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TE BLOOD “I FOUND YOU” EPISO FEATURED SURPRISE GAY SEX SCENE: GIFS

He was open and unapologetic about his love of sex and the male form while livg the ty fictnal town of Bon Temps, Louisiana — the type of place where ’s not necsarily safe to be gay, or black, and certaly not both at the same time.

As Lafayette, Ellis expand the untry’s llective imagatn of what a queer black man uld look, sound and act like, startg jt months before California passed Proposn 8, which banned same-sex marriage, and years before Print Barack Obama announced an “evolutn” his thkg about gay rights.

Williams) such a memorable part of The Wire — his gayns isn’t the fg feature of his character. He’s gay a way that feels unique to the projects of Baltimore. When first aired 2005, Noah’s Arc many ways felt like a black rponse to the overwhelmg whens of Showtime’s Amerin adaptatn of Queer as Folk, another landmark show that challenged what meant to see gay men on televisn.

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Noah’s Arc centered on a group of middle-class gay black men livg Los Angel.

AHEAD OF A ‘TE BLOOD’ REBOOT, LET’S LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE SERI’ INIC GAY MOMENTS

It was a way to say, “Hey, black people live gentrified gayborhoods and drk smopolans and battle HIV stigma too. I don’t answer that qutn — ‘Are you gay or not? Ne years after the last episo of The Wire aired, Williams is still sistg terviews that he’s more than jt Omar Ltle, spe a lany of rol, gay and straight, sce Omar buted.

Relled by many as talented and unrrated, Ellis beme a Te Blood fan-favore for his portrayal of the scene-stealg, gay short orr ok at Merlotte’s Bar the fictnal Louisiana town. ” Ellis’s character was ld for breakg stereotyp of gay men. "Yet over s seven seasons the seri also went the extra e by cludg many gay, lbian, and bisexual characters who were jt as diverse, dangero, and memorable as Bon Temps' other rints.

” Ellis played Lafayette Reynolds, a gay ok, through the seven-season n of “Te Blood.

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