The Walkg Dead’s first gay male character: What you need to know – SheKnows

Contents:

• DID THE WALKG DEAD JT CAST ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE CHARACTER?
• DID THE WALKG DEAD JT CAST ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE CHARACTER?
• WHY WALKG DEAD CANCELED PLANS FOR ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• THE WALKG DEAD‘S FIRST GAY MALE CHARACTER: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• ‘THE WALKG DEAD’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• IS THIS THE WALKG DEAD'S NEW GAY CHARACTER?
• IS ‘THE WALKG DEAD’ IN DARYL DIXON GAY?
• ‘WALKG DEAD’ ACTOR DANIEL NEWMAN COM OUT AS GAY POWERFUL VIO: WATCH
• 'THE WALKG DEAD' CASUALLY CONFIRMS ANOTHER CHARACTER IS GAY
• THE WALKG DEAD STAR SAYS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN AARON AND J HAPPENED OFFSCREEN

DID THE WALKG DEAD JT CAST ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE CHARACTER?

He is a role mol, spiratn, and a mentor to other characters and a perfect example that prov to all the anti-LGBTQIA+ people that beg gay don’t mean you are a bad says:I would say whout doubt ’s Strand Fear. The Walkg Dead is takg aim at homophobia, as well as a small, but vol segment of viewers rpond negatively to the cln of a gay uple the sp-off seri The Walkg Dead: World Beyond, the anchise rpond om s official Twter acunt. ”Jelani Allad and Ni Tortorella portray a gay uple 'The Walkg Dead: World Beyond' (Photo Cred: Mall Polay/AMC)Premierg last October, World Beyond was a teen-centric variatn on The Walkg Dead, followg four adolcents who are among the first generatn to grow up a world populated by bra-eatg monsters.

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DID THE WALKG DEAD JT CAST ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE CHARACTER?

Wh the bate over Daryl Dixon's sexualy fally over, The Walkg Dead has yet to troduce an openly gay male character to s st. But durg a recent episo of Talkg Dead, Robert Kirkman -- who created The Walkg Dead ics and serv as an executive producer on the TV seri -- revealed that a proment gay male character om the source material will make an appearance on the show the send half of Season other 15 Netflix origal seri you should be watchgI thk we found him.

WHY WALKG DEAD CANCELED PLANS FOR ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

And though his role is beg kept secret as of now, THR speculat that Marquand will play Aaron, a gay rint of the Alexandria Safe-Zone. Before Aaron or Pl "J" Monroe me to the picture, The Walkg Dead was set to troduce s first gay character much earlier the story.

THE WALKG DEAD‘S FIRST GAY MALE CHARACTER: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The seri never strayed away om s diversy, gog on to troduce several gay survivors who would quickly go on to bee fan favor, but seri -creator and wrer Robert Kirkman planned an earlier troductn for the seri' leap to diverse new characters. The first openly gay character troduced wh The Walkg Dead ic seri is Aaron, an experienced recer for Virgia's Alexandria Safe Zone muny. It's nearly two years later when the ic troduc yet another major gay character Pl "J" Monroe.

The letters pag of The Walkg Dead Deluxe #50 reveal exactly who Kirkman tend to have as the seri' first major gay survivor, and 's none other than The Governor's former litenant, Martez. In discsg his cisn to scrap the reveal that Martez was gay, Kirkman mented, "I remembered that I was planng to have Rick beat him to ath—then I thought, probably not the bt thg to do wh your first proment gay character. The Walkg Dead Was Wise To Change Its First Openly Gay Character.

Martez beg troduced as the first openly gay character, only to have himself beaten by Rick a few issu later would have drastilly taken away the momentum that Kirkman had planned wh the reveal. Future gay characters like Pl Monroe are not only pable of handg themselv but n be tsted nfidant and close iends to Rick throughout the remar of the seri.

