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True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis Dies at 39

Nelsan Ellis, who played Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s True Blood, has died at 39 due to complications from heart failure.

Variety reports:

“We were extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Nelsan Ellis,” HBO said in a statement. “Nelsan was a long-time member of the HBO family whose groundbreaking portrayal of Lafayette will be remembered fondly within the overall legacy of ‘True Blood.’ Nelsan will be dearly missed by his fans and all of us at HBO.”

“True Blood” creator and executive producer Alan Ball echoed HBO’s epitaph in a statement of his own. “Nelsan was a singular talent whose creativity never ceased to amaze me,” said Ball. “Working with him was a privilege.”

It was an utter privilege to work with the phenomenally talented and deeply kind soul .@OfficialNelsan I’m devastated by his untimely death. pic.twitter.com/If17csduHz

— Anna Paquin (@AnnaPaquin) July 8, 2017

Crushed today by the loss of my friend and castmate Nelsan Ellis. He was a wonderful person, a pioneer, and a one of a kind artist. RIP pic.twitter.com/fvtquhIac7

— Joe Manganiello (@JoeManganiello) July 8, 2017

Octavia Spencer, Ellis’s co-star in The Help, posted this on Instagram Saturday morning:

In 2014, Ellis ripped his co-star Luke Grimes for leaving the show after refusing to play gay:

“If you have a child, if you have a son, and he comes out as gay, what are you going to do? You just made a statement, and it has ripple effects. I didn’t like what he did because he made a statement, and sometimes you have to take responsibility.”

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These asexual guys are madly in love, they just have zero interest in having sex with one another
“Asexuality, like being gay, straight, bi, trans, etc., is how you are wired. Quite simply, you are born this way!”

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Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort Met with Kremlin-Linked Lawyer During Election Campaign

U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner confirmed late Saturday that they met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer in June 2016 during the election campaign. President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort was also in the meeting, Donald Trump Jr.’s representatives confirmed to the Associated Press Saturday. A spokesperson for Kushner…

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Andrew Rettman: Heftiger Gegenwind für die polnische Gay Rights-Bewegung
Als letztes Jahr die Scheiben der polnischen Geschäftsstelle der KPH, einer Non Profit Organisation für die Rechte von Schwulen und Lesben, von unbekannten Angreifern eingeworfen wurden, zeigte die polnische Polizei für ein paar Monate Präsenz.

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