R. Kelly’s Weird Trapped in the Closet and Its Weirder Gay Empathy

“Did Chuck have AIDS?” someone off camera asks Rufus as he’s storming out of frame. The setup is a candid interview, maybe for a reality show, maybe for a Maury-like talk show, and Rufus, a pastor, is refusing to answer questions about the man his wife caught him cheating with chapters and chapters ago in R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet saga. More »