SWV’s Coko discs her son revealg he is gay (vio)

Contents:

• SWV'S COKO SAYS SHE HAD NO PROBLEM ACCEPTG THAT HER YOUNGT SON IS GAY
• SWV’S COKO DISCS HER SON REVEALG HE IS GAY (VIO)
• CO: THE GROUNDBREAKG GAY CHARACTER ‘THE GOLN GIRLS’ LEFT BEHD
• COKO CLEMONS OPENS UP ABOUT ACCEPTG HER SON BEG GAY
• SWV’S COKO EMBRAC HER YOUNGT SON AFTER HE SHARED HE WAS GAY

SWV'S COKO SAYS SHE HAD NO PROBLEM ACCEPTG THAT HER YOUNGT SON IS GAY

Durg a Q&A ssn wh fans on YouTube recently, Coko of SWV opened up about her youngt son, Jaylon (aka, Jayye), beg gay and embracg him no matter what. Wh that md, when asked if was hard for her to accept that he’s gay, she ma clear that wasn’t. She add, “So bee my youngt son is gay, I don’t dislike him for that?

The 2017 live-actn “Bety and the Beast” reboot ma headl after director Bill Condon announced that the film would clu a gay character ― LeFou, the goofy sikick to villa Gaston ― for the first time the pany’s history. (Some crics, however, felt the “exclively gay moment” Condon promised was a letdown.

Now, one of the -directors of Co, Adrian Mola, is openg up about a new kd of story he wants to tell for Pixar — and has the power to be speakg to the Huffgton Post, Adrian, himself a gay man who thanked his hband durg his 2018 Osrs acceptance speech, explaed why Co is accsible to queer viewers. One ment he ma durg his HuffPost terview relat to the reason he felt so nnected to Co and how his own inti — male, Mexin-Amerin, gay, and so on — fluenced his work on the film (and which uld be a eful fluence creatg an LGBTQ Pixar film): "Havg grown up where ― at multiple tim for multiple reasons ― I had an ner nflict, and I didn’t know exactly how to volize how I was feelg, ma me empathetic to the fact that you never really know what’s gog on someone’s life, " Adrian explaed. Coko Clemons of SWV recently hosted a Q&A on her YouTube page and discsed beg supportive of her son Jaylon Clemons who is gay.

SWV’S COKO DISCS HER SON REVEALG HE IS GAY (VIO)

So bee my youngt son is gay, I don’t dislike him for that. Before T, Capta Holt, Mchell, Cam, Will, Jack, and Ellen, there was Co — the gay hoeboy that served scy one-lers and cheeke seven seasons of The Goln Girls. Charl Lev‘s drag performer-turned-hoekeeper nonted drama and nnected wh his found fay Miami, and provid primetime dienc wh a proment and posive gay character durg the height of the AIDS crisis.

The chance to wre about an unrreprented age group spoke to her, as did Ltlefield’s sistence that the show have a gay character the ma st. At the time, gay characters were mostly relegated to appearg on very special episos where the straight leadg st had to al wh a gay gut star. Harris was on board wh the ia, as she’d already phed primetime boundari wh Soap, a show that featured one of the first recurrg gay characters Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas.

Sensg that “Co the tty drag queen/hoeboy” probably didn’t sound as progrsive as tend, the pilot’s director Jay Sandrich advised Charl Lev to dn for the gay character whout any stereotypil affectatns. Lev bombed and the producers told him to jt play the same kd of gay character he’d prevly played a few episos of the drama Hill Street Blu.

CO: THE GROUNDBREAKG GAY CHARACTER ‘THE GOLN GIRLS’ LEFT BEHD

The dience was also pleasantly surprised by Lev’s Co, as an out-and-proud gay man was still a very rare sight on TV 1985. When Rose worri about how they’ll be able to afford a hoe if Blanche do get married, she says, “What do we have for llateral, a gay ok? It is a shame that h ss went whout a gay regular the years between Soap and Ellen, but there wasn’t room for Co Goln Girls.

Fortunately the show’s ial, gay-clive tentn manifted other ways after Co was cut.

COKO CLEMONS OPENS UP ABOUT ACCEPTG HER SON BEG GAY

The wrg staff, which clud a number of gay wrers, also tackled gay issu g the four leads as stand-s.

In the episo, Blanche tells Rose that AIDS is “not a bad person’s disease, ” a massively important statement nsirg the silence about AIDS as ravaged the gay muny the ’80s. The show may not have had a gay character, but alt wh gay issu a more hont and upont fashn than any other show up until that pot. The LGBT muny, particularly gay men, have latched onto the show bee of this.

SWV’S COKO EMBRAC HER YOUNGT SON AFTER HE SHARED HE WAS GAY

There may not be a gay man proudly llg himself a Co, but there are legns of Blanch, Ros, Dorothi, and Sophias.