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CASE OF THE HUNKY COP AND GAY MAN
It had all the great people , and was, like, we had the “black lawyer, ” the “gay lawyer, ” the this lawyer, the that lawyer… But the show self was jt setup, punchle, setup, punchle. You know, the funny thg was, I was playg the “gay lawyer, ” and they never any way, shape, or form wrote to the gayns of him. So Eddie Murphy, the actor, havg some vilent homophobic attus durg this time is pretty well known, you n jt watch his stand up movi Delir and Raw.
I thk however, a batn of his homophobic edy, 80's trop and the tricky racial polics of the time bed to make a character that is weirdly gay iendly subtext. Juvenile bro sh y but that's jt first thg we see and later he meets two explicly gay men he stantly has a rapport wh, Bronson Pchot's Serge and Damon Wayon's buffet attendant. The only part of the movie where Axel shows any heterosexual tert women is when he drags the other officers to a strip club and there he kd of acts more like a gay man enjoyg the mic and dancg and tellg them they should be gettg erect.
Most certaly not but is another way to see the movie and at least mak him pretendg to be a gay man tellg people he gave the villa herp ls gross. Flash-forward to 2020, though, and the scene hasn’t aged well, relyg on outdated gay stereotyp and an STD punchle that’s unfortably remiscent of some the now-famo AIDS jok that Murphy worked to his edy special Delir, which was released the year before Beverly Hills Cop h ANGELES - DECEMBER 5: The movie "Beverly Hills Cop", directed by Mart Brt.