Alex Landi: 10 Thgs About The First Asian Gay Male Doctor On Grey’s Anatomy

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MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON

The actor, who me out publicly around the same time as his character Levi a few years ago, is proud the show will she a light on the discrimatory polici around gay men and sex. * gay asian guy 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.

ALEX LANDI: 10 THGS ABOUT THE FIRST ASIAN GAY MALE DOCTOR ON GREY’S ANATOMY

"As a gay guy myself, tonight's episo was so special to me," Borelli shared on Instagram. * gay asian guy grey's anatomy *

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. 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.

JAKE BORELLI ON WHY GREY'S ANATOMY'S GAY BLOOD BAN STORY IS PERSONAL

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Gay marriage fally beme legal jt 10 years ago Washgton, 2012, one year after this episo aired.

"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.

'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR JAKE BORELLI'S CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY. THEN HE DID TOO.

Here, the actor and those who know him reveal the story of the man behd Grey's Anatomy's first openly gay male surgeon.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GREY'S ANATOMY JT CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON?

Ni Kim the show’s first gay male doctor but he’s also s first Asian male surgeon. Why is the only male Asian a gay guy (nothg wrong wh that, but why is the only guy on the show?

WHO PLAYS GAY SURGEON NIKO KIM ON GREY’S ANATOMY? ALEX LANDI IS READY FOR ROMANCE AND SURGERY

The beloved character, who me out as gay at the same time Jake Borelli, who portrays him, me out publicly, worked amid the trma of early COVID-19 last season, and suffered full-on burnout after losg his first patient unr the hospal's new trag method this season.

But for Borelli, a gay blood ban story that volv Levi Grey's Anatomy's 18th season fale (also the show's whoppg 400th episo), is eply personal. "In preparg for the episo and talkg to people about this, I found that pecially om the straight muny, that there's this ia that oh, well, the blood ban is now no longer a lifetime blood ban for gay men, " he adds.

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