‘Te Blood’ Premiere: EP Alan Ball on the Big ‘Gay’ Reveal, ‘It Was Time’ – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• SPOILER ALERT: TE BLOOD TURNS STRAIGHT CHARACTER GAY… BUT WHICH ONE?
• GLAAD: ‘TE BLOOD’ HAS MOST GAY CHARACTERS
• 'TE BLOOD' TO GA MORE GAY CHARACTERS
• NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
• GLAAD EMS TE BLOOD THE MOST GAY-IENDLY SHOW ON TV
• ‘TE BLOOD’ PREMIERE: EP ALAN BALL ON THE BIG ‘GAY’ REVEAL, ‘IT WAS TIME’

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

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GLAAD: ‘TE BLOOD’ HAS MOST GAY CHARACTERS

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'TE BLOOD' TO GA MORE GAY CHARACTERS

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Will Tman and Jack McFarland, both gay men, broke boundari on "Will & Grace.

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

HBO's "The Wire" handled Omar's sexualy "a measured and matter-of-fact way, " Glen Weldon wrote for Decir, dubbg the notor stick-up man "one of TV's first gay superhero. Kurt Hummel was the first openly gay character troduced on "Glee.

Fox's "Glee" was often praised as an LGBTQ haven, but Kurt — the show's first openly gay character, who famoly kicked a field goal for the football team while performg Beyoncé's "Sgle Ladi" dance — had a particularly strong one of his most memorable moments, Kurt shared a climactic kiss wh Blae that produced ltle to no outrage, a symbolic moment of progrs for onscreen queer reprentatn.

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GLAAD EMS TE BLOOD THE MOST GAY-IENDLY SHOW ON TV

But the evolutn of Brian Kney remas one of the most plex and relatable gay story l on TV. As an openly gay, black police officer, Capta Raymond Holt fought his way through discrimatn on "Brooklyn Ne-Ne.

‘TE BLOOD’ PREMIERE: EP ALAN BALL ON THE BIG ‘GAY’ REVEAL, ‘IT WAS TIME’

As fans of NBC's "Brooklyn Ne-Ne" are aware, Raymond Holt me out as gay the '80s. He stggled wh discrimatn and homophobia as a member of the NYPD, but eventually achieved his dream of beg promoted to pta and never promised his sense of self. Maxxie Oliver rose above homophobia on "Sks.

The realism of "Sks" mand that young adults on TV be taken serly as they navigate sex and the show's first out gay character, Maxxie helped open the door for elevated queer story l teen dramas, pecially on that didn't jt revolve around g out. Especially the ntext of a fay-oriented edy, Mch and Cam helped normalize gay relatnships on TV — pecially sce the show premiered 2009, four years before the Defense of Marriage Act was overturned. Cys Beene was the first openly gay vice print the "Sndal" universe — and otherwise.

But a world where the Vice Print of the Uned Stat actively supports homophobic polici, an openly gay and fluential polician — even on TV — feels like a relief. Elena Alvarez stggled wh her father's homophobia on "One Day at a Time. "Friends" has been cricized for g homosexualy as a punchle, but for s time, "The One Wh the Lbian Weddg" was almost radil.

There's someone who tri to unrme my posn bee he found out I was gay, so he was actually gunng for my job. Ryan, a gay man wh cerebral palsy, stars on "Special.

Netflix's "Special" tells the story of a gay man wh cerebral palsy, givg voice to an extremely unrreprented inty — and starrg someone who unrstands first-hand, as a gay man wh cerebral O'Connell, who wrote the memoir the show is based on, told GQ that was "really hard" to sell the show to works.

"The show has also been celebrated for s realistic, relatable pictns of gay sex.

"It's time to show gay sex for what is, and if people have a problem wh that, then too bad, they need to unpack that wh their therapist, " O'Connell told GQ.