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- MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' CASTS ALEX LANDI AS SHOW'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
It's rare to see a gay relatnship between men shown on a televisn show of Grey's liber, and the normalcy and emotns showg the two's love for one another are rehg.
Callie Torr' father to Seattle Grace wh the pastor of their church and a plan to nvce his dghter she isn't gay this emotnal episo that shows a real look at how people of the LGBTQ+ muny n be treated by their own loved on. After she shouts at her father that he n't "pray away the gay, " Callie tells Arizona she don't need a fay who's not gog to accept her for who she is.
" Kyle explas to Callie how all he wanted was to make the day feel special, as the state of Washgton didn't regnize gay marriage as a real marriage. Gay marriage fally beme legal jt 10 years ago Washgton, 2012, one year after this episo aired. Here, the actor and those who know him reveal the story of the man behd Grey's Anatomy's first openly gay male surgeon.
'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
Jake Borelli, the actor who plays him, did, Thursday, after the long-nng medil drama troduced s first-ever gay romance and male-on-male kiss between Schmt and new character Ni Kim (Alex Landi), Borelli celebrated the landmark moment on Instagram. “As a gay guy myself, tonight’s episo was so special to me, " the 27-year-old wrote.
"This is exactly the kd of story I craved as a young gay kid growg up Oh, and blows my md that I’m able to brg life to Dr.
Shownner Krista Vernoff told Entertament Weekly that she was spired to wre the gay romance for Borelli's character bee Schmt remd her of a iend llege "who was sort of a clumsy, fumferg type who would trip over his own feet and would stutter, and then he me out toward the end of our hman year and emerged as a pletely different human beg bee he was livg his tth.
'GREY'S ANATOMY' CASTS ALEX LANDI AS SHOW'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
The beloved character, who me out as gay at the same time Jake Borelli, who portrays him, me out publicly, worked amid the trma of early COVID-19 last season, and suffered full-on burnout after losg his first patient unr the hospal's new trag method this season. But for Borelli, a gay blood ban story that volv Levi Grey's Anatomy's 18th season fale (also the show's whoppg 400th episo), is eply personal.
There's no reason for ," he says."In preparg for the episo and talkg to people about this, I found that pecially om the straight muny, that there's this ia that oh, well, the blood ban is now no longer a lifetime blood ban for gay men," he adds. Texas (2003), which overturned anti-sodomy laws."You're fe as long as you don't have sex, as long as you don't partake sodomy, or if you don't get married," Borelli says of ndnal acceptance of gay and bi men."[It's] exactly what we were jt htg on at the begng of this wh the new Supreme Court stuff," he adds.Ellen Pompeo as Meredh and Jake Borelli as Levi Season 17Grey's Anatomy is notorly mum about s episos [screeners are not available to journalists].