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ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'
Sce Mathews, who jok, "I've been gay sce birth, " first appeared as Ross the Intern on The Tonight Show Wh Jay Leno, 's been part of his missn to be visible and reprent for those g up behd him. "I remember beg a kid a farm town and realizg I was gay and then askg myself, What do a gay grown-up person look like?
"I remember thkg, God, I have to s down and talk to him bee he knows I'm gay, jt bee, you know, I'm on TV. "But I wonr if he's ever seen a gay uple or somethg.
When Ross Mathews started his reer as “Ross the Intern” on “The Tonight Show wh Jay Leno, ” there were only a small number of LGBTQ people on TV and gay men, Ross says, weren’t happy wh him reprentg them. Jefey Masters: I thk Jay Leno would be acced of gay bashg today. He was potg out the obv, but he also put me on his show for 13 years, so there was a method behd the madns, I Thkg about you on Chelsea Lately and your show, I’m shocked by how recent was bee still felt subversive to see an out gay man on TV, one that’s not tryg to butch I jt never gave a flyg fuck what people thought or thk.