Contents:
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
- 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' WRER LREN MORELLI OUT AS GAY
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
Lren Morelli, a former Orange is the New Black wrer and -executive producer, wrote an op-ed 2014 tailg her g-out journey, tled “While Wrg for Orange is the New Black, I Realized I Was Gay. Most notably, the terveng years, gay marriage was legalized.
Not only is Orange is the New Black highly addictg— was released on Netflix all at once, so many viewers bge-watched all 13 episos—but on top of that, tackl several ntroversial issu like sexualy, homophobia, patriarchy, class, and race, often simultaneoly. Intersectnaly is the ia that thgs like racism, sexism, homophobia, and other typ of bigotry, do not act penntly of one another; stead, the forms of opprsn terrelate.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
Morelli wrote that she realized she was gay while workg on the show's first season. While workg on the show, which featur lbian characters’ relatnships, she said she realized she was gay.
'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' WRER LREN MORELLI OUT AS GAY
The on-screen drama "Orange Is the New Black" helped one of the show's wrers e to a realizatn about her own Lren Morelli me out as gay after examg issu of sexualy the procs of wrg the Netflix h, she says an say for PolicyMic. (Jsi Migl for Netflix)"I realized I was gay fall 2012, one of my first days on the set, " Morelli wrote.