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SWV’s Coko recently took to social media and exprsed her acceptance of her youngt son, Jaylon Clemons, after he recently me out as gay.

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

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. * coco gay son *

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

COKO CLEMONS OPENS UP ABOUT ACCEPTG HER SON BEG GAY

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

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

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Now, one of the -directors of <a href="><em>Co</em></a>, Adrian Mola, is openg up about a new kd of story he wants to tell for Pixar — and has the power to be groundbreakg.</p><p>While speakg <a href=">to the <em>Huffgton Post</em></a>, Adrian, himself a gay man who <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">thanked his hband</a> durg his 2018 Osrs acceptance speech, explaed why <em>Co</em> is accsible to queer viewers. When asked how the msage of <em>Co</em> would ronate specifilly wh queer viewers, Adrian replied, "I thk the stggle Miguel go through ― between havg this personal passn, this tuive sense of the person he is, but beg unable to show that, and the way he works through his nflict ― [n speak] to the journey of a queer person."</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>His posive rponse led to the natural follow-up qutn, "What do you thk would take for an animated fay film wh a queer protagonist or angle to get the green light?" bee 's important for queer viewers to not jt make do fdg reprentatn non-queer films, but to have their own stori be told as well.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>For Adrian, he's "exactly of the same mdset" as <em>Co</em> producer Darla K. Anrson, who has prevly <a href=">voiced a sire</a> to create an LGBTQ animated movie for Pixar when the timg is right. "I thk you’d have to have someone wh a really great ia," Adrian said. "It would have to be a pellg story that had universal appeal. There are so many betiful stori to be told and so many characters to explore. I’m all for ."</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="i8g1vj"></div></div><p>If anythg, we hope that when (not "if") the time for Pixar to once aga go to new terrory and brg an LGBTQ story to the screen, Adrian and/or other queer filmmakers are once aga leadg the way. One ment he ma durg his HuffPost terview relat to the reason he felt so nnected to <em>Co</em> 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. "Havg lived that experience really allowed me to be tune wh the human spir and the stggl that n go unspoken."</p><p><strong>Let sli to your DMs.</strong> <a href=">Sign up for the <em>Teen Vogue</em> daily email</a>.</p><p><strong>Want more om <em>Teen Vogue</em>? 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data-recirc-id="em-hed-1" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ fOAWJi summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">'Talk to Me' Is Censored Kuwa Over Actor’s Genr Inty</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd eBANPJ iponZO summary-em__k">“I am a trans actor who happened to get the role. I’m not a theme. I’m a person,” actor Zoe Terak wrote on social media. “Kuwa has banned this film due to my inty alone.”</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY dhnQGM summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gETtIb byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd hXReUT gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Savannah Walsh</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff gtfMax summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm eOsELH" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="The Polly Pocket Movie Is Comg, Starrg Lily Colls" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX fiYQJA bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Culture</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM hlgoFI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-2" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ fOAWJi summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">The Polly Pocket Movie Is Comg, Starrg Lily Colls</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd eBANPJ iponZO summary-em__k">Barbieland out, Pollyville .</div><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY dhnQGM summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gETtIb byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd hXReUT gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Sara Delgado</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="SummaryItemWrapper-iwvBff gtfMax summary-em summary-em--has-le summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-text-below summary-em--layout-posn-image-left summary-em--layout-proportns-50-50 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm eOsELH" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg bDvSkO summary-em__image rponsive-image"><noscript><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="" siz="100vw"/><img alt="It's Time for Hollywood Empir to Fall" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></noscript></picture></div></div></span></a></div><div class="SummaryItemContent-eiDYMl XMZX summary-em__ntent"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX fiYQJA bric bric--disvery SummaryItemRubric-dguGKN lapGFj summary-em__bric"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">Polics</span></div><a class="SummaryItemHedLk-civM hlgoFI summary-em-trackg__hed-lk summary-em__hed-lk" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-hed-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" href=" target="_self"><div data-ttid="ClampWrapper" class="ClampWrapper-kZxfkB hTTNGO clamp SummaryItemHedBase-hiFYpQ fOAWJi summary-em__hed"><div class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">It's Time for Hollywood Empir to Fall</div></div></div></a><div class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ SummaryItemDek-CRfsi iUEiRd eBANPJ iponZO summary-em__k">If we n’t image other worlds, how n we possibly make them?</div><div 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