The new CW seri, ‘Tom Swift,’ featur Tian Richards the leadg role. Now, many fans of the seri are wonrg if Tian and Tom are gay.
Contents:
- 'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE
- HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
- STT D. PIERCE: ‘TOM SWIFT’ IS SUPER GAY. MIKE LEE WILL HATE . (GREAT!)
- IS TOM SWIFT GAY? WHY DID THE AMERIN MYSTERY DRAMA TELEVISN SERI GET CANCELED?
- FIRST LOOK AT NANCY DREW SP-OFF STAR TOM SWIFT REVEALS TULAR GAY BILLNAIRE'S CHIC STYLE
- A BLACK, GAY BILLNAIRE INVENTOR IS HEAD TO TV THE CW’S NEW TOM SWIFT SERI
- 'TOM SWIFT': THE CW CANCELS SERI WH NETWORK TV'S FIRST BLACK GAY LEAD JT FIVE EPISOS INTO SEASON 1
'TOM SWIFT' SERI REIMAG THE CLASSIC BOOK CHARACTER AS A BLACK GAY BILLNAIRE
The trepid, gen ventor Tom Swift — whose eponymo book seri buted more than a century ago — has been reimaged as a Black gay billnaire a * is tom swift gay in the books *
The trepid, gen ventor Tom Swift — whose eponymo book seri buted more than a century ago — has been reimaged as a Black gay billnaire a new sci-fi mystery drama that expands the “Nancy Drew” universe on The by “Nancy Drew” shownners Noga Land and Melda Hsu Taylor and “Empire” wrer Cameron Johnson, “Tom Swift, ” which premier Tuday, follows the vilishly charmg ventor (played by Tian Richards) who is scribed as a young man “wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth” who many men would kill to be — or be wh. “I thk the spiratn for me om the fact that I’ve jt never seen a Black gay billnaire onscreen before, and I really wanted to see one.
HOW TOM SWIFT STAR TIAN RICHARDS ALS WH THE PRSURE OF BEG WORK TV'S FIRST GAY BLACK LEAD
CW seri prents Swift as “Black, gay Iron Man’ * is tom swift gay in the books *
Assistant, Barclay (voiced by LeVar Burton), whose sights and tough love have been a nstant throughout his an executive producer who is both Black and openly gay, Johnson said he wanted to create a show that not only felt thentic to his own experienc but also felt universal. “And the same way, [wh] ‘Tom Swift, ’ you may not be gay nor Black nor a billnaire … but you might regnize the fay dynamics and the prsure that we experience om our parents and the bonds that we build wh people who we tst — jt agast the backdrop of a really thentilly Black world. ”The rponsibily of playg one of work televisn’s first Black gay lead characters isn’t lost on Richards, whose actg creds clu the films “Burn, ” “Dumpl’” and “A Bad Moms Christmas.
“For Tom to be somebody who’s out, gay, Black, rich and has a darker sk tone — all the thgs that we never get to see look like this — that is so important for people to see, ” pecially STEM, he said. “And the versn of that is, everybody knows you’re gay, you’ve said you’re gay, but they jt ignore you and ntue to try to ph you a different directn.
“What I particularly love about The CW is that, the wrg of , they never asked to dial back or make ls gay, ” Johnson said.
STT D. PIERCE: ‘TOM SWIFT’ IS SUPER GAY. MIKE LEE WILL HATE . (GREAT!)
After 'Tom Swift' buted at the begng of Pri Month, seri star Tian Richards is reflectg on the prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead character. * is tom swift gay in the books *
“That is gog to be really excg and betiful and h, bee I don’t know that we get to see a love story like this wh a Black gay man at the center of as the object of sire that much, pecially one set a world of sci-fi.
IS TOM SWIFT GAY? WHY DID THE AMERIN MYSTERY DRAMA TELEVISN SERI GET CANCELED?
The new TV seri "Tom Swift" is about a Black, gay billnaire. Utah Sen. Mike Lee is gog to hate . * is tom swift gay in the books *
” The Tom Swift Tian Richards portrays is more like “a Black, gay Iron Man, ” Johnson told B+C. “It’s how to tell the story now of a Black gay man, ” said Land.
The project, which will feature a Black, gay lead the tle role, hails om Nancy Drew -creators/executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and their Fake Empire, and CBS Studs, where Schwartz and Savage are unr a al. Co-created by Nancy Drew’s Melda Hsu Taylor and Noga Land, wh Cameron Johnson (Empire), Tom Swift follows the serialized adventur of s tular Black, gay, billnaire ventor who is thst to a world of sci-fi nspiracy and unexplaed phenomena after the shockg disappearance of his father.
In addn to the velopment of a specific Tom Swift pilot script, the tular character will appear an episo of Nancy Drew the seri’ upg sophomore season.
FIRST LOOK AT NANCY DREW SP-OFF STAR TOM SWIFT REVEALS TULAR GAY BILLNAIRE'S CHIC STYLE
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The actor had, after all, already buted his character an episo of Nancy Drew a year prr, and the publicy surroundg his new sp-off seri always celebrated the fact that he was the first gay Black lead on work TV. Now, as the tular gay Black geni billnaire playboy ma character, Tom is a vilishly charmg, sexy, brilliant ventor wh unlimed rourc and unimagable wealth.
A BLACK, GAY BILLNAIRE INVENTOR IS HEAD TO TV THE CW’S NEW TOM SWIFT SERI
Tom Swift is a televisn seri based on the book seri, which is clearly gay. The lead role Tian Richards plays is the Black gay billnaire ventor who is thst to a world of sci-fi nspiracy and unexplaed phenomena followg his father's shockg disappearance. * is tom swift gay in the books *
Growg up Black and gay, he didn't see characters like himself the lead role or the center of any stori, let alone one that shows someone like him as a billnaire or brilliant ventor or playboy, and he n't help but wonr how his life might have been different if he had.
'TOM SWIFT': THE CW CANCELS SERI WH NETWORK TV'S FIRST BLACK GAY LEAD JT FIVE EPISOS INTO SEASON 1
" That's how Richards end up alg wh all the add prsure of playg work TV's first gay Black lead — by focg on all of Tom's layers and makg him a three-dimensnal human rather than a symbol for an entire muny. Wh playg a gay character, you don't want them to be an archetype or fall to a trope, and I ma sure to stay mdful of that. On the surface, he always knew he had a lot mon wh Tom as a gay Black man growg up today's world, but he had no ia jt how much the show was gog to change his life on an ternal level.
Bee the tle character is a Black, gay billnaire who’s not aaid to let people know who he is. )Lee, of urse, is aaid of gay people. And ’s moronic — there’s no evince that seeg LGBTQ+ characters on TV any way affects the sexual orientatn of that were te, wouldn’t the overwhelmg preponrance of straight characters have long ago changed the sexual orientatn of gay viewers?
And they pletely took out of ntext a ment by Karey Burke, print of Disney’s General Entertament, about creasg queer reprentatn the pany’s entertament ’s not about turng anyone gay, ’s about reprentatn.