Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette) Talks ‘Te Blood,’ Gay Marriage, Tyler Perry –

Contents:

• 'TE BLOOD' ACTOR NELSAN ELLIS: FORMER STAR QU BEE HE DIDN'T 'WANT TO PLAY A GAY PART'
• SPOILER ALERT: TE BLOOD TURNS STRAIGHT CHARACTER GAY… BUT WHICH ONE?
• 'TE BLOOD' ACTOR LE GRIM QU OVER GAY ROLE (REPORT)
• NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
• TE BLOOD'S LAFAYETTE SLAYS GAY STEREOTYP
• TE BLOOD’S NELSAN ELLIS TALKS GAY STEREOTYP & TYLER PERRY

'TE BLOOD' ACTOR NELSAN ELLIS: FORMER STAR QU BEE HE DIDN'T 'WANT TO PLAY A GAY PART'

Relled by many as talented and unrrated, Ellis beme a Te Blood fan-favore for his portrayal of the scene-stealg, gay short orr ok at Merlotte’s Bar the fictnal Louisiana town.

” Ellis’s character was ld for breakg stereotyp of gay men. ” Ellis played Lafayette Reynolds, a gay ok, through the seven-season n of “Te Blood.

SPOILER ALERT: TE BLOOD TURNS STRAIGHT CHARACTER GAY… BUT WHICH ONE?

”Onle news se The Gr praised Ellis’s portrayal of Lafayette as one that “slays gay stereotyp. "Yet over s seven seasons the seri also went the extra e by cludg many gay, lbian, and bisexual characters who were jt as diverse, dangero, and memorable as Bon Temps' other rints. He was open and unapologetic about his love of sex and the male form while livg the ty fictnal town of Bon Temps, Louisiana — the type of place where ’s not necsarily safe to be gay, or black, and certaly not both at the same time.

As Lafayette, Ellis expand the untry’s llective imagatn of what a queer black man uld look, sound and act like, startg jt months before California passed Proposn 8, which banned same-sex marriage, and years before Print Barack Obama announced an “evolutn” his thkg about gay rights. Williams) such a memorable part of The Wire — his gayns isn’t the fg feature of his character. He’s gay a way that feels unique to the projects of Baltimore.

When first aired 2005, Noah’s Arc many ways felt like a black rponse to the overwhelmg whens of Showtime’s Amerin adaptatn of Queer as Folk, another landmark show that challenged what meant to see gay men on televisn. Noah’s Arc centered on a group of middle-class gay black men livg Los Angel. It was a way to say, “Hey, black people live gentrified gayborhoods and drk smopolans and battle HIV stigma too.

'TE BLOOD' ACTOR LE GRIM QU OVER GAY ROLE (REPORT)

I don’t answer that qutn — ‘Are you gay or not? Ne years after the last episo of The Wire aired, Williams is still sistg terviews that he’s more than jt Omar Ltle, spe a lany of rol, gay and straight, sce Omar buted. But Grim reportedly qu December when he found out Kent was bisexual and startg a romantic relatnship wh a gay character the seventh and fal Nelsan Ellis, the actor who plays Kent’s gay lover on the show, is speakg up -- and he’s not happy.

“You qu your job bee you don’t want to play a gay part?

You make a big statement when you go, ‘I don’t want to play this part bee ’s gay, ” Ellis told New York Magaze followg the airg this week of his character’s sex scene wh the new actor playg Kent.

NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY

”Yet crics argue that Grim should have known what he was gettg to when he ially signed the dotted le, given that the supernatural drama – created by the openly gay Alan Ball and produced by his pany njunctn wh HBO – routely ph the envelope when to relatnships. “It’s unfortunate that an actor today would feel unfortable playg gay, pecially on a program that has always put LGBT characters ont and center, ” Stacy Lambe, Associate Edor for the gay and lbian-foced OUT Magaze said. But his portrayal of the gay short-orr ok who als blood was so popular among fans that even though the character was killed off the book versn of the vampire drama, he was kept on for all seven seasons of the show, Rollg Stone reports.

" When asked whether he had heard feedback om the gay muny, Ellis told the magaze, "Only that they haven't seen a du like that before. Take a look back at some of the gay sex dreams that have appeared on Te Blood, which, often feature Kwanten as the betiful season 6, Jason Stackhoe shared a sexy dream sequence after drkg the vae of the vampire-fairy Warlow, played by Rob Kazsky. Earlier the show's n, Jason received a surprise bedfellow the form of Eddie, a middle-aged gay vampire.

Lafayette, Bon Temps' only openly gay and androgyno dg aler, regularly claps back at bigoted whe folks and homophob ’s also worth notg that Tara herself eventually beme a vampire, spe beg extremely wary of them earlier the seri.

TE BLOOD'S LAFAYETTE SLAYS GAY STEREOTYP

And, of urse, there’s rint bisexual Pam and openly gay Lafayette, the latter of whom is now settled down wh J.

Lafayette is a flamboyant, charismatic gay man. Bee he is gay, people tend to unrtimate Lafayette, but he has taken down human men. Now, a new report claims those "differenc" stemmed om a gay plotle.

Buzzfeed reports that Grim -- who prevly played Jam, the vampire boyiend of Jsi (Deborah Ann Woll) -- qu bee the Season 7 script of the vampire-centric HBO show clud a romance between his character and the openly gay Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis). The rt of n s back and bge-watch Te Blood, Teen Wolf, and Amerin Horror before the, there was Dante's Cove -- a full-on gay, steamy, wchy drama om the early 2000s (produced by the same pany that owns The Advote).

TE BLOOD’S NELSAN ELLIS TALKS GAY STEREOTYP & TYLER PERRY

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(Nearly all the homoerotic scen the show were dream sequenc). Evan Peters's crazy gay lnaire and his boy toy om Amerin Horror Story: Freak Show. In season 6 of the vampire melodrama, Jason Stackhoe had (yet another) homoerotic daydream -- this one about the vampire-fairy Warlow (Rob Kazsky).