Meet Alex Landi: Grey's Anatomy's first gay male surgeon, Ni Kim |

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• HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GREY'S ANATOMY JT CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON?
• MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
• 'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• GREY'S ANATOMY ADDS A GAY MALE SURGEON: WHY IT'S ABOUT TIME
• JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GREY'S ANATOMY JT CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON?

Grey's Anatomy has had s fair share of LGBTQ reprentatn over the urse of s 14-year n, but Season 15 will troduce Grey Sloan Memorial's first ever gay male surgeon! It seems kd of bafflg that took Grey's Anatomy this long to troduce a gay male surgeon on the show, pecially sce 's had que a few bisexual and lbian doctors over the years -- Callie Torr (Sara Ramirez), Arizona Robbs (Jsi Capshaw), Eri Hahn (Brooke Smh), Cara DeLu (Stefanie Spampato) and Eliza Mnick (Marika Domczyk) jt to name a few.

It seems wild that gay surgeon hasn't entered the picture until now. And OK, sure, the long-nng ABC seri had a few gay male patients over the years, but there haven't been any that have had ser stayg power on the show. Here, the actor and those who know him reveal the story of the man behd Grey's Anatomy's first openly gay male surgeon.

MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON

It's rare to see a gay relatnship between men shown on a televisn show of Grey's liber, and the normalcy and emotns showg the two's love for one another are rehg. Callie Torr' father to Seattle Grace wh the pastor of their church and a plan to nvce his dghter she isn't gay this emotnal episo that shows a real look at how people of the LGBTQ+ muny n be treated by their own loved on. After she shouts at her father that he n't "pray away the gay, " Callie tells Arizona she don't need a fay who's not gog to accept her for who she is.

" Kyle explas to Callie how all he wanted was to make the day feel special, as the state of Washgton didn't regnize gay marriage as a real marriage.

Gay marriage fally beme legal jt 10 years ago Washgton, 2012, one year after this episo aired.

'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR OUT AS GAY

Jake Borelli, the actor who plays him, did, Thursday, after the long-nng medil drama troduced s first-ever gay romance and male-on-male kiss between Schmt and new character Ni Kim (Alex Landi), Borelli celebrated the landmark moment on Instagram.

“As a gay guy myself, tonight’s episo was so special to me, " the 27-year-old wrote. "This is exactly the kd of story I craved as a young gay kid growg up Oh, and blows my md that I’m able to brg life to Dr.

GREY'S ANATOMY ADDS A GAY MALE SURGEON: WHY IT'S ABOUT TIME

Shownner Krista Vernoff told Entertament Weekly that she was spired to wre the gay romance for Borelli's character bee Schmt remd her of a iend llege "who was sort of a clumsy, fumferg type who would trip over his own feet and would stutter, and then he me out toward the end of our hman year and emerged as a pletely different human beg bee he was livg his tth.

JSE WILLIAMS WEIGHS ON BEG A STRAIGHT MAN PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER BROADWAY'S TAKE ME OUT

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? 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.