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After 'Tom Swift' buted at the begng of Pri Month, seri star Tian Richards is reflectg on the prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead character.

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

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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. 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.

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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.

COUNCIL OF DADS ACTOR J AUGT RICHARDS, 46, REVEALS HE IS GAY LIKE HIS TV CHARACTER

Has e out as gay. 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...

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

You work wh a lot of cis gay men. How do you feel about workg so often wh cis gay men?

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I have had almost-exclively posive experienc wh my cis gay stars. In fact I am really happy how acceptg gay porn performers are of trans men, as they realize that manhood is not fed by genals but stead by personaly and energy. Council Of Dads actor J Augt Richards, 46, reveals he is gay like his TV character then adds the support he has received is like an 'avalanche of LOVE'Actor J Augt Richards me out as gay on Instagram Live this week The star, 46, was talkg to his Council Of Dads -star Sarah Wayne Calli'I knew that I uld not portray this gay man hontly, ' the 6ft3 actor said'...

Whout lettg you all know that I am a gay man myself'He add, 'I've never done that wh the people that I've worked wh' Published: 17:52 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 18:54 BST, 23 April 2020. Actor J Augt Richards me out as gay on Instagram Live this week when talkg to his Council Of Dads -star Sarah Wayne 46-year-old star - who was on Agents Of Shield om 2013 until 2018 - plays a gay man Council Of Dads and told followers that he wanted the world to know he is gay as well.

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'I knew that I uld not portray this gay man hontly whout lettg you all know that I am a gay man myself. I've never done that wh the people that I've worked wh, ' the 6ft3 star reveal: Actor J Augt Richards me out as gay on Instagram Live this week when talkg to his Council Of Dads -star Sarah Wayne Calli His seri: On Council Of Dads wh (l-r) Back Row: Richards as Dr. Oliver Post, a married gay his chat wh Calli, the star said that he put his all to Council Of Dads.

'Everyone said would be but nothg uld have prepared me, ' stated AugtAnd Augt also explaed that he me to Hollywood wh the tentn of reprentg gay men a more posive light.

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'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 … on televisn, I don't take anythg I do lightly, and you have an opportuny to put an image to lns of hom. For stance, Mary Richards was also a small screen gay in. A 1973 episo featured a gay character, one of the first televisn shows to do so that did not panr to homophobic stereotyp and swishy mockery for cheap lghs.

The polics of pictg a gay man a rpectful and multi-dimensnal way on work televisn was beyond my grasp, given that I was 9 years old at the time of broadst and not knowg what a “gay in” was the first place or even that I was gay myself.

As signifint as that moment was the history of queerns Amerin pop culture, her beg a gay in volved more. Though may be a gay cliché, yearng to be Mary was about more than her fabulo apartment and impecble fashn sense, although of urse that was part of ; after all, young queerlg boys tend to rpond posively to athetics.

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