Contents:
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
- HOW ‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ HELPED ME REALIZE I WAS GAY (COLUMN)
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
- 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' WRER LREN MORELLI OUT AS GAY
- 13 FUN PHOTOS! THE 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CAST CELEBRAT GAY PRI
- DO ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK FALL INTO THE ‘BURY YOUR GAYS’ TROPE?
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
Lren Morelli, a former Orange is the New Black wrer and -executive producer, wrote an op-ed 2014 tailg her g-out journey, tled “While Wrg for Orange is the New Black, I Realized I Was Gay.
HOW ‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ HELPED ME REALIZE I WAS GAY (COLUMN)
Most notably, the terveng years, gay marriage was legalized.
As the first season gaed massive and mastream populary, I watched iends embrace gay culture and the unfiltered reprentatn of whout battg an eyelash.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
The years of anxiety I felt about beg gay melted away mut. Case pot: In October, The CW will break ground wh Batwoman, the first live-actn drama seri revolvg entirely around a lbian superhero who also is played by an openly gay actrs (hello aga, Ruby Rose). Not only is Orange is the New Black highly addictg— was released on Netflix all at once, so many viewers bge-watched all 13 episos—but on top of that, tackl several ntroversial issu like sexualy, homophobia, patriarchy, class, and race, often simultaneoly.
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(Jsi Migl for Netflix)"I realized I was gay fall 2012, one of my first days on the set, " Morelli wrote.
'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' WRER LREN MORELLI OUT AS GAY
Netflix Releas 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 2 TrailerOn Sunday, a few of the stars of the Netflix show