Word on the curb is that media mogul Tyler Perry is engaged and planning a huge wedding for his gorgeous Ethiopian model chick, Gelila Bekele. The super-producer. Tyler Perry has played a big role in the ratings turnaround at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, and the network continues to bank on content from the prolific filmmaker. Oprah Winfrey ended her famous talk show today by telling her viewers of 25 years that they were not saying goodbye. Entertainment Television, LLC. A Division of NBCUniversal with news, shows, photos, and videos.

Why Do People Think Tyler Perry is Gay? Billy Campbell Dating. Charing Ball“So, did you hear that Tyler Perry is rumored to be engaged,” I said as I sipped my tea.

From across the table, a group of friends pause from picking through the plate of hummus and pita bread and almost like a Baptist church choir, sang out,  “To what?” I started to giggle,  “An Ethiopian model.” My one friend, completely confused and somewhat slow on the draw, scratched the side of her temple and says, “but I thought gay marriage was illegal in most states?” I sucked my teeth, rolled my eyes and said, “No, he is marrying a woman. Why does everyone think he is gay?”That basically sums up the reaction I hear over and over again after discussing this rumor about Tyler Perry’s alleged nuptials. No one knows for sure where the rumor came from, although we can guess which usually- wrong gossip rag started it, but allegedly larger than life filmmaker has been shopping for rings for his long- term girlfriend Model Gelila Bekele. And I think that a discussion about why folks think he is gay is a worthy one to have. Perry’s been dealing with the question marks about his sexuality since he and Madea sashayed from the “chittlin circuit” some time ago.

Assumptions that his history of hiring muscular guys for his plays and films are a sure sign of his sexuality. Or the fact that he is a very success ful, single man in his forties, with no children. Patricia Agnew (played by Janet Jackson) and her husband Gavin (Malik Yoba) were engaged in a bitter divorce that gets increasingly ugly due to his petition for half of the royalties from her book sales. In retaliation, she humiliates him in front of his coworkers, with a giant birthday cake with an effeminate gay Black man dancing to the Weathergirl’s It’s Raining Men.

Of course, all of this is done to not only embarrass him but to use the presence of a gay man to contest his masculinity.