Chigo Fire's Daniel Kyri Opens Up About Comg Out As Gay On The Show

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• CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
• ‘CHIGO FIRE’ CHARACTER CELEBRATED BY FANS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW

NBC News terviewed Kyri about his recently-upgrad role on "Chigo Fire, " highlightg, particular, a moment which Rter out as gay the show's eighth season as a notable landmark his tenure on the show. "Bee my web seri felt like a kd of g out, " Kyri said, mentg on how he felt after learng about the "Chigo Fire" wrers' plans for Rter, "this historic moment the ntext of the 'One Chigo' world, for this Black, male character to e out as gay this blue-llar, first-rponr world, I wanted to do jtice. After tablishg himself on the Chigo theater scene lol productns of “Hamlet, ” “Macbeth” and “Objects the Mirror, ” Daniel Kyri has ma a succsful transn to episodic televisn, starrg as Darren Rter, an openly gay Black firefighter, on the h NBC procral drama “Chigo Fire.

Durg that time, he has been able to work “anilly and llaboratively” wh the wrers — who, he said, “are so good at strikg such a lovely, well-balanced tone between edy and drama, between the everyday and the adrenale-ducg” — to rporate parts of his own inty and lived experience to his breakout the wrers ntued to wre him to major plotl, Kyri disvered that his character was gog to e out as gay at the start of the eighth season.

“Bee my web seri felt like a kd of g out, and then [wh] this historic moment the ntext of the ‘One Chigo’ world, for this Black, male character to e out as gay this blue-llar, first-rponr world, I wanted to do jtice, more importantly, ” he said. Daniel Kyri’s character Darren Rter, troduced last season, me out as gay on last week’s episo of NBC’s Chigo Fire and fans were enthed. In the pilot you fd out Llie is a lbian after her squadmat nvce the new guy to h on her and she asks him, “Are you gay?

‘CHIGO FIRE’ CHARACTER CELEBRATED BY FANS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

She said she’s played a few other lbian characters before but this one don’t fall to “clich of homosexualy.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

“I’ve played a few lbians and I have gay and lbian iends and I don’t thk ’s really any different. In the pilot episo, she me out as gay what would soon bee clear was a classic Shay way. "Peter Mills, are you gay?

The tenac, openly gay hero of Ambulance 61 was loved by her gff workers and the dience alike. "They met a woman who was gay and who was an EMT, " she said.

They thought she was jt so matter-of-fact, so ol and so pletely voted to the job, and what a great opportuny was to tell a very ground, real story about someone who 'oh, by the way, she's gay. The actrs also had a msage to those who mata that havg openly gay characters on televisn amounts to promotn of an unacceptable liftyle.