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Contents:

• IS JAY HAYN GAY? HERE’S HOW HE APPROACH HIS ‘STATN 19’ ROLE
•  STATN 19 SEASON 3 EPISO 13 DREAM A LTLE DREAM OF ME EMMETT GAY TRAVIS LOVE LGBTQ QUEER ABC
• THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR
• BEG GAY THE FIREHOE
• HAPPY … AND GAY FIREFIGHTERS

IS JAY HAYN GAY? HERE’S HOW HE APPROACH HIS ‘STATN 19’ ROLE

Talkg to ET Canada  November 2020, the actor opened up about how he end up playg the gay character on the popular TV show.

Hayn further revealed what he was told him durg the meetg, We want to ntue to break the mold of the stereotypil gay character on televisn. Talkg about the sensivens of his character, Hayn said he felt "a rponsibily for all of my gay iends, " who reacted by sayg, "Don't you dare play like XYZ. "Given his excellent actg showsg, many onle ers were nvced enough to ask the qutn, "Is Jay Hayn Gay?

Y, Emmett Dixon (Lachlan Buchanan), the Fire Chief's son, fally nfsed he is gay. Statn 19 prevly troduced gay firefighter Travis Montgomery (Jay Hayn) who lost his hband and fellow firefighter some time before, which opened a slot on the team for newbie Ben Warren (Jason Gee), who stopped beg a surgeon to bee a firefighter.

 STATN 19 SEASON 3 EPISO 13 DREAM A LTLE DREAM OF ME EMMETT GAY TRAVIS LOVE LGBTQ QUEER ABC

While the actor who plays him, Jay Hayn, isn’t gay real life, the Statn 19 star has reprented Travis and the LGBTQ+ muny well om the start. Hayn plays Travis Montgomery, an openly gay firefighter at Statn 19 and widower who lost his hband, Michael Williams, a fire.

THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR

Is Jay Hayn gay real life om Statn 19? Hayn also told Hidn Remote that he was ncerned what his father would thk about him playg a gay character on televisn. To say ‘Dad, I’m playg a gay firefighter on a Shonda Rhim show, ’ he’s jt the bt guy the world and is like ‘Oh, ngratulatns’ but I don’t really know what’s gog on his head.

“The thg is I don’t really know how to play straight or play gay.

Hayn also revealed a nversatn he had wh a real firefighter who had seen other gay firefighters be discrimated agast. He’d been a New York firefighter for 25 years and he said that back the ’70s and ’80s: ‘Some of the bt guys back my day were gay and they were jt as strong and jt as tough and jt as heroic. There was no difference between them and ’s sad bee they uldn’t e out and uldn’t feel fortable lettg the other guys know they were gay.

BEG GAY THE FIREHOE

Physil Appearance of Travis Montgomery: An openly gay firefighter and the heart of Statn 19. I am also gay and have been for over four s.

To be both gay and uniform is not a betrayal; ’s hope that maybe one day we n fally get beyond this bullsh assumptn that the world n be divid to "" and "them. In 2003, his partment (for whom he had worked for 13 years and was both their senr officer and field trag officer) found out that he was gay and fired him immediately.

HAPPY … AND GAY FIREFIGHTERS

On June 12, 2016 a gunman opened fire on a gay nightclub Florida. But more relevant than that, on May 28, 2016, the Philalphia chapter of the Gay Officers Actn League was asked to rign as the grand marshals of that cy’s Gay Pri para. The gay muny Philalphia circulated a wildly popular petn clarg the police to be the enemy of the gay muny and mandg they be removed om what is supposed to be a celebratn of uny.

But overlooks an sential tth: To be both gay and uniform is not a betrayal of eher. My hband was an out, gay firefighter.