Damon Wayans Jr. Addrs Old, Anti-Gay Tweets as CW Preps His New, Queer Pilot | Vany Fair

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• DAMON WAYANS JR. ADDRS OLD, ANTI-GAY TWEETS AS CW PREPS HIS NEW, QUEER PILOT“WHEN I TWEETED THOSE MENTS, ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, I WAS UNAWARE OF THE EMOTNAL IMPACT THEY ULD HAVE,” WAYANS SAID A STATEMENT. “I AM NOT EXCG THAT BEHAVR, BUT THAT IS NOT WHO I AM TODAY.”BY LRA BRADLEYFEBARY 4, 2019BY KEV WTER/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJT A UPLE MONTHS AFTER KEV HART CID HE WOULD RATHER RELQUISH HIS TLE AS OSR HOST THAN APOLOGIZE FOR HIS PAST HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS, DAMON WAYANS JR. HAS BEEN FORCED TO ADDRS HIS OWN PAST ANTI-L.G.B.T.Q. REMARKS. AS OUT REPORTS, THE EDIAN HAS A HISTORY OF SUCH MENTS, WHICH CLUS THE EQUENT E OF THE WORD “TRANNY” AND THE PHRASE “NO HOMO.” TO MAKE MATTERS MORE PLITED, THE CW ALSO JT ORRED A PILOT ABOUT A GENR-NONNFORMG PROTAGONIST—WH WAYANS ON BOARD AS AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER.IN A STATEMENT, WAYANS TOLD OUT, “WHEN I WAS A YOUNG IC TRYG TO FD MY VOICE, I MA SOME IMMATURE AND HURTFUL TWEETS THAT I EPLY REGRET AT THE EXPENSE OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. WHEN I TWEETED THOSE MENTS, ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, I WAS UNAWARE OF THE EMOTNAL IMPACT THEY ULD HAVE.”“I AM NOT EXCG THAT BEHAVR,” WAYANS NTUED, “BUT THAT IS NOT WHO I AM TODAY. SOCIETY EVOLVED AND SO HAVE I AND IS SOMETHG I WILL NTUE TO DO BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY. CONTUED LEARNG, ACCEPTANCE AND THOUGHTFUL WORDS ARE ALL IMPORTANT ACTNS THAT WILL HELP MAKE SOCIETY A KR AND SAFER PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE. YOU KNOW BETTER, YOU DO BETTER.”EARLY LAST DECEMBER, SOON AFTER HART WAS ANNOUNCED AS THIS YEAR’S OSR HOST, HIS PAST HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS RURFACED. RATHER THAN APOLOGIZE FOR THE REMARKS, HART CID TO ABDITE THE POSN OF M.C.—THOUGH HE DID EVENTUALLY ISSUE A MEA CULPA ON TWTER: “I SCERELY APOLOGIZE TO THE LGBTQ MUNY FOR MY SENSIVE WORDS OM MY PAST. I’M SORRY THAT I HURT PEOPLE . . . I AM EVOLVG AND WANT TO NTUE TO DO SO,” HE WROTE AS HE STEPPED DOWN OM THE OSRS.HART LATER SISTED TO ELLEN DEGENER THAT HE’D ALREADY APOLOGIZED FOR THE OLD JOK YEARS AGO, DRAWG SUPPORT OM THE ELLEN HOST, WHO TRIED TO GET HIM RESTATED AS HOST. THE NVERSATN SPARKED BACKLASH FOR DEGENER, WHOSE CISN TO ADVOTE FOR HART MA SOME WONR IF SHE MAY ACTUALLY BE AS OUT OF TOUCH AS HER RECENT EDY SPECIAL HUMOROLY SUGGTED SHE IS. WHEN JSIE SMOLLETT WAS BTALLY ATTACKED LAST WEEK, ONLOOKERS POTED OUT THAT VLENCE LIKE THIS IS PRECISELY THE REASON THAT JOK LIKE HART’S SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED OUT OF HAND. (HART HAD SAID, AMONG OTHER THGS, THAT HE WOULD BEAT HIS SON IF HE TURNED OUT TO BE GAY.)WAYANS HAS ADOPTED A MORE NTRE APPROACH THAN HART DID, EVEN IF HIS STATEMENT STOPS SHORT OF GIVG A DIRECT APOLOGY. YOUTUBER AND TRANS-RIGHTS ACTIVIST KAT BLAQUE ALSO SAID ON SUNDAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN WAYANS TELLG TRANSPHOBIC JOK AROUND FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO AT THE LGH FACTORY LOS ANGEL. WHEN REACHED BY EMAIL, REPRENTATIVE FOR WAYANS SAID THAT DAMON WAYANS JR. HAS NOT PERFORMED AT THE LGH FACTORY OVER A YEAR, MAYBE TWO, AND NOTED THAT DAMON SR. NO LONGER PERFORMS STAND-UP EDY.WAYANS’S NEW CW SHOW, GLAMORO, OM HIS PRODUCTN SHGLE TWO SHAK, AND FOLLOWS A GENR-NONNFORMG HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATE WHOSE FIRST POST-GRAD TERNSHIP WDS UP BEG WH A SMETICS PANY THEY ONCE PUBLICLY DISSED ON YOUTUBE. WAYANS NCLUD HIS STATEMENT BY WRG, “I AM VERY PROUD OF THE WORK WE ARE DOG AT TWO SHAK ENTERTAMENT. THE PANY WAS FOUND WH THE MISSN OF WORKG WH DIVERSE VOIC, BOTH ONT AND BEHD THE MERA. WHEN GLAMORO WAS PCHED TO I THOUGHT WAS BRILLIANT, HEARTWARMG AND IMPORTANT. WE WILL NTUE TO BE MTED TO PURSUG PROTAGONISTS WHO DON’T TRADNALLY GET TO BE AT THE CENTER OF A SHOW AND BRGG THEIR STORI TO THE SCREEN.”A REPRENTATIVE FOR THE CW DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND TO V.F.’S REQUT FOR MENT.THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— OUR CRIC ON WHY MOVI ARE STILL MAGIC— ALAN ALDA JT WANTS TO HAVE A GOOD NVERSATN— FORMER TMP ZELIG HOPE HICKS BEGS HER SEND ACT ON THE WT COAST— SEE AN EXCLIVE PREVIEW OF QUENT TARANTO’S NTH FILM— YOUR PASSPORT TO VANY FAIR’S 25TH HOLLYWOOD ISSUE WH SAOIRSE RONAN, TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, CHADWICK BOSEMAN, AND MORELOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY
• COMEDIAN CHNTé WAYANS, NIECE TO WAYANS BROTHERS, TALKS STGGLE OF BEG OPENLY GAY HOLLYWOOD
• IS DAMON WAYANS JR. GAY?

