Interview: Jay Armstrong Johnson Is Havg a Gay Old Time His New Show To My Girls

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INTERVIEW: JAY ARMSTRONG JOHNSON IS HAVG A GAY OLD TIME HIS NEW SHOW TO MY GIRLS

Even though most people would regnize Jay Armstrong Johnson as openly gay hacker Will Olsen on ABC's Quanti, his profsnal reer has largely been bookend by the work of Leonard Bernste. Both stage and screen keep Johnson very by, but beg gay and actually makg show bs is harr than Johnson's reer, he had a manager that advised him to keep the "gay thg" to a mimum. "I hired reprentatn that was sentially puttg me back the closet for fear that I would be put a box as gay, even though, at that time, all of the rol my reer had been straight rol.

"The send that I started beg vol about beg gay, that's when [his reer] really started takg off for me, " he adds. "That's where I am now--really embracg homosexualy, beg an advote for the LGBTQ youth--and while 's hard bee there's still so much opposn, 's only ma me stronger as an actor and stronger as a person.

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"That is a pliment, I gus, to a certa extent, but 's nice to play the gay rol too. "First and foremost, playg openly gay Will Olsen on ABC's Quanti allows Armstrong to be a mouthpiece for a very important msage.

INTERVIEW: JAY ARMSTRONG JOHNSON IS HAVG A GAY OLD TIME HIS NEW SHOW TO MY GIRLS

You n be gay and do that, " says Armstrong of the character's importance on TV and culture.

Also, is rewardg to Armstrong bee the character hasn't volved to a gay stereotype.

INTERVIEW: JAY ARMSTRONG JOHNSON IS HAVG A GAY OLD TIME HIS NEW SHOW TO MY GIRLS

"I know what 's like to grow up and be hated for who I was and not even knowg I was gay.

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People jt lled me 'fag, ' they lled me 'gay' as early as third gra, and I had no clue, " he explas. "I've been so vol agast the g admistratn for all rights, not jt for gay rights, not jt for black rights, not jt for women's rights, for everyone, " he says. In this lennial take on "The Boys the Band, " the clean-cut Curtis is ultimately ls than a good iend to his longtime gay bti (played by Mlik Pancholy, Brton Smh, and Carman Laciva), leadg to some very unpleasant nsequenc.

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Interview: Jay Armstrong Johnson Is Havg a Gay Old Time His New Show To My Girls .

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