Tom Payne's good-natured badass is the show's third gay ma character.
Contents:
- J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.
- 'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
- IS J GAY IN THE WALKG DEAD COMICS?
- IS THE WALKG DEAD'S J GAY? HERE'S WHAT THOMAS PAYNE SAYS
J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.
Tom Payne's good-natured badass is now the show's third gay ma character. * the walking dead is jesus gay *
In The Walkg Dead ics, he's gay. He's a badass, and he happens to be gay.
"While he isn't the first gay character to be featured on the AMC seri, J beg gay is still a big al for televisn 2017. Progrs has been ma, but gay characters still acunt for a small percentage of total TV rol, acrdg to the latt numbers om GLAAD's 2016 "Where We Are on TV" report.
The "bury your gays" trope beme a hot topic last year after The 100 ntroversially killed off a character named Lexa, shortly after her relatnship wh another female character was nsummated. The Walkg Dead has also stggled to portray s only current gay relatnship between Alexandrians Aaron and Eric.
'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
Payne said last year that he saw no reason why his on-screen J wouldn't be gay, as he is the ics, and tonight's episo "The Other Si, " he officially beme the show's third major gay character. Her girliend Denise (Merrt Wever) was ntroversially killed off what beme part of a troublg TV trend last year; an unwele rurgence of the "Bury Your Gays" trope which me to a head wh a profoundly ntroversial storyle on The CW's The 100.
IS J GAY IN THE WALKG DEAD COMICS?
But the fact that this is now a show wh three gay characters s ma st matters. Given his stat as a badass fan favore, his signifint role the ics and the bonds he's veloped wh several of the show's ma characters, the now-openly-gay J has the potential to bee genuely inic a way Aaron and Tara are not.
Gay characters on televisn are no longer unmon, but gay male hero on actn-led genre shows are, and the fact that The Walkg Dead has an unually bipartisan fan base wh a strong Republin ntgent mak s sexual diversy all the more charged. "In my opn there should be more awome gay people fictn bee there are plenty of awome gay people real life, " Robert Kirkman, who created The Walkg Dead ics and is an EP on the show, said last year.
IS THE WALKG DEAD'S J GAY? HERE'S WHAT THOMAS PAYNE SAYS
Her girliend Denise (Merrt Wever) was ntroversially killed off what beme part of a troublg TV trend last year; an unwele rurgence of the "Bury Your Gays" trope which me to a head wh a profoundly ntroversial storyle on The CW's The the fact that this is now a show wh three gay characters s ma st matters. If you ask a ic rear about J, they'll be quick to pot out that he - like Aaron and Eric - is an openly gay character. "In the past, Robert Kirkman has also nfirmed that J is fely gay on the show, jt hasn't been officially addrsed this week's episo is featurg the characters of The Hilltop, 's likely J will be around.