‘Supergirl’ Season 2 Casts Gay Cop Maggie Sawyer wh Floriana Lima – TVLe

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• SUPERGIRL CASTS GAY COP MAGGIE SAWYER
• ‘SUPERGIRL’ ADDS ‘THE FAY’ GRAD AS GAY DC CHARACTER MAGGIE SAWYER (EXCLIVE)

SUPERGIRL CASTS GAY COP MAGGIE SAWYER

“They’re like, ‘So this year Alex is gog to be gay, ’ ” says Leigh. ’ And at the same time bought her ic books that show different [gay] characters, like Batwoman, and showed her all the different stori that she uld hang on to, bought her ffee, sat and jt listened to this girl, and this girl jt sobbed and jt let out. While Alex is a creatn unique to the TV seri, the character of Maggie Sawyer was troduced 30 years ago an issue of Superman, where she quickly beme a trailblazer as one of the earlit openly gay characters mastream ic books.

KEY POINTSChyler Leigh adms she n relate to her "Supergirl" character's g out storyAlex Danver me out as gay "Supergirl" Season 2Leigh and Floriana Lima were humbled by how their on-screen romance is emed signifint by viewers Chyler Leigh opens up about her sexualy and how she n relate to her character “Supergirl. ”In “Supergirl” Season 2, Leigh’s character me out as gay. Executive producer Greg Berlanti, DC’s TV shepherd and an openly gay man himself, already ma the small-screen ‘verse more clive of the LGBTQ muny wh characters like Sara Lance (formerly Black Canary, now Whe Canary on Legends of Tomorrow) and Nyssa al Ghul on Arrow, as well as Hartley Rathaway (a.

‘SUPERGIRL’ ADDS ‘THE FAY’ GRAD AS GAY DC CHARACTER MAGGIE SAWYER (EXCLIVE)

One of the first openly gay characters mastream ics, she has long been associated wh Superman tl as a highly skilled member of the Science Police, a divisn of the police partment that als wh metahumans. The CBS-turned-CW seri has tapped Floriana Lima (The Fay) for the seri regular role spired by the gay DC Comics character, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Addnally, Maggie was revealed to be a lbian the Superman tl, makg her one of the first openly homosexual characters mastream ics.