no difference, is my fan base.
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