Jake Borelli on Why Grey's Anatomy's Gay Blood Ban Story Is Personal

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

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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.

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.

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" 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. Enquanto Landi receberá atenção pecial por ser o primeiro cirgião gay da série – o programa mostrou por anos o relacnamento homoafetivo das médis Callie e Arizona Robbs (Jsi Capshaw), ambas mulher, logo Landi será o primeiro homem homossexual a ganhar staque na trama.

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Here, the actor and those who know him reveal the story of the man behd Grey's Anatomy's first openly gay male surgeon. The beloved character, who me out as gay at the same time Jake Borelli, who portrays him, me out publicly, worked amid the trma of early COVID-19 last season, and suffered full-on burnout after losg his first patient unr the hospal's new trag method this season. But for Borelli, a gay blood ban story that volv Levi Grey's Anatomy's 18th season fale (also the show's whoppg 400th episo), is eply personal.

"In preparg for the episo and talkg to people about this, I found that pecially om the straight muny, that there's this ia that oh, well, the blood ban is now no longer a lifetime blood ban for gay men, " he adds. "You're fe as long as you don't have sex, as long as you don't partake sodomy, or if you don't get married, " Borelli says of ndnal acceptance of gay and bi men. "Borelli, 31, joed ABC's long-nng medil drama 2018, g out publicly as his character's gay storyle unfold not long after.