How fame, race, sexuality, and the toxic confines of masculinity might have served as a motive for one of the most bizarre celebrity scandals in recent memory.
“I’m not fully healed yet, but I’m going to be, and I’m gonna stand strong with y’all,” he continued, to what was reported to be around 400 people. “I had to be here tonight, y’all. I couldn’t let those motherfuckers win.” By early February 2019, pundits on the right had started chalking this up to his desire to be a victim, Jussie Smollett had set up the hoax to be theSmollett, 39, would later be convicted on five of six counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.
What would end in disgrace started as a terrifying news story. On Jan. 29, 2019, Smollett told authorities that two white men, hurling racist and homophobic slurs, violently attacked him blocks away from his apartment. At the time, Smollett said the men poured bleach on him and tied a noose around his neck, while they called him the n-word, boldly proclaiming “this is MAGA country.” With those elements at play, there was no reason not to consider this incident anything less than a hate crime.
Immediately after the attack, Smollett went to his apartment and told his story to a friend, choreographer Frank Gatson. Gatson, who was staying with Smollett at the time, contacted the police. Smollett then checked himself into an emergency room, where he was treated for pain and a few slight bruises to the face. He departed shortly after.
During that time, I, a Black queer millennial journalist, believed Smollett. I had previously covered the rise of hate crimes during Trump’s presidency and had Black and brown queer friends who had recently experienced blatant bigotry in public. According to the, hate crimes grew in major American cities in the years leading up to Trump’s rise in political power.
Throughout the 2018 midterms, I received an increased level of racist, homophobic hate mail and threats for articles I had written that were critical of Trump and his supporters. It didn’t feel like a surprise that Smollett, who had also been publicly critical of Trump at the time, would be a target.
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