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Commentator Calls Tyler Perry HOMOPHOBIC!!

Tyler Perrys Gay Problem

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Tyler Perrys Why Did I Get Married Too? shocked absolutely no one by placing a strong #2 in last weekend's box office battle with a $30 million dollar take, but what was shocking and surprising to me was one very blatantly homophobic scene in the movie, as well asthe history of stereotypically homophobic elements to Perry's movies that havent yet been thoroughly examined.

If you havent seen the movie and plan to, be warned there are heavy spoilers ahead.

The last third of the movie finds Janet Jacksons Dr. Particia Agnew and her husband Gavin (Malik Yoba) engaged in a bitter divorce that gets increasingly ugly due to his battle for half of the royalties from her book sales.

In retaliation, she attempts to humiliate him by bringing an enormous birthday cake to his office and presenting it to him and all of his coworkers filled not with a stripper, but with a flamboyantly gay black man dressed in a miniskirt and neon-colored wig who pops out of the cake in a spray of glitter and gyrates suggestively while Its Raining Men plays in the background.

Im not making this up, Tyler Perry did. The point of contention here is not that the gay man in question is in drag or effeminate, but that he is used as an over the top spectacle to challenge the masculinity of a character perceived as acting outside of masculine norms by claiming entitlement to his wifes earnings.

Janet Jackson and Malik Yoba in Why Did I Get Married Too?
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What makes a bad situation even worse is that during this mans performance, Jacksons character is screaming a litany of homophobic remarks toward her husband along the lines of(and Im paraphrasing only slightly) If you want to be a b!$%h, here you go! and Heres your b!$%h!

So, for all of us who are keeping score, gay men are: outrageously feminine, objects of scorn and ridicule for respectable heterosexuals, and freaks that can be used to make an embar****ing public spectacle out of ones enemy. Yep, got it.

Due to a well-documented history of general awesomeness surrounding gay folks, Im inclined to give Ms. Jackson a pass on this, but Mr. Perry gets no such luck. In fact, this is only the latest example of homophobia Ive noticed in his movies.

The original Why Did I Get Married was a similar-sized box-office hit that also had its own share of questionable portrayals of gays. In a very brief scene near the beginning, a flamboyant older white gay couple (dressed in pink, no less) is seen giving attitude to Tasha Smiths firecracker of a character Angela. Her reaction to the two, while not as blatantly homophobic as the treatment of the lone gay presence onscreen in the sequel, portrays yet another takedown of obviously gay characters for the desired approval of Tyler Perrys predominantly African-American, churchgoing audience.

But Perry can be an equal opportunity offender. His movie Madea Goes to Jail featured - what else - a big, butch, tattooed lesbian hell bent on claiming the pretty young inmate and prostitute played by Cosby kid Keisha Knight Pulliam.Ill leave the irony of a man who made his fortune by dressing in drag trading in offensive images of gays in his movies up to others comment on.

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What I will say is that once is curious, twice is upsetting, but three times borders on pathological, and it leads one to wonder why Perry feels the need to include such deeply negative and stereotypical images of gays in his movies.



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dem cayn blame deh man if he nuh inna dem luu ting but same time he luv cross dress too, so once again a dem business dat....

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america full a ****cck yo
den dem like talk bout freedom of speach....if a b*****yman a say someting outrageous dem give a blind eye to it.........one ****ccked up system dem live inna .

if tyler a cross dress i guess it was just for the hustle (for god sakes the man was homeless and thats where he made most money from) but dem broke days deh done now so him fe bun de ff@#$gggot dem freely.

hmm then again i wouldnt be surprised if me hear dem lock him up like buju sometime soon cause dem ****ccking louses done infultrate high up in the system

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If a man can cross dress on public TV ....HE IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC, simple, point blank

-- Edited by Mafo on Sunday 11th of April 2010 11:00:07 PM

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