Empire’s Jussie Smollett Sizzles on the Cover of OUT

For its March 2016 cover story, OUT magazine sat with openly gay Empire star Jussie Smollett, who plays gay middle-child Jamal Lyon, to discuss his rise to fame as the star of one of TV’s most popular and critically acclaimed hits.  Smollett talked to OUT about how he plans to use his new found fame to continue his longstanding work as a civil rights advocate telling the magazine, “I don’t take this career for granted, and I have been given a very special platform through Empire to speak on a weekly basis about love and truth and acceptance.”   Smollett revealed what he hopes his career has in store, and in return, what he still has planned for his fans. As Smollett puts it on his Twitter bio, “I am here to help save the world.”