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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- NBC’S 'CHIGO MED': BEG THE CLOSET LERALLY HURTS GAY TEENS
- CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
NBC’S 'CHIGO MED': BEG THE CLOSET LERALLY HURTS GAY TEENS
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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. His medil plitns are brought on bee he's been hidg that he's gay. Is there any show the days whout a gay storyle twist?
The strs of alg wh the gay feelgs and the move that will separate the two guys have left the boy paralyzed. If beg gay is no big al anymore, why is there a need to show such weird story twists an otherwise non-ntroversial televisn show? 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.
CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY 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.
Ethan Choi (Brian Tee), volvg a gay patient who h on him and then Terry McNeal (recurrg gut star Colby Lewis) revealg that he is also gay. A lot of thgs didn’t work this subplot—the patient g off like a stereotypil gay character, the way seemed to shoehorn the reveal about Terry, and the way ma Choi seem character on this show would feel out of place here, but particularly Choi, who is normally the most level-head and open-md character?