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CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
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You n easily unt the number of scripted televisn shows that currently feature gay black male characters who are seri regulars.
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For example, Episo 2 (which Simien wrote), when Lnel flash back to his high school Halloween dance and the ol kids are makg fun of him and llg him gay for drsg like Star Trek: The Next Generatn character Geordi La Fe, that's bee La Fe was an important black character durg Simien's formative years. “Lnel is queer but he don't really f any of the gay, black, male projectns out there and that was my stggle too, ” Simien said.
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“It means a fuckg lot to put a gay black male character out there the world that don't look like the other on bee there's a lot of . Over the urse of 10 episos, Lnel navigat a si of llegiate gay life not often portrayed pop culture: There’s the aforementned threome and csh on Troy, his roommate. But viewers also seem him grapple wh how to fe himself wh the gay muny — a quick sn of a Grdr-like app reveals to Lnel a myriad of nfoundg subtegori, and his edor at the school paper don’t make the choice any clearer.
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“Personally I’m a Mexin-Italian gay verse top otter pup, ” he tells Lnel, who repli, “Individually, I know what those words mean…” Lnel’s stggle to relate to other gay men around him is credibly h terra that Simien hop to lve much more eply to should Netflix orr addnal Simien didn’t feel an urgency to create Lnel solely for himself — he also did for the lns of gay black boys out there whose liv uld be changed or bettered by growg up wh the abily to watch and relate to a character like this. “To me one of the most lastg impacts a show like Empire n have — 's soapy, 's entertag, 's all of that, but 's also beamg a black gay male character to the hom of many black fai that otherwise would never have to nont that kd of characters, ” he said. I've lost iends to var thgs bee they were out there the streets and didn't feel worthy bee they were black and gay and livg the South.
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