When the actor, now starring in Disney+'s 'Doogie Kamealohoa, M.D.,' landed a judging spot on the reality show, it was a dream come true — until a cadre of hateful fans turned it into a nightmare: 'I had never experienced hate from my own community.'
fans the world over, having appeared a handful of times as a guest judge on VH1’s. “There’s something about drag that I’ve always been so enamored by,” he says. “Drag is magic.”
For a show all about acceptance and inclusivity — about spotlighting queerness and toasting life’s outcasts and oddballs —To be sure, they are in the minority offans. But en masse their voices can be deafening, a faceless mob of scolds and trolls whose targeted attacks — typically directed at drag queen competitors but in Bowyer-Chapman’s case against a new judge — have only increased in intensity as the franchise has blossomed into both a critical darling and cultural sensation.
backlash led him to delete his Twitter account in August 2020 — reveals what really went on behind the scenes. According to him, the fault lies not solely with the fandom but within the show itself. “As gay men, we unfortunately have grown accustomed to experiencing hate and vitriol and homophobia,” says Bowyer-Chapman. “I guess I had just never experienced it from my own community. That was the part that was most heartbreaking.
In 2009, at 23, he had enough work experience to qualify for a green card. He relocated to Brooklyn, where he turned his focus to acting. His break came in 2015, when he was brought in to read for a TV series based on a short film by Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, a former producer on. Bowyer-Chapman was cast in the pilot as Jay, a straight, womanizing, manipulative reality TV producer. Whenwas picked up to series, the network ordered the pilot reshot.
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