Brooklyn nine nine were not gay
*Includes Spoilers and Plot Ideas
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is not an antique show nor is a new one, It first aired in 2013 and is relatively humorous. I’m not here to talk about the entirety of the show however, just the one of the main characters whom is represented with quite the amount of diversity.
Captain Raymond Holt, played by star Andre Braugher is quite the doozy of a nature, and especially when you look at everything he’s ever said. At the first glance he is a shadowy police office with a no non-sense attitude. However upon further glance it is more than that, Captain Holt is a complex individual, to elaborate upon this I must first outline his story alittle, this is his first captaincy for what has been described as a lifetime of remarkable service and duty, the cause for the lack of promotions and advancement through the ranks is due to the fact Captain Holt is not just black, he is also openly gay and according to his personality has been since 1987 which is during a moment when being lgbtq+ was not acceptable, and is happily married to his husband as successfully. Captain Holt’s image as a ethics is different than we generally look in a reveal, Holt’s character i
WARNING: Spoilers Ahead
Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine reached a milestone on Nov. 5: the airing of their 99th episode. And it certainly lived up to the hype. The biggest revelation from the episode was that Detective Rosa Diaz, one of the main characters, is attracted to both genders and is currently digital dating another woman (though it is not much of a surprise if you ask the die-hard fans of the show).
Rosa organism bisexual is something the show’s fans have been advocating for years, and the actress who plays Rosa, Stephanie Beatriz, has always wholeheartedly supported the idea. In fact, in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Beatriz said the following when asked where the idea of Rosa being bisexual originated from:
“I think I mentioned something. There’s a great episode (Season 1’s “The Vulture”) where Jake and Rosa mention Tonya Harding, and Rosa off the cuff says, ‘Yeah, she’s thick,’ as a compliment to Tonya. Ever since the episode, which was cute early on, I reflection, ‘Oh, Rosa is not heterosexual. She’s much more open to being bi or queer than I would have thought before.'”
There are so many things that make this recent storyline incredi
*Light spoilers for Season 5*
During the Season 5 premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, I was delightedly shocked hearing the following exchange between lead character, Jake Peralta, and the prison warden:
“Oh no. No, no, no, no, no. The only people less popular in here than cops are snitches.”
“Well, let’s be truthful, it’s not great for trans people in here.”
“That is so true.”
“I know.”
“They have such a difficult time.”
“It’s a problem.”
The writers didn’t have to incorporate this conversation, but I’m incredibly glad they did. They could have made a cheap joke about Orange Is The Modern Black or ended the exchange earlier, but they didn’t. They actively chose to draw attention to trans issues.
And this isn’t even the first second the show has discussed trans struggles. In the Season 4 premiere, Jake tells a tattoo creator about the movie Ace Ventura and its transphobia. It was the first time I’ve ever heard the actual synonyms “transphobic” on a television show before, and even though both of these references were small and casual, they st Despite winning a Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy—not to talk about a massive Super Bowl ad blitz—Fox’s freshman comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine is still suffering from mediocre ratings, garnering only 3.2 million same-day viewers for last Tuesday’s new episode.* Its Globes prevail over critical darlings Girls, Parks and Recreation, and Modern Familyshocked many in Hollywood. For Brooklyn’s gay fans, however, the award came as no surprise. These days, mainstream television shows regularly broach LGBTQ topics. ABC’s Modern Family gives viewers a glimpse into the intimate lives of delightfully flamboyant parents Mitch and Cam. HBO’s Looking somehoweschews any acknowledgement of advances in LGBTQ equality, presenting San Francisco as a dreary post-DOMA dystopia where gay men agonize more about foreskins than politics. Netflix brought trans issues to the mainstream with Laverne Cox’s brilliant portrayal of prisoner Sophia Burset in Orange Is the New Black. How could a traditional half-hour sitcom that plays favor a combination of The Officeand Hot Fuzzpossibly break novel ground among such company? Brooklyn Nine-Nine manages to addres Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a show that has been praised by both critics and fans as one that is not only hilarious, but progressive as well. It starts out with a squad of detectives who have to adjust to a modern Captain named Raymond Holt, who just so happens to be a queer black man. Jake Peralta—the Jewish protagonist whose only unsolvable mystery is how to grow up—butts heads with him almost immediately. The show goes through its classical sitcom scenarios as well as crime shenanigans and often surprising season finales as they find themselves in risky situations. What’s so unusual and surprising about this is show is how they deal with humor with such a diverse cast. When any of the characters joke about their ethnicity or their sexuality, it isn't aimed at the white and straight viewers and that makes a huge difference. For example, in one episode Holt talks about how he made a bad impression on his husband's parents by mistaking two different compositions for each other. When asked by Jake if that's really all it took for them not to have approved of the two of them, Holt clarifies that "they're gigantic ho
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