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- EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
- EMPIRE 'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
- EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
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Unr this bric, the lik of which is ed by GLAAD and other observers to judge the media, any profsedly gay character (who is not problematilly tragic or villao) is a sign of progrs, regardls of how much or ltle that gayns flects the material of the show.
EMPIRE 'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
What if we judged the gay bona fis of a show not only on whether queer people are prent somewhere s narrative universe, but also—and pecially—on how creatively that prence to lor or enhance the story’s basic amework?
EMPIRE'S GAY SON IS THE SHOW'S GREATT ASSET
Her path to that reclamatn is through managg the gay one, Jamal (Jsie Smollett), of whom (spe her referrg to him as a fag, sissy, and queen over the urse of the episo) she is a voted advote and fan. His gayns will mark him as threateng, weak, or merely alien the mil culture which she wants to make him a star; overg those prejudic is not the kd of thg wh which sensivy trag n really help.