‘THE WALKG DEAD’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY

It's poetic that two of the seri' most fan-favore and perseverg gay characters, Pl and Aaron, would end the seri as lovers. After Robert Kirkman dropped hts on The Talkg Dead that the show would be troducg s first gay male character, fans have been wag for to happen and looks like fally has. His name is Aaron and, if the ic books are anythg to go by, he is that gay character fans have been wag for.

The Walkg Dead actor Daniel Newman has e out as gay.

When a young woman at the centre thanked him for supportg the LGBTQ muny, prumg the actor was heterosexual, Newman rrected her by sayg he is gay. Earlier this month, was nfirmed that one of The Walkg Dead‘s ma characters is gay.

IS THIS THE WALKG DEAD'S NEW GAY CHARACTER?

AMC's The Walkg Dead troduced s first gay uple, and wh them, s first gay kiss. Details on his role are beg kept unr wraps—par for the urse when to The Walkg Dead—but mors and statements om ic seri -creator and show executive producer Robert Kirkman dite Marquand uld be playg Aaron, a gay character who also appears the Image ic books. He would be the show's first major gay character.

They were furthered by Res who discsed playg the character as "prison gay" and by the show's executive producer and shownner Stt Gimple who dited a gay character would be g to the seri. "I do have to clear somethg up, though: the letter lumn of the ic book that I do, I mentned that there was a possibily early on about makg Daryl Dixon's character gay…It ed que a hubbub onle and I jt wanted to clarify that the possibily is there and that I would have been fe wh , the work would have been fe wh , but we ultimately didn't do that. As a rult, many viewers have scratched their heads for years and wonred if Daryl is gay — spe a strong majory of the fanbase suggtg that Daryl and Carol (Melissa McBri) should bee an em.

In fact, Kirkman tailed that the origal plans were for Dixon to be gay, but simply never happened. On that same note, Res simultaneoly exprsed that he “isn’t aaid” to portray Daryl as a gay character and that he would happily work wh whatever material the wrers gave him.

IS ‘THE WALKG DEAD’ IN DARYL DIXON GAY?

So while Dixon isn’t currently gay nonilly, that don’t mean that plans won’t soon change down the le as the character’s story ntu to expand the latt pulse-poundg seri.

Daniel Newman, who plays Daniel, a member of The Kgdom on The Walkg Dead and has also had rol The Vampire Diari, Hero, Homeland, One Tree Hill, Drop Dead Diva, and 7th Heaven, me out as gay a vio after postg to Twter on Thursday night. When he told her that he was gay, she said, “Why have you never said that publicly before? I grew up an Irish Catholic fay, a farm town Geia the South, and wasn't even about homophobia or anythg; you jt keep your private life private.

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‘WALKG DEAD’ ACTOR DANIEL NEWMAN COM OUT AS GAY POWERFUL VIO: WATCH

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'THE WALKG DEAD' CASUALLY CONFIRMS ANOTHER CHARACTER IS GAY

— Sue (@walkgkeacher) March 20, 2017#TheWalkgDead JESUS CAME OUT AS GAY ON A SUNDAY HAVE A BLESSED DAY— eri (@erirxnee) March 20, 2017#TheWalkgDeadj: *reveals he's gay*daryl/j shippers: — emma (@stuffxthangs) March 20, 2017When J said "Boyiends" — Daryl Dixon (@BAMFDarylDixon_) March 20, 2017YES! THEY FINALLY MADE JESUS GAY OFFICIAL!!????????????

All the good on are eher taken or gay— marah sercier (@sarah_mercier91) March 20, 2017J is gay, which only go to prove that all the good guys on this show are gay or ad. Me: "The good on are always gay!

THE WALKG DEAD STAR SAYS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN AARON AND J HAPPENED OFFSCREEN

I wouldn't hate that #TheWalkgDead— Jen Lei (@Jen_Lei) March 20, 2017Me @ J/Maggie/Sasha — •Amber• (@papatwd) March 20, 2017#TheWalkgDead 3 gay men on the good si.