Tom Swift's Tian Richards on beg first gay Black lead on work TV |

Contents:

• AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D'S J. AUGT RICHARDS ANNOUNC HE'S GAY: 'ONE OF THE BT DAYS OF MY LIFE'
• HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
• LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
• IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HIS SEXUALY TAILED
• WGN’S DEAN RICHARDS RPONDS TO GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’
• IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HERE IS THE TTH

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D'S J. AUGT RICHARDS ANNOUNC HE'S GAY: 'ONE OF THE BT DAYS OF MY LIFE'

Has e out as gay.

HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD

Oliver Post, a happily married gay black man wh a dghter. “I knew how I was affected by the people of lor I saw on televisn, or that I didn’t see on televisn, so this beg a married, gay man, wh a fay...

LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL

“Hontly, required me to show up fully a way that I don’t always when I’m workg, " he said, before addg, “I knew that I uld not portray this gay man hontly whout lettg you all know that I am a gay man myself. The actor had, after all, already buted his character an episo of Nancy Drew a year prr, and the publicy surroundg his new sp-off seri always celebrated the fact that he was the first gay Black lead on work TV.

Now, as the tular gay Black geni billnaire playboy ma character, Tom is a vilishly charmg, sexy, brilliant ventor wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth.

IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HIS SEXUALY TAILED

Growg up Black and gay, he didn't see characters like himself the lead role or the center of any stori, let alone one that shows someone like him as a billnaire or brilliant ventor or playboy, and he n't help but wonr how his life might have been different if he had.

" That's how Richards end up alg wh all the add prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead — by focg on all of Tom's layers and makg him a three-dimensnal human rather than a symbol for an entire muny. Wh playg a gay character, you don't want them to be an archetype or fall to a trope, and I ma sure to stay mdful of that. On the surface, he always knew he had a lot mon wh Tom as a gay Black man growg up today's world, but he had no ia jt how much the show was gog to change his life on an ternal level.

I am also a full-time adult performer producg mostly gay porn.

WGN’S DEAN RICHARDS RPONDS TO GAY CHARACTER NTROVERSY ‘BETY AND THE BEAST’

You work wh a lot of cis gay men.

IS RICHARD SIMMONS GAY? HERE IS THE TTH

How do you feel about workg so often wh cis gay men?