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- EMPIRE SEASON 2: MEN AT WORK STAR TO RECUR AS OBSSIVE GAY PHOTOG
- IS EMPIRE 'TOO GAY'? HERE IS HOW ONE CAST MEMBER REACTED
EMPIRE SEASON 2: MEN AT WORK STAR TO RECUR AS OBSSIVE GAY PHOTOG
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IS EMPIRE 'TOO GAY'? HERE IS HOW ONE CAST MEMBER REACTED
Are some of those makg roads pop and rock mic, hip-hop particular lags behd acts breakg to the this time last year I wrote about FX’s “Chozen, ” an animated edy about a gay whe rapper that uld have been a provotive skewerg of the genre’s misogynist and homophobic ways. Instead, offered a lazy array of tired and sophomoric gay jok and lasted one that there hasn’t been progrs elsewhere.