wait i’m screaming… the executive producer of empire is literally the creator of the l word and somehow… somehow… thought it would be a good idea to have empire’s only lesbian couple graphically commit murder-suicide
“Speaking about Campbell’s character (who had sex with a man, Bryshere Gray’s Hakeem Lyon, in the scene prior to her death), Chaiken explains: “I would say that Camilla is not a lesbian character. Camilla was, if anything, an opportunist, which is quite different from being a lesbian. If anything, the lesbians should wish for a character like Camilla to be killed off since she just preyed on a powerful lesbian in order to fulfill her heterosexual ambitions.”
but if cishet dude showrunners are massive homophobes and the creator of the l word is a massive homophobe then who’s driving the plane
This actually makes it LESS surprising to me to know that that happened with Chaiken at the helm. Chaiken set up the L Word’s main bisexual character, Jenny Schecter, as sort of Evil Bisexual; the story lines of the bisexual trans man, Max, were all over the place as well. Max ended up pregnant and Jenny ended up dead.
Basically, I would actually expect Bad Things of Some Kind to happen to any wlw or trans character under Chaiken’s control.
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 