Love-hated by many Smash fans though he was, the character of Ellis disrupted hegemonic thinking about sexuality by remaining undefined and uninterested in defining -- something unfortunately "corrected" in the second and final season.
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The Post-Closet Politics of Smash
May 29, 2013
By Jimmy Draper
Tags: ellis, queer, smash
Posted in Current Events, Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on The Post-Closet Politics of Smash
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