DAMON WAYANS JR. ADDRS OLD, ANTI-GAY TWEETS AS CW PREPS HIS NEW, QUEER PILOT“WHEN I TWEETED THOSE MENTS, ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, I WAS UNAWARE OF THE EMOTNAL IMPACT THEY ULD HAVE,” WAYANS SAID A STATEMENT. “I AM NOT EXCG THAT BEHAVR, BUT THAT IS NOT WHO I AM TODAY.”BY LRA BRADLEYFEBARY 4, 2019BY KEV WTER/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJT A UPLE MONTHS AFTER KEV HART CID HE WOULD RATHER RELQUISH HIS TLE AS OSR HOST THAN APOLOGIZE FOR HIS PAST HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS, DAMON WAYANS JR. HAS BEEN FORCED TO ADDRS HIS OWN PAST ANTI-L.G.B.T.Q. REMARKS. AS OUT REPORTS, THE EDIAN HAS A HISTORY OF SUCH MENTS, WHICH CLUS THE EQUENT E OF THE WORD “TRANNY” AND THE PHRASE “NO HOMO.” TO MAKE MATTERS MORE PLITED, THE CW ALSO JT ORRED A PILOT ABOUT A GENR-NONNFORMG PROTAGONIST—WH WAYANS ON BOARD AS AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER.IN A STATEMENT, WAYANS TOLD OUT, “WHEN I WAS A YOUNG IC TRYG TO FD MY VOICE, I MA SOME IMMATURE AND HURTFUL TWEETS THAT I EPLY REGRET AT THE EXPENSE OF THE LGBTQ MUNY. WHEN I TWEETED THOSE MENTS, ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, I WAS UNAWARE OF THE EMOTNAL IMPACT THEY ULD HAVE.”“I AM NOT EXCG THAT BEHAVR,” WAYANS NTUED, “BUT THAT IS NOT WHO I AM TODAY. SOCIETY EVOLVED AND SO HAVE I AND IS SOMETHG I WILL NTUE TO DO BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY. CONTUED LEARNG, ACCEPTANCE AND THOUGHTFUL WORDS ARE ALL IMPORTANT ACTNS THAT WILL HELP MAKE SOCIETY A KR AND SAFER PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE. YOU KNOW BETTER, YOU DO BETTER.”EARLY LAST DECEMBER, SOON AFTER HART WAS ANNOUNCED AS THIS YEAR’S OSR HOST, HIS PAST HOMOPHOBIC TWEETS RURFACED. RATHER THAN APOLOGIZE FOR THE REMARKS, HART CID TO ABDITE THE POSN OF M.C.—THOUGH HE DID EVENTUALLY ISSUE A MEA CULPA ON TWTER: “I SCERELY APOLOGIZE TO THE LGBTQ MUNY FOR MY SENSIVE WORDS OM MY PAST. I’M SORRY THAT I HURT PEOPLE . . . I AM EVOLVG AND WANT TO NTUE TO DO SO,” HE WROTE AS HE STEPPED DOWN OM THE OSRS.HART LATER SISTED TO ELLEN DEGENER THAT HE’D ALREADY APOLOGIZED FOR THE OLD JOK YEARS AGO, DRAWG SUPPORT OM THE ELLEN HOST, WHO TRIED TO GET HIM RESTATED AS HOST. THE NVERSATN SPARKED BACKLASH FOR DEGENER, WHOSE CISN TO ADVOTE FOR HART MA SOME WONR IF SHE MAY ACTUALLY BE AS OUT OF TOUCH AS HER RECENT EDY SPECIAL HUMOROLY SUGGTED SHE IS. WHEN JSIE SMOLLETT WAS BTALLY ATTACKED LAST WEEK, ONLOOKERS POTED OUT THAT VLENCE LIKE THIS IS PRECISELY THE REASON THAT JOK LIKE HART’S SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED OUT OF HAND. (HART HAD SAID, AMONG OTHER THGS, THAT HE WOULD BEAT HIS SON IF HE TURNED OUT TO BE GAY.)WAYANS HAS ADOPTED A MORE NTRE APPROACH THAN HART DID, EVEN IF HIS STATEMENT STOPS SHORT OF GIVG A DIRECT APOLOGY. YOUTUBER AND TRANS-RIGHTS ACTIVIST KAT BLAQUE ALSO SAID ON SUNDAY THAT SHE HAD SEEN WAYANS TELLG TRANSPHOBIC JOK AROUND FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO AT THE LGH FACTORY LOS ANGEL. WHEN REACHED BY EMAIL, REPRENTATIVE FOR WAYANS SAID THAT DAMON WAYANS JR. HAS NOT PERFORMED AT THE LGH FACTORY OVER A YEAR, MAYBE TWO, AND NOTED THAT DAMON SR. NO LONGER PERFORMS STAND-UP EDY.WAYANS’S NEW CW SHOW, GLAMORO, OM HIS PRODUCTN SHGLE TWO SHAK, AND FOLLOWS A GENR-NONNFORMG HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATE WHOSE FIRST POST-GRAD TERNSHIP WDS UP BEG WH A SMETICS PANY THEY ONCE PUBLICLY DISSED ON YOUTUBE. WAYANS NCLUD HIS STATEMENT BY WRG, “I AM VERY PROUD OF THE WORK WE ARE DOG AT TWO SHAK ENTERTAMENT. THE PANY WAS FOUND WH THE MISSN OF WORKG WH DIVERSE VOIC, BOTH ONT AND BEHD THE MERA. WHEN GLAMORO WAS PCHED TO I THOUGHT WAS BRILLIANT, HEARTWARMG AND IMPORTANT. WE WILL NTUE TO BE MTED TO PURSUG PROTAGONISTS WHO DON’T TRADNALLY GET TO BE AT THE CENTER OF A SHOW AND BRGG THEIR STORI TO THE SCREEN.”A REPRENTATIVE FOR THE CW DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND TO V.F.’S REQUT FOR MENT.THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— OUR CRIC ON WHY MOVI ARE STILL MAGIC— ALAN ALDA JT WANTS TO HAVE A GOOD NVERSATN— FORMER TMP ZELIG HOPE HICKS BEGS HER SEND ACT ON THE WT COAST— SEE AN EXCLIVE PREVIEW OF QUENT TARANTO’S NTH FILM— YOUR PASSPORT TO VANY FAIR’S 25TH HOLLYWOOD ISSUE WH SAOIRSE RONAN, TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, CHADWICK BOSEMAN, AND MORELOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDLRA BRADLEY

