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Contents:
- 'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
- IS THE JUBILEE 2025 LOGO 'GAY' SPIRED?
- GUS WHO'S GAY HIP-HOP
'EMPIRE' STAR JSIE SMOLLET NFIRMS HE'S GAY
The actor — whose character Jamal recently me out as gay — ma an appearance on The Ellen DeGener Show to talk about the h Fox drama but cled to discs his personal life or relatnship stat. GAY/LESBIAN. 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 fact that the logo the rabow lors and was chosen June – a month the prs dit to homosexuals – cl to ask whether or not was chosen as an direct homage to the homosexual movement.
Given the sndalo support that Francis and the Vatin has nstantly offered the homosexual movement, the least we n say is that the choice of this logo is very spic. Terrance Dean, thor of the new memoir Hidg Hip Hop: On the Down Low the Entertament Indtry — om Mic to Hollywood has had celebry blogs a mi-enzy sce Simon and Schter announced last year that he would release a book dishg about closeted gays the entertament dtry. n-s — often timate — wh famo gay men hidg out the film, televisn and mic worlds.
IS THE JUBILEE 2025 LOGO 'GAY' SPIRED?
I wrote wh the tentn of hopg to provi a voice for not only myself but a lot of people who are the dtry or are stgglg wh their sexualy but also those people who are down-low men or gay men who are lookg to get to the bs and they n't. There's down-low, there's down-low gay and there's gay. What I nsir to be the closet is someone who I would ll a down-low gay man.
He has relatnships wh both men and women but he would never intify his sexualy as that of a gay man bee he don't see the act of what he's dog as that of beg gay. So he don't see himself as beg gay. If you ask him, he would never adm to beg gay.
In the book you suggt that whe gays are more accepted than gays of lor the dtry, so what impact has that had on you? I thk the bs has now bee more receptive bee there is an abundance of gay men the dtry, and jt seems to be a natural place for gays for a number of reasons: 's a very creative atmosphere, 's a very eeg atmosphere, 's a very open and liberal atmosphere.
GUS WHO'S GAY HIP-HOP
Even if [a person] is not gay, but bee a iend is, that person will stop associatg wh them bee they don't want people to thk that's what they do. You make lots of referenc to how you didn't really qutn your sexualy until after you were molted, so what would you say to those who thk that beg gay is a choice?
I ed to thk like that until I started meetg more and more gay men and havg real, tense dialogue wh them and I realized that they were naturally born that way, they had no sire to be wh a woman, they always knew that they were attracted to men.