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JERROD CARMICHAEL OUT AS GAY HIS NEW EDY SPECIAL

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The acclaimed edian out as gay his new HBO special, “Rothaniel, ” a few years after he first referenced relatnships wh men a prev film for HBO. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFor years, gay male performers were left out of the edy landspe or tokenized wh .

BANAT NI JOEY SA MENT NI KABAYAN NOLI TUNGKOL SA KASAL NA MAE AT ARJO: ‘SA MGA UMEEPAL…NNANG NAGPLANO SA MENGGAY KA KAY EGAY!’

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“I remember Googlg gay ics and nothg g up, pecially gay Black ics, ” says Perks, whose blazgly funny stand-up work rang om sweet to goofy to rnchy. ’”Even as a kid, Perks uld vaguely perceive that gay entertaers were, certa other realms of pop culture, “havg a moment.

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Havg a moment, the late ’90s and early ghts, meant that, sudnly, a gay performer or character would appear a space that had been prevly domated by straight people — say, at the center of a TV s like “Will & Grace” or a stand-up special, or as the voice of reason to the leadg lady a romantic edy like “My Bt Friend’s Weddg” — and everyone uld appld and say, “We solved !

” It was a pop-cultural phenomenon that started to surface when Perks, who’s 31, and other gay edians of his generatn were middle school.

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Instead, emergg gay edians n enter a large, plited and thrivg queer universe. Gay edy isn’t niche ’s all changed so fast that at one pot, while he’s discsg a sketch about rporate sponsorship of gay pri paras that he did wh Lil Nas X last May, Yang, 31, tch himself and says, lghg, “Why am I talkg about this the past tense, like ’s another era? (The podst format, which gay obssns n be discsed and nstcted at length, or which the hetero world n be filtered through gay sensibili, as is on Sam Taggart and Gee Civeris’s “StraightLab, ” has bee fertile turf for emergg edy stars.

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