Dick Wolf's 'Chigo Fire' had one openly gay character s first two seasons, but the character was killed off vg the ire of many viewers. We take a look at the anchise's lack of LGBTQ+ reprentatn
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- CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
- ‘CHIGO FIRE’ CHARACTER CELEBRATED BY FANS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
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NBC News terviewed Kyri about his recently-upgrad role on "Chigo Fire, " highlightg, particular, a moment which Rter out as gay the show's eighth season as a notable landmark his tenure on the show. "Bee my web seri felt like a kd of g out, " Kyri said, mentg on how he felt after learng about the "Chigo Fire" wrers' plans for Rter, "this historic moment the ntext of the 'One Chigo' world, for this Black, male character to e out as gay this blue-llar, first-rponr world, I wanted to do jtice. After tablishg himself on the Chigo theater scene lol productns of “Hamlet, ” “Macbeth” and “Objects the Mirror, ” Daniel Kyri has ma a succsful transn to episodic televisn, starrg as Darren Rter, an openly gay Black firefighter, on the h NBC procral drama “Chigo Fire.
‘CHIGO FIRE’ CHARACTER CELEBRATED BY FANS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Durg that time, he has been able to work “anilly and llaboratively” wh the wrers — who, he said, “are so good at strikg such a lovely, well-balanced tone between edy and drama, between the everyday and the adrenale-ducg” — to rporate parts of his own inty and lived experience to his breakout the wrers ntued to wre him to major plotl, Kyri disvered that his character was gog to e out as gay at the start of the eighth season.
“Bee my web seri felt like a kd of g out, and then [wh] this historic moment the ntext of the ‘One Chigo’ world, for this Black, male character to e out as gay this blue-llar, first-rponr world, I wanted to do jtice, more importantly, ” he said.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
When 'Chigo Fire' first started airg the fall of 2012, the show featured Lren German as an openly gay paramedic, Llie Shay who would often crack self-pretg jok about . Beg what was possibly the most proment gay character on a Dick Wolf show meant that Llie Shay was a breath of h air. Llie's ath not only vered the 'Dead Lbian Syndrome', but also vered the 'Gay but not too gay' and 'All lbians have kids' trop.
The 'Gay but not too gay' trope impli that the sexualy of characters who intify as LGBTQ is ually only implied snippets of nversatn. In the pilot episo, she me out as gay what would soon bee clear was a classic Shay way. "Peter Mills, are you gay?