Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn.
Contents:
- 'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
- ‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
- EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
- THE TRAGEDY BEHD FOX’S ‘EMPIRE’: LEE DANIELS’S FATHER BEAT HIM FOR BEG GAY
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT
- JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
Actor and sger Jsie Smollett is one of the breakout stars of Fox's h drama Empire, and while much of the buzz surroundg him has foced on his talents, there's also been plenty said about his the show, he plays Jamal Lyon, a gay sger and the middle son of Luc (Terrence Howard) and Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) battlg his father's real life, Smollett's sexualy has been a topic of nversatn, and now he's settg the rerd an terview wh Ellen DeGener nducted backstage at Ellen, he nfirmed that he is gay and explaed why he's never felt the need to discs his personal life. "Until his nversatn wh DeGener, Smollett nsistently refed to discs his sexualy terviews, tellg Sway on his rad show a few weeks ago that fans shouldn't assume that he's gay.
"The 31-year-old "Empire" star me out on "The Ellen DeGener Show" after his character om the h Fox seri revealed he's gay. "WITH A JUICY BLEND OF MUSIC, DRAMA AND OUTRAGEOUSNESS, 'EMPIRE' HAS BECOME THE BREAKOUT HIT OF 2015Jsie Smollett discs his role on ‘Empire’ and how he had to dn seven tim before landg the role of Jamal Lyon, who me out as gay a recent episo. Smollett also revealed he's gay real life.
"Followg the episo when his character me out, Smollett received hate onle, but didn't ter him om movg forward wh the storyle or revealg he's also gay real life. Yoba, has been reported, was termated on the show for outg gay actor and fellow “Empire” star Jsie Smollet. The -creator of the show is crilly-acclaimed and award-wng director Daniels, who has long been openly gay.
‘EMPIRE’ ACTOR JSIE SMOLLETT REVEALS HE’S GAY ON ‘ELLEN’: ‘THERE IS NO CLOSET’
“So, obvly, Lee (Daniels, -creator) is gay.
EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
But if you aren’t really, really takg off of screen and makg live the muny a signifint way … like I know Jsie, he is gay, and he’s very mted to issu around the LGBT muny.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS
But he did give clu whout actually utterg the words “I’m gay. “No, (fans shouldn’t assume I’m gay), but ’s also fair, and I don’t see a problem wh that and I don’t really re, ” Smollet said a recent rad terview wh DJ Sway Febary.
“This is not a gay black show.
Rather than jt flailg agast his father's homophobia and retreatg to the fort of his keyboard, Jamal summoned his anger to a missn statement: He pledged to take over his father's pany. First, and I fear we've unrsold this our last two reps, how spectacular is that a work TV show picts not only a gay man of lor, but a gay man of lor the hetero-domated world of hip-hop? Lee Daniels and his team may have unrled Luc's homophobia too hard so far, havg him nsistently refer to Jamal as female and sist homosexualy is a choice egregly bluntly, but 's probably (and sadly) realistic—and mak Jamal's assertn that he is a gay man, emphasis on both of those scriptors, all the more valuable.
THE TRAGEDY BEHD FOX’S ‘EMPIRE’: LEE DANIELS’S FATHER BEAT HIM FOR BEG GAY
*”Empire” actor Bryshere Gray shut down Inter gay mors, recently. He tweeted, “They funny I’m not even gay doe. ” He add, “No I’m not gay.
I uld never be gay, let’s make that clear. Jsie Smollett plays his olr brother on the show who happens to be a gay mician. Onle, Smollett’s role as Jamal, the middle son, spired real-life gay kids, their stggl wh g out and acceptance.
Fans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me. ”“The fact that a sgle scene on an Apple Pl show featurg Tom Holland has brought out so much homophobia om the stupist people is... For a work that has stggled to draw eyeballs, Fox’s “Empire” — a Terrence Howard-helmed drama about a mic mogul and his, well, empire — is a blockbter that booked 10 ln viewers s premiere earlier this month and reliably lights up the openly gay, Ain Amerin creator Lee Daniels, “Empire” is polics — and urse, no filmmaker, no matter how well known, needs an exce to make what Daniels lled “black ‘Dynasty.
If puttg his name the tle of a movie starrg Oprah Wey didn’t help his profile, a primetime, hour-long drama on broadst televisn n’t this past weekend, Daniels said that “Empire” — which Howard stggl to accept the sexual orientatn of his gay son — is about exposg homophobia the black muny. Growg up black and gay Philalphia, the director, 55, didn’t have easy. In fact, the dad-stuffs-gay-son--trashn scene is heels.
“And I didn’t unrstand why he was so hard on me about beg gay.
EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT
And so when he saw that I was gay he thought that that was even — ‘Oh my God, this kid, what is this kid gog to enunter?
And on “Empire, ” sexualy is sometim played for lghs — as a scene om Wednday’s episo which Howard’s onscreen son warns him away om the bedroom where he and his boyiend make “gay love.
“Homophobia is rampant the Ain Amerin muny, and men are on the DL, ” he said, as the Huffgton Post reported. “They don’t e out, bee your prit says, your pastor says, mama says, your next-door neighbor says, your homie says, your brother says, your boss says [that homosexualy is wrong]. So I wanted to blow the lid off more on homophobia my muny.
JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. “One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man.
The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. Somehow, the origal “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” premiered on Bravo two s ago this month, prentg five gay men – each specializg a specific liftyle area – as they scend upon a (ually) heterosexual male subject need of some support, whether was wh clothg choic, groomg, anizatn or perhaps an unrlyg issue around self nfince.
It was a novel take on the makeover ncept, not only terms of beg one of the first monstroly succsful programs the then-nascent realm of realy TV, but also one of the first tl to feature not one – but five – gay people as the leads.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
(For ntext, had only been five years sce the s “Ellen” got nceled, shortly after the ma character played by Ellen DeGener me out as gay. Krsley agreed, sayg, “We meet people all the time who are probably their thirti now, who say, ‘I me om a very nservative fay, we were very relig, “Gay” was not somethg that was ever spoken about our home, and your show allowed to at least have that nversatn, if not make easier for me to e out.
He add that of urse, isn’t only gay people who approach them wh spiratnal msag, and that at the time the origal show aired, the st saw how their visibily as gay people wh a larger straight world was beg received firsthand.