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Came out as gay in the early 90s then made all the evidence disappear? (Blind Item)

posted 3 years ago by BigMom (2018)
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A Brief Foray - A Johnny$ Blind: Setting: High School classrooms across America, Fall 1990 - Spring of 1991: Channel One News was a paid advertising program marketed at public schools. In exchange for TVs in every classrooms, schools would air Channel One's 20 minute news program every morning, which also featured heavy advertisements. High school students were very surprised when the daily "news" reported a story about a then A-list rapper and aspiring TV actor who announced he was gay. The report contained a short video of the rapper/actor stating he was gay to an interviewer. Given the culture at the time, this admission was extremely dangerous for the actor/rapper's career. National and local news outlets, both print and broadcast, also ran stories on this admission. Within 48 hours, the rapper/actor reversed course. He stated he had misunderstood the question. The story soon died down, and he grew in popularity. Any evidence of his brief time out of the closet is hard to find. You won't find the news articles on the internet, nor the interview on YouTube. This may be due to his alleged affiliation with the cult which can make things (and people) disappear. Will Smith/Scientology (In 1991 Will Smith Was Caught Making Fun of a Bald Celebrity) (Alexis Arquette calls out Will and Jada Pinkett Smith as ‘gay hypocrites' in detailed Facebook post alleging Will's first wife left him 'after walking in on him and another man')

[–] Crocodile (3127) 3 years ago

Scientology is surely very powerful

[–] Cognoscente (2642) 3 years ago

He played a gay guy in Six Degrees of Separation.

[–] AP (5288) 3 years ago

Actors play different characters. That’s not that surprising.

[–] Cognoscente (2642) 3 years ago

True, I'm just putting it out there.

[–] Keelai (34858) 3 years ago

His acting was cringeworthy. It was obvious that he was very uncomfortable playing a gay guy.

[–] ChipDouglas (1607) 3 years ago

maybe he was uncomfortable acting openly gay

[–] Keelai (34858) 3 years ago

He shouldn't have taken a gay role.

[–] TandyMan (11096) 3 years ago

I think Will is gay and has spent his entire life playing straight, not even having closet gay liaisons on the side. He's super miserable.

[–] AP (5288) 3 years ago

All the proof we have to go on is a blog that doesn’t link to any sources but has weird links to unrelated tabloid stories. I honestly don’t care if Will is gay and in the closet. That’s his business to deal with.

[–] JBran (1658) 3 years ago

He has kids. So obviously not gay.

At best you can claim he is bi-sexual.

[–] kungfulord (957) 3 years ago

I dont think this dude is gay but having children is not proof of he not being gay, I suppose gay dudes also want to have childrens and be parents and he being a public figure adopting as a single parent would track to much attention, so is logic why if he was gay he would choose to married and have a more traditional family.