The Food and Dg Admistratn has dropped all rtrictns specific to gay and bisexual men donatg blood.
Contents:
- 'TE BLOOD' ACTOR LE GRIM QU OVER GAY ROLE (REPORT)
- 'TE BLOOD' ACTOR NELSAN ELLIS: FORMER STAR QU BEE HE DIDN'T 'WANT TO PLAY A GAY PART'
- LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
- SPOILER ALERT: TE BLOOD TURNS STRAIGHT CHARACTER GAY… BUT WHICH ONE?
- FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- 'TE BLOOD' ACTOR QU SHOW OVER GAY CONTENT
- NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
- DID LE GRIM NOT WANT TO PLAY A GAY GUY ON 'TE BLOOD'?
'TE BLOOD' ACTOR LE GRIM QU OVER GAY ROLE (REPORT)
'Te Blood' Actor Le Grim Qu Over Gay Role * gay guy true blood *
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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. ” Ellis played Lafayette Reynolds, a gay ok, through the seven-season n of “Te Blood.
”Onle news se The Gr praised Ellis’s portrayal of Lafayette as one that “slays gay stereotyp. Take a look back at some of the gay sex dreams that have appeared on Te Blood, which, often feature Kwanten as the betiful season 6, Jason Stackhoe shared a sexy dream sequence after drkg the vae of the vampire-fairy Warlow, played by Rob Kazsky. Earlier the show's n, Jason received a surprise bedfellow the form of Eddie, a middle-aged gay vampire.
'TE BLOOD' ACTOR NELSAN ELLIS: FORMER STAR QU BEE HE DIDN'T 'WANT TO PLAY A GAY PART'
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Now, a new report claims those "differenc" stemmed om a gay plotle. Buzzfeed reports that Grim -- who prevly played Jam, the vampire boyiend of Jsi (Deborah Ann Woll) -- qu bee the Season 7 script of the vampire-centric HBO show clud a romance between his character and the openly gay Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis). But Grim reportedly qu December when he found out Kent was bisexual and startg a romantic relatnship wh a gay character the seventh and fal Nelsan Ellis, the actor who plays Kent’s gay lover on the show, is speakg up -- and he’s not happy.
LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
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“You qu your job bee you don’t want to play a gay part?
You make a big statement when you go, ‘I don’t want to play this part bee ’s gay, ” Ellis told New York Magaze followg the airg this week of his character’s sex scene wh the new actor playg Kent. ”Yet crics argue that Grim should have known what he was gettg to when he ially signed the dotted le, given that the supernatural drama – created by the openly gay Alan Ball and produced by his pany njunctn wh HBO – routely ph the envelope when to relatnships.
“It’s unfortunate that an actor today would feel unfortable playg gay, pecially on a program that has always put LGBT characters ont and center, ” Stacy Lambe, Associate Edor for the gay and lbian-foced OUT Magaze said. But there is one easily implementable solutn to the natnal blood-supply shortage that’s been available for years and uld be a lifele: allowg gay and bisexual men to donate eely.
SPOILER ALERT: TE BLOOD TURNS STRAIGHT CHARACTER GAY… BUT WHICH ONE?
Today celebry gossip: Te Blood's Le Grim was allegedly rest after refg to play gay, Jt Bieber's beg sued aga, and Channg Tatum is NOT divorcg Jenna Dewan-Tatum. At the time of last Sunday's season premiere of Te Blood—s last ever—the most ntroversial thg about the episo seemed to be viewers' abily to ci if was brilliant or horrible. * gay guy true blood *
S., gay and bisexual men (often referred to as MSM, or “men who have sex wh men”) are not allowed to give blood if they’ve had sex wh another man the past three months.
“It is my opn that we ntue to have a real problem wh laws and regulatns based on fear rather than science, ” she ntuatn of a MSM-specific barrier to givg is not only limg the blood supply, ’s unnecsary and “rooted homophobia, ” explas Perry N. ”In 2015, theFDA loosened s rtrictn, permtg gay and bisexual men to donate blood as long as they hadn’t had sex wh another man the past year.
FDA DROPS BLOOD DONATN RTRICTNS SPECIFIC TO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
Part of Te Blood’s appeal is that the st portrays their characters so well that ’s hard to believe they aren’t real. Enter Lafayette, played by Nelsan Ellis. Lafayette is a gay man who is flamboyant and egreg but at the same time isn’t stereotypil. * gay guy true blood *
For example, if you’re a gay man who wears ndoms durg sex, you lim your risk of ntractg HIV. Same go for gay men who are married or a long-term monogamo relatnship. Conducted tanm wh the natn’s largt blood centers—the Amerin Red Cross, Valant, and OneBlood—the rearch effort will survey 2, 000 gay and bisexual men across the untry between the ag of 18 and 30 who have had sex wh at least one man the past three months.
”The policy change uld have a signifint posive effect on the mental health of gay and bisexual men, too. It also puts gay and bisexual men at higher risk for acquirg HIV over time. “Social and stctural factors that e gay men to feel othered e them to engage risky sexual behavr, ” Halkis says.
So a ban like this isn’t jt harmful to the Amerin public; “’s credibly harmful to the gay muny, both emotnally and physilly. The first step is to sign GLAAD’s petn at You then n—and should—te those around you, “sce many people, cludg gay and bi men, don’t know that this ban exists, ” adds Lasky. Let them know you don’t support discrimatory practic that ban gay and bisexual men om dog their civic duty.
'TE BLOOD' ACTOR QU SHOW OVER GAY CONTENT
Le Grim reportedly left 'Te Blood' bee he was unfortable wh possible gay sex scen. * gay guy true blood *
And, of urse, there’s rint bisexual Pam and openly gay Lafayette, the latter of whom is now settled down wh J.
NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
The rt of n s back and bge-watch Te Blood, Teen Wolf, and Amerin Horror before the, there was Dante's Cove -- a full-on gay, steamy, wchy drama om the early 2000s (produced by the same pany that owns The Advote).
To spire you, we've llected a plete list of TV's hottt supernatural gay sex scen. (Nearly all the homoerotic scen the show were dream sequenc).
Evan Peters's crazy gay lnaire and his boy toy om Amerin Horror Story: Freak Show. In season 6 of the vampire melodrama, Jason Stackhoe had (yet another) homoerotic daydream -- this one about the vampire-fairy Warlow (Rob Kazsky). An tense homoerotic shavg scene wh a straight razor.
DID LE GRIM NOT WANT TO PLAY A GAY GUY ON 'TE BLOOD'?
Te Blood utilized "blood nnectns" to get more than a few homoerotic moments out of otherwise hetero characters.
But the ultimate one me Jason Stackhoe's dream (after fallg asleep a church pew) about the vampire Eric Northman (Alexanr Skarsgard) -- nsired by many fans to be the hottt gay sex scene of the show's n. The long-awaed gay anythg on Teen Wolf that fally happened wh Danny and Ethan. Remember when gay vampire Lafayette got Jason to strip dance on mera?
Eric (Alexanr Skarsgard) tells Talbot to turn over and mounts him the show's rather talked-about gay revenge murr. Wh so many bad exampl of gay relatnships on TV, both supernatural fare and otherwise, Tara and Willow's relatnship is seen by many as the one that got right.