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• HERE'S HOW 'MURPHY BROWN' EDUTED VIEWERS ON GAY HISTORY IN 1994
• MURPHY BROWN STAR JOK ABOUT BEG GAY AND INDIAN ON STEPHEN COLBERT
• ‘MURPHY BROWN’ STAR NIK DODANI EXPLAS HOW BEG GAY IS A LOT LIKE BEG INDIAN
• MURPHY BROWN'S GAY INDIAN-AMERIN UNIRN
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• MURPHY BROWN'S GAY INDIAN-AMERIN UNIRN

HERE'S HOW 'MURPHY BROWN' EDUTED VIEWERS ON GAY HISTORY IN 1994

Related | See the First Photo of the Rned Murphy Brown CastThe reboot's most recent episo featured s first gay regular character's g out scene.

At a fancy media event, Mil (Grant Shd) learns that Pat (Nik Dodani) is gay when Pat's ex, Jack (Isaac Powell), who happens to be a ter waer at the event, nonts him.

MURPHY BROWN STAR JOK ABOUT BEG GAY AND INDIAN ON STEPHEN COLBERT

For out actor and edian, Dodani, his role on Murphy Brown marks his first time playg a gay character. He also chats about workg wh Candice Bergen and inic Sex and the Cy stume signer, Patricia How do feel to be playg a gay character for the first time, pecially this goln age of reprentatn TV?

For the work to st an openly gay actor to play an openly gay character is pretty dope. To this day, the "Gay Wch Hunt" episo of The Office where Michael outs Osr is one of my favore moments TV. Was His Character Gay 'Murphy Brown?

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‘MURPHY BROWN’ STAR NIK DODANI EXPLAS HOW BEG GAY IS A LOT LIKE BEG INDIAN

” But by parison, “The Anchorman” offered viewers a “heapg dose of gay lovers, queer history and wanton sgg of show tun” at a time when the televisn landspe was nsirably ls LGBTQ clive than is today, Bme said. It’s only when Jim’s -workers drop by their pal’s new tablishment that he disvers he has advertently opened a gay bar.

The episo also wks at gay men throughout history, cludg thor Christopher Isherwood, playwright Tennsee Williams and former Massachetts Rep.

MURPHY BROWN'S GAY INDIAN-AMERIN UNIRN

In dog so, Bme told HuffPost, “The Anchorman” be “an opportuny to learn about jt how many queer folks there are around [viewers’] day-to-day liv and also that gays have always been prent throughout history whether straight people knew or not. ”- Seattle-based wrer Matt BmeThe “Murphy Brown” revival, which buted September, has mataed s embrace of LGBTQ them, specifilly wh the character of social media expert Pat Patel (played by Nik Dodani), who me out as gay an early episo.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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MURPHY BROWN'S GAY INDIAN-AMERIN UNIRN

It's not easy beg Indian and gay, as Murphy Brown actor and edian Nik Dodani attted on The Late Show wh Stephen Colbert. "It's tough beg Indian and gay, bee Indian culture is still pretty homophobic, which is weird to me, bee Indian culture is also pretty gay, " Dodani joked to the dience Friday on the late-night CBS talk show.

""Not only is Indian culture really gay, but gay culture is really Indian, " he observed. He found out he was mother, he joked, "posted an ad on Craigslist that read, 'My son, 24 years old, Indian, gay, works entertament, seeks Indian lbian facg siiar fay prsure. '"His father, Dodani revealed, had a better rponse to his g out as gay -- but one that was also layered wh cultural expectatns.