"As a gay guy myself, tonight's episo was so special to me," Borelli shared on Instagram.
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- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR JAKE BORELLI'S CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY. THEN HE DID TOO.
- MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR JAKE BORELLI'S CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY. THEN HE DID TOO.
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.
But to be clear, there were many stumbl durg those early years, as gay TV characters were quietly weaved to stori and met wh cidly mixed rults.
MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
It was 49 years ago this month that the first recurrg gay character on Amerin televisn ma his but — set signer Peter Panama on the ltle-known ABC s The Corner Bar.
Played by Vcent Schiavelli (Fast Tim at Ridgemont High, Ghost), Peter was met wh risn by, among others, the Gay Activists Alliance, which took issue wh the character’s flamboyance.
S to feature an openly gay lead character, though Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas drew siar cricism. Five episos to All The Fay‘s ne-season n, and nearly three s before Will & Grace arrived on the scene, seri creator/social trailblazer Norman Lear already had LGBTQ reprentatn on the bra when he troduced Ameri’s first gay s character the form of Archie’s old iend Steve (played by the late Phil Carey). In the 1971 episo, -penned by Lear and Burt Styler, ragg bigot Archie was forced to reckon wh his prenceived notns about homosexualy (not only was Steve a former lebacker, but, like Archie, he was a stnch nservative!