Emmett Dixon, the Fire Chief's son, fally nfsed he is gay and fans hail the new LGBTQ+ twist on the ABC show
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- 'STATN 19' SEASON 3 EPISO 13: EMMETT OUT AS GAY, BUT WILL FIRE CHIEF DIXON ACCEPT SON'S SEXUALY?
- IS JAY HAYN GAY? HERE’S HOW HE APPROACH HIS ‘STATN 19’ ROLE
'STATN 19' SEASON 3 EPISO 13: EMMETT OUT AS GAY, BUT WILL FIRE CHIEF DIXON ACCEPT SON'S SEXUALY?
* station 19 gay storyline *
Statn 19 prevly troduced gay firefighter Travis Montgomery (Jay Hayn) who lost his hband and fellow firefighter some time before, which opened a slot on the team for newbie Ben Warren (Jason Gee), who stopped beg a surgeon to bee a firefighter. Y, Emmett Dixon (Lachlan Buchanan), the Fire Chief's son, fally nfsed he is gay. Savre also chim that fans appreciate seeg “a very healthy, strong gay uple” who “aren’t nstantly a state of turmoil, ” which is an often-overlooked part of reprentatn.
” But ultimately, she wants Statn 19 wrers to play out their storyle as “a gay uple who are happy and have a child. While the actor who plays him, Jay Hayn, isn’t gay real life, the Statn 19 star has reprented Travis and the LGBTQ+ muny well om the start. Hayn plays Travis Montgomery, an openly gay firefighter at Statn 19 and widower who lost his hband, Michael Williams, a fire.
Is Jay Hayn gay real life om Statn 19?
IS JAY HAYN GAY? HERE’S HOW HE APPROACH HIS ‘STATN 19’ ROLE
Hayn also told Hidn Remote that he was ncerned what his father would thk about him playg a gay character on televisn. To say ‘Dad, I’m playg a gay firefighter on a Shonda Rhim show, ’ he’s jt the bt guy the world and is like ‘Oh, ngratulatns’ but I don’t really know what’s gog on his head.
“The thg is I don’t really know how to play straight or play gay.
Hayn also revealed a nversatn he had wh a real firefighter who had seen other gay firefighters be discrimated agast. He’d been a New York firefighter for 25 years and he said that back the ’70s and ’80s: ‘Some of the bt guys back my day were gay and they were jt as strong and jt as tough and jt as heroic. There was no difference between them and ’s sad bee they uldn’t e out and uldn’t feel fortable lettg the other guys know they were gay.