Is The Walkg Dead's J Gay? Here's What Thomas Payne Says | Cemablend

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.

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' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY

The Walkg Dead has also stggled to portray s only current gay relatnship between Alexandrians Aaron and Eric. 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.

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.

IS J GAY IN THE WALKG DEAD COMICS?

"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. 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.

IS THE WALKG DEAD'S J GAY? HERE'S WHAT THOMAS PAYNE SAYS

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. But bee we are all human, the nversatn has now turned to sexualy, and the Inter was recently taken by storm by ments the actor ma about J potentially beg gay. Perhaps thgs were taken slightly out of ntext, though, as Payne said this when asked about havg suated J' homosexualy:Yeah, he's...

But sce any attempts to take him down and get rmatn would jt lead to him bamboozlg and pg, we'll have to look to the show and givg his answer to TMZ, Thomas Payne mentns that J is gay the source material, which is ed the se. Even though we know Daryl's not gay (at least officially), people still qutn , and the same will probably happen wh J if nothg five gets revealed soon.