Josie Totah stars the new edy om Mdy Kalg, “Champns.” She talked to Teen Vogue about breakg gay stereotyp on the seri.
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- JOSIE TOTAH’S GENR: SHE WAS MISINTIFIED AS A GAY MAN
- "CHAMPNS" STAR JOSIE TOTAH ON BREAKG GAY STEREOTYP ON MDY KALG'S NEW SHOW
JOSIE TOTAH’S GENR: SHE WAS MISINTIFIED AS A GAY MAN
Totah, gay boy.
” When I was really young, growg up a small town Northern California, people would jt assume I was gay. Numero reporters have asked me terviews how feels to be a young gay man. I almost felt like I owed to everybody to be that gay boy.
In some ways, I felt like I was lyg by lettg people believe I was that gay boy.
"CHAMPNS" STAR JOSIE TOTAH ON BREAKG GAY STEREOTYP ON MDY KALG'S NEW SHOW
Totah allowed people to intify her as a gay man but stggled si wh the misreprentatn. However, she didn’t e out as a transgenr female, meang people – pecially journalists – kept misintifyg her as gay. The misreprentatn hurt Totah, but some ways, she enuraged : Totah failed to rrect people and played young, gay characters, rercg the notn that Josie was a gay man.
Josie knew trans people whose journey volved first g out as gay, but that wasn’t her journey. Havg pigeonholed herself as a ‘young and gay’ actor, she fought siar feelgs on other projects. Openg up about her past, the Disney alum shared that sce enterg the entertament dtry, "numero reporters have asked me terviews how feels to be a young gay man.