The actor talks about how the gay drama picted subjects like HIV and effemate gay men, and his own cisn to bee a father.
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DARRYL STEPHENS B, DATG, GAY, FAY
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We rarely see effemate gay men on TV who are three-dimensnal characters centered a Stephens: I thk that was what was betiful about the show. It was straight guerrilla until Logo me to the picture bee HRC and Black AIDS Instute had fund this pilot and the promotnal clips that we were takg around the untry for Black Gay Pri events and Logo ught, we were on a soundstage near the airport sudnly wh a full crew and was like, "Oh, so this is actually happeng now. I don't talk about this very often, but had me a ltle wary of gog to Black gay bars bee I felt like I uldn't jt sort of walk up to somebody and be like, "Hey, how are you?
DS: What was tertg about the first season of Noah's Arc, that year, I shot a movie lled Boy Culture and I shot a movie lled Another Gay Movie and I played very different men those two films. I'll jt h a pot where they n out of gay characters and there's nothg left for you to do. I feel like wh time, gay characters have bee more central and normalized televisn and so I keep even the Noah's Arc fans, every time I did somethg else were like, "Oh, but you'll always be Noah to me.
Gay men have to plan the a year and a half before, I booked Twenti, I booked Good Trouble, I was on Lovecraft Country.