Jt a uple months after Kev Hart cid he would rather relquish his tle as Osr host than apologize for his past homophobic tweets, Damon Wayans Jr. As Out reports, the edian has a history of such ments, which clus the equent e of the word “tranny” and the phrase “no homo. ”Early last December, soon after Hart was announced as this year’s Osr host, his past homophobic tweets rurfaced.

COMEDIAN CHNTé WAYANS, NIECE TO WAYANS BROTHERS, TALKS STGGLE OF BEG OPENLY GAY HOLLYWOOD

(Hart had said, among other thgs, that he would beat his son if he turned out to be gay. Wayans and Grier’s portrayal of two flamboyant gay men criqug var subjects was a lgh rt and a staple of the show.

Marlon and Damon Wayans' gay niece, Chnte Wayans reveals beg forced to be someone she's not jt to make as a edian. But that upled wh her openly gay stance mak the road to stardom a lot tougher for Chnte Wayans. It is the latter that is close to her heart havg been a victim of this stigma sce g out gay.

IS DAMON WAYANS JR. GAY?

“I get a lot of men, even the gay world, who tell me I should show a ltle cleavage, or maybe let my hair out or wear some heels.

Instead of stayg on the sil, Wayans played his p character as an obv and effemate gay stereotype when they aired the show on March 15, 1986. Is gay? Is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

In any se, celebri too often refe to talk about their private liv, so we never know if one is gay or straight.