Is uncle clifford gay in real life

Part of HuffPost Entertainment. All rights reserved. What's Hot. Nicco Annan said the "P-Valley" role of Uncle Clifford "literally was the thing that kind of woke me up. Nicco Annan says he wants more people who look like him to feel celebrated in Hollywood.

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And he saw it as just that: an opportunity to continue telling a Black queer story. We discussed how he got inspired to play Uncle Clifford, where the character fits in to the broader Black queer media lexicon and what he hopes Black queer people take away from the show.

‘Getting it true’ with ‘P-Valley’ star Nicco Annan

Hall is showing us that a 6'3, Black, nonbinary, head-bitch-in charge can run a successful business in the heart of the Mississippi Delta surrounded by hyper-masculine Black heterosexual men without her backstory so far relying on typical Hollywood tropes of rejection, substance abuse, suicide or life-threatening illness and still be respected in the community that she serves.

Thank You, Uncle Clifford

P-Valley bucks that tradition, imbuing its characters with the richness that is usually only afforded to heterosexual couples. Although Lil Murda must keep his identity as a gay man secret for his own safety and success in the rap world, he is not filled with the internalized shame that often becomes externalized as violence or degradation toward his sexual partners, including Uncle Clifford.