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Bowen Yang, a gay edian and the son of Che immigrants, is helpg make SNL's st more diverse than ever. Here’s what you should know.

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NEW ‘SNL’ CAST MEMBER BOWEN YANG IS ASIAN AMERIN, GAY, AND ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY

A wrer last season who once played Kim Jong-Un, Yang is only the third out gay male st member the show's history. * gay asian guy on snl *

He is also openly gay, makg him only the third out gay male st member the show’s history (wh Terry Sweeney and John Milhiser).

Last year, edian Jam Adomian spoke about his belief that the show had an issue wh stg out gay men, promptg equent host Alec Baldw to fire back on Twter. When gay edian Guy Branum asked if Baldw uld intify gay performers executive producer Lorne Michaels had hired, Baldw wrote: “I n intify several. The fact that gay men get st on SNL when they stay closeted and play ball don’t make the show clive.

NEW 'SNL' CAST MEMBER BOWEN YANG IS BREAKG BARRIERS FOR BOTH ASIAN AND GAY COMEDIANS

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New 'SNL' Cast Member Bowen Yang Is Breakg Barriers for Both Asian and Gay ComediansBowen Yang, a gay edian and the son of Che immigrants, is helpg make SNL's st more diverse than ever. Though the show is embarkg on s 45th season on the air, Bowen jos the st as the first Che-Amerin performer history and one of only three openly gay male st members ever. The only openly gay men to appear on the show before Bowen are Terry Sweeney on one season om 1985 to 1986 and John Milhiser, who was briefly part of the st for the 2013-2014 season.

Article ntu below advertisementSource: Getty ImagBowen Yang is SNL's first openly gay, Asian st of this trivia nfirms two thgs: SNL has a long-standg problem wh reprentatn that seems to be gettg addrsed (however slowly), and Bowen Yang is fely a first for the show as the first openly gay, Asian player the show's five s on televisn. Though both are openly gay now, when they were llege, they were actually romantic rivals over a girl.

NEW ‘SNL’ CAST MEMBER BOWEN YANG IS ASIAN AMERIN, GAY, AND ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY

A wrer last season who once played Kim Jong-Un, Yang is the first Asian Amerin and the third out gay male st member the show's history. * gay asian guy on snl *

When they both later me out (separately), they didn't thk they would necsarily be iends jt bee they both happened to be gay, but here they are years later and are total BFFs. 1663268487In 1985, SNL phed the envelope when Terry Sweeney beme the first out gay person on work TV.

BOWEN YANG IS SNL'S FIRST GAY ASIAN CAST MEMBER

Gay ic Bowen Yang has joed the st of Saturday Night Live, beg the show's first full-time st member om an Asian background. * gay asian guy on snl *

Now SNL dienc will have the opportuny to get to know a nonbary person, while other nonbary people will see themselv reprented on seri lost some key players this summer, cludg Kate McKnon, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, and Pete Davidson, and featured players Alex Moffat, Melissa Villasenor, and Aristotle 2019, Bowen Yang beme the first out gay Asian-Amerin st member on the program. He memorably -wrote (wh Jul Torr) the show's famo gay porn parody starrg Emma Stone.

A host of the podst Las Culturistas alongsi Matt Rogers, Yang also has actg creds High Matenance (2016), Isn't It Romantic (2019) and The Outs (2012), a pneerg gay web addn to Yang, Chloe Feman and Shane Gillis were announced as new st members for SNL's 45th season, which premier September 28 wh host Woody Harrelson and mil gut Billie past LGBTQ st members of SNL clu Terry Sweeney, Danra Vance, Kate McKnon, and John the announcement of Yang's stg, LGBTQ Twter l up wh msag of ngratulatns. 1568307602\u201cFirst Asian st member and also one of the VERY few openly gay men on the st.

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The edian is the first person of full Asian scent as well as the fifth LGBTQ person to be a st member on the NBC sketch edy that one of the other SNL addns, Shane Gillis, has an antigay past briefly turned the spotlight away om Yang. Clearly, he is unaaid to addrs his Asian anctry (his parents are Che immigrants) as well as his gay inty his edy. Here, he par a "Shanghai mule" he observed on a menu to a Mosw mule, but "jt a ltle ls homophobic.

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His edic brilliance is on full display "The Actrs, " one of the greatt and gayt sks Saturday Night Live history, which he wrote wh fellow out wrer Jul Torr.

In the segment, none other than Osr wner Emma Stone tri to give life to the role of Deirdre, a mor female character a gay porn scene. Her attempts to fe a character who is sentially an cg cint -- a woman home to disver her godson, played by an actual gay porn star, Ty Mchell, is sleepg wh her hband -- wh a plex backstory is both gen and hilar. Gay ic Bowen Yang has joed the st of Saturday Night Live, beg the show’s first full-time st member om an Asian background.

Yang, whose parents are om Cha, is bt known as the -host of gay edy podst Las Culturistas, as well as for his viral lip-sync vios to dramatic monologu. The ic has prevly served as a staff wrer on the show durg s 44th season, -wrg a sk that featured Emma Stone as an actrs who is st a gay porn film as the cheated-on girliend. Yang, 29, was ngratulated on Twter by iends and fans, who poted out that he was one of only a few out gay men to have joed the SNL st.

COMEDIAN BOWEN YANG MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY-GAY, ASIAN 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' CAST MEMBER

Bowen Yang is first gay Asian ic on SNL.

One supporter tweeted: “First Asian st member and also one of the VERY few openly gay men on the st.

Another joked: “if you tly re about asian reprentatn, you mt venmo all your gay asian male iends $5 to ngratulate them on this victory.

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