The 'Te Blood' character played by late actor Nelsan Ellis was revelatory for me, a gay black boy growg up the heart of the Amerin South.
Contents:
- NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- GAYT PLAC IN LOUISIANA FOR 2020
- TE BLOOD'S LAFAYETTE SLAYS GAY STEREOTYP
- 15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS
- LAFAYETTE GAY BARS
NELSAN ELLIS (LAFAYETTE) TALKS ‘TE BLOOD,’ GAY MARRIAGE, TYLER PERRY
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. * lafayette gay in real life *
Therefore, even if Lafayette was LGBT+, is likely he was not gay.
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
* lafayette gay in real life *
Haton’s grandson Allan McLane Haton lled them “the gay tr. What the “gay tr” really seems to reprent is not polyamory but queer kship.
“15 Gay Foundg Fathers and Mothers”, Jab Ogl,. Lafayette is a gay man who is flamboyant and egreg but at the same time isn’t stereotypil.
Here, he tells VIBE how he brought Lafayette to life, what the gay muny thks about the character and how he plans to transn beyond his Te Blood role. So that stereotype you were playg mt have been a Queenie type of gay guy, huh?
GAYT PLAC IN LOUISIANA FOR 2020
A primer on the gay nightlife scene Lafayette, Louisiana, pl LGBTQ-iendly loung, rtrants, and ffeeho the area." emprop="scriptn * lafayette gay in real life *
What’s been the feedback om the gay muny? I don’t thk ’s a reflectn of the gay muny that’s jt Lafayette.
But this is jt om what I hear, I haven’t really spoken to the gay muny outsi him [Lghs].
But then aga, I do play a gay character. I don’t answer that qutn, “Are you gay or not, ” when down to dtry people. Zoolegers, which closed 2011, was the last gay bar Lafayette, stg downtown on Ma Street, where DT Kirby's is today.
TE BLOOD'S LAFAYETTE SLAYS GAY STEREOTYP
“The thg that’s unique about Col’s place that will be helpful for LGBT people is that they n actually go to a gay bar, ” Smh said. Gay men have always been part of the Amerin ary. In an era before gay marriage or open pri, ary men fell love, formed passnate iendships and had same-sex enunters.
15 GAY FOUNDG FATHERS AND MOTHERS
But the se of one of the ary’s foundg hero, homosexualy was always part of the story.
Historians also thk he was homosexual—and served as an openly gay man the ary at a time when sex between men was punished as a crime. He also downplayed mors that the baron had been dismissed om the Pssian ary for homosexualy. But he was gay, and homosexualy was viewed as a crimal aberratn by many of his peers.
”After the war, von Stben legally adopted both men—a mon practice among gay men an age before same-sex marriage was legal.
LAFAYETTE GAY BARS
John Mulligan, who was also gay, served as von Stben’s secretary and is thought to have had a relatnship wh the baron.