He mmerized on The Wire and Boardwalk Empire, but his gay character on TV as HIV-posive veteran Ken Jon on When We Rise was smooth sailg for the actor and activist.
Contents:
- THE GAY LIFE OF KENH WILLIAMS
- POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
- MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WISHED ‘THE WIRE’ WENT ‘ALL IN’ ON OMAR’S INTIMACY: ‘YOU KNOW GAY PEOPLE F—, RIGHT?’
- IS MICHAEL K WILLIAMS GAY? FANS WONR ABOUT TRIPLE 9 AND THE WIRE ACTOR
- MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WASN'T GAY BUT HE SURELY PUT ON FOR QUEER BLACK PEOPLE
- MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WIFE, NET WORTH, DGS, GAY, SON, GIRLIEND, WIKI, AGE, FAY, GAY SCENE, OBUARY, INSTAGRAM
THE GAY LIFE OF KENH WILLIAMS
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”That may seem like a strg of nonsense words om Dr Sss’s The Cat the Hat or Anthony Burgs’s A Clockwork Orange but ’s a real-life greetg gay men the UK would say to each other the 1950s and 60s. ”Until 1967, homosexual sex was illegal England and Wal. To avoid imprisonment, gay men ed Polari, a language that the Oxford English Dictnary says is “ma up of Italianate phras, rhymg slang and nt terms.
Stanley had booked the pair to a gay hotel, but Williams was upset by “the queens g and gog all night. But their close relatnship was still entirely evint 1970 when Stanley left his wife and moved to a ‘sgle gay flat’ London’s Judd Street.
POLARI: THE LANGUAGE GAY MEN ED TO SURVIVE
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And both liked gay men who looked straight. The pair were portrayed as a gay uple (homosexualy ws still illegal until 1967) and ma much e of Polari. His diari nta referenc to unnsummated or barely nsummated homosexual dallianc, which he scrib as "tradnal matters" or "tradla" (sce male homosexual activy was a crimal offence the UK before 1967, outright admissn would have been held agast him if anyone had read the diari).
He beiend gay playwright Joe Orton, who wrote the role of Inspector Tstt Loot (1966) for him, and had holidays wh Orton and his lover, Kenh Halliwell, Moroc.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WISHED ‘THE WIRE’ WENT ‘ALL IN’ ON OMAR’S INTIMACY: ‘YOU KNOW GAY PEOPLE F—, RIGHT?’
Omar was also gay.
IS MICHAEL K WILLIAMS GAY? FANS WONR ABOUT TRIPLE 9 AND THE WIRE ACTOR
”Christian, who died 2015, ran a welg church, open to everyone — blacks, wh, straights, gays, bisexuals, trans people, sex workers, addicts, the homels, and people livg wh HIV were all clud.
He hid his homosexualy while dog all of that, and then to have all that taken om him. That’s four battl that he’s fought face to face: civil rights, gay rights, HIV, the good old Amerin ary.
”Jon was one of many gay and bi men (as well as transgenr and cisgenr women of lor) who were told they had mere days or weeks to live thanks to the AIDS plitns ravagg their bodi.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WASN'T GAY BUT HE SURELY PUT ON FOR QUEER BLACK PEOPLE
”Like many men his suatn, Jon had nursed a partner as he passed away, then was evicted om their home by homophobic and distant relativ. Fah and antiretrovirals are a potent he knows, for many people wh HIV — pecially the gay on — “ is the church that is unsafe.
MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS WIFE, NET WORTH, DGS, GAY, SON, GIRLIEND, WIKI, AGE, FAY, GAY SCENE, OBUARY, INSTAGRAM
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”Back Hollywood, Williams has played memorable rol om Boardwalk Empire’s Albert “Chalky” Whe to Leonard Pe — another gay, Black Vietnam vet — on Sundance’s Hap and Leonard. Once, years ago, when asked if he had any ncerns about playg a gay character, the actor said no, he didn’t, but, “man, I got a problem wh not eatg. They were two gay men that I loved to ath.