July 2010 - Hart jokes about preventing his son from being gay in his Seriously Funny special They also included Hart calling a person’s profile picture “a gay bill board for AIDS.” The jokes didn’t go unnoticed at the time, but would become a much bigger problem for the star in the years to come as his public profile, and box-office appeal, increased exponentially. Some were aimed around his thoughts about how he would react to potentially having a gay son, in which the comedian said he would break a dollhouse over his head if he saw him playing with it.
The tweets that kicked off this national conversation are from nearly a decade ago, when Hart made a number of jokes over the course of two years on his Twitter page about LGBTQ people. July 2009 - Jan 2011: Kevin Hart sends out a series of homophobic tweets So what exactly happened? Here’s a complete timeline of the Hart Oscars controversy. 2020 Oscar Nominations: See the Full List
