After his character shared the first gay male kiss on the h drama, Borelli ma his own statement onle.
Contents:
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
- 'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR JAKE BORELLI'S CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY. THEN HE DID TOO.
- MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
- GREY'S ANATOMY ACTOR JAKE BORELLI OUT AS GAY
- HELLO, I AM ALL THE WAY HERE FOR THIS NEW GAY ROMANCE ON GREY'S ANATOMY
'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
"As a gay guy myself, tonight's episo was so special to me," Borelli shared on Instagram. * is glasses gay on grey's anatomy *
Jake Borelli, the actor who plays him, did, Thursday, after the long-nng medil drama troduced s first-ever gay romance and male-on-male kiss between Schmt and new character Ni Kim (Alex Landi), Borelli celebrated the landmark moment on Instagram. “As a gay guy myself, tonight’s episo was so special to me, " the 27-year-old wrote. "This is exactly the kd of story I craved as a young gay kid growg up Oh, and blows my md that I’m able to brg life to Dr.
Shownner Krista Vernoff told Entertament Weekly that she was spired to wre the gay romance for Borelli's character bee Schmt remd her of a iend llege "who was sort of a clumsy, fumferg type who would trip over his own feet and would stutter, and then he me out toward the end of our hman year and emerged as a pletely different human beg bee he was livg his tth. Actor Jake Borelli remembers that when he was a kid growg up Oh, he sperately wanted to see gay characters on Thursday’s episo of Grey’s Anatomy, he was one of the actors featured the show’s first gay male romance, between his character, tern Dr. The two shared a kiss, and Schmt me out as gay.
'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR JAKE BORELLI'S CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY. THEN HE DID TOO.
“As a gay guy myself, tonight’s episo was so special to me. This is exactly the kd of story I craved as a young gay kid growg up Oh, and blows my md that I’m able to brg life to Dr.
“As a lbian myself, you have no ia how much means that gay people are out there reprentg gay characters, ” add another.
“This is hontly such an amazg thg, ” he wrote, “As a gay man myself, is so great to see you be able to be yourself real life and on tv.
MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
When shownner Krista Vernoff lled this summer to say Levi would be part of the first gay male romance on the ABC h drama, he didn't expect to fd himself facg his own life-alterg cisn. " On Thursday night, immediately followg the Wt Coast airg of Grey's and Levi's own g out, Borelli took to Instagram to tell the world he is gay.
He wrote, "As a gay guy myself, tonight's episo was so special to me. Vernoff tells EW that the ia for this storyle actually me not om a place of wantg to do a gay romance, but rather tryg to fd a new, pellg arc for Borelli.
GREY'S ANATOMY ACTOR JAKE BORELLI OUT AS GAY
"I've known that I was gay sce I was very young, 8th or 9th gra, and I me out to myself around that time. "In his own way, 's how he feels fortable sayg, 'I'm gay, '" says Borelli. Knight me out unr tense media scty and prsure the wake of a sndal volvg -star Isaiah Washgton g a gay slur on set.
HELLO, I AM ALL THE WAY HERE FOR THIS NEW GAY ROMANCE ON GREY'S ANATOMY
"I had all the giant, inic televisn shows tellg me that 's ok to be gay, 's ok to be out, and growg up that environment for the last 10 years had ma a ltle b more of a welg environment for me to e out right now.
"As a gay guy, you have to e out all the time. People thk g out is the first time [someone] says they're gay when realy g out is a nstant procs, " he says.