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BENJAM CHARL WATSON BRGS BLACK AND GAY VISIBILY TO DIGNATED SURVIVOR
However, eed om the nstrats of work televisn, and now helmed by gay shownner and executive producer Neal Baer, Dignated Survivor has e out of the queer closet many rpects. The character is gay, but his sexual orientatn -- revealed a scene through a sual kiss wh his partner -- is not his fg characteristic.
For Watson, who is gay, this treatment was a key draw for why he wanted to play Dontae. "I love playg characters that are gay, " said Watson, who prevly played a queer character, Tariq, on TheL.
However, he stipulated, "I love playg characters that 's not about them beg gay. He is so many other thgs [than] gay. And then he ma me to a stronger dividual, " he reprentatn of a character who is both black and HIV-posive is important to the media landspe -- the real world, half of black gay and bi men will get HIV their lifetim, yet their experienc are still rarely seen televisn and hop that his character, by givg a face to men like Dontae, helps fight stigma the world and also te viewers about "untectable = untransmtable, " the announcement om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn assurg that if HIV-posive people like Dontae regularly take their meditn and supprs the vis to an untectable level, they nnot pass on to also gave Watson the opportuny to rethk the laws that crimalize issu like an HIV-posive person's disclosure to sexual partners.