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- ALEX LANDI: 10 THGS ABOUT THE FIRST ASIAN GAY MALE DOCTOR ON GREY’S ANATOMY
- MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
ALEX LANDI: 10 THGS ABOUT THE FIRST ASIAN GAY MALE DOCTOR ON GREY’S ANATOMY
The half-Korean, half-Italian actor, who joed the show s 15th season as the seri’ first proment gay male character, told Travis Mills on Beats 1 on Apple Mic: “I’m jt glad that I n give everyone a voice.
Landi’s character on Grey’s Anatomy has bee part of the show’s first major male gay romance. Even though the show is one of the most diverse on televisn (Callie Torr beme the longt nng LGBTQ character televisn history), there’s never been a homosexual relatnship at the foreont of a storyle. Buy the latt issue of Gay Tim.
"Asians are reprented, I thk, by ls than three percent entertament, LGBTQ beg ls than 1 percent, so for them to be both of those tegori to one role is super special, and I'm so happy that I n take that on, " Landi said (via Gay Tim). And now we're at the very begng of a new gay relatnship. Ni Kim the show’s first gay male doctor but he’s also s first Asian 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.