In her new seri, Fal plays Abigail “Tommy” Thomas, the first female Los Angel Chief of Police, who jt happens to be gay, and has a mixed race dghter.
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EDIE FAL HAS HER FIRST GAY STAGE KISS NEW CBS SERI ‘TOMMY’
I love the ia that she’s gay and that isn’t a part of the way she’s intifyg herself necsarily. I am not gay, but I know, if I image, que a b about what ’s like to be gay. I have a gay iend who said that growg up, he would see shows like Father Knows Bt.
Tommy is gay, and while Fal had no qualms about playg that aspect of the character, she was abashed about her first stage kiss. Dudik says, “Well, gay people are more pennt md by fn bee they are divergg om the majory view.
Tommy is still apologizg for not beg heterosexual to a dghter who rents her mother’s gayns and se as the reason they were never close. The story l are current and real, cludg nflicts wh ICE and undocumented folks, police vlence agast Black people, sex traffickg and the ubiquo anti-gay bias. In dog so, she not only be the first woman to hold that role the cy, but also the first gay woman to do so.