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'WE WANT YOU TO BE GAYER': 'DR. KEN' STAR JONATHAN SLAV ON BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR HOLLYWOOD

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23, on ABC—said that he intifi wh the feelg of havg to jump over hurdle after hurdle even when you know full well that your path should be Pulls a Charlottville"On one of the shows I did a while ago, someone got dnk and told me that there had been a meetg after the show got picked up so they uld figure out what to do about my gayns, " the actor said a phone terview last Thursday. "The 47-year-old actor, whom TV viewers might remember for his rol on Better Off Ted and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, told me that he's even been fired on acunt of his sexualy on at least one ocsn, and that's not even untg all of the smaller homophobic ments that have piled up behd stg room doors over the past two-pl is progrs yet to be ma when to the kds of opportuni afford to openly gay actors Hollywood, but Slav remaed optimistic about the future throughout the urse of our nversatn, which also touched on what 's like to play a gay character who isn't sexualized on Dr.

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That would've ma a big difference my life—would've ma me a lot ls suicidal—if I uld've seen gay people like that on televisn as a kid.

I'm glad to be a part of you ever played gay characters who weren't allowed to be affectnate or physilly timate wh their signifint others? I don't thk there's an actor my age who plays gay characters who hasn't had that experience. I've been the funny asexual gay who never talks about their relatnships.

I've been the gay world for a long time, and I know that the young hot twentysomethg they might st would never go out wh me. ] My other requt was that they fd another gay actor for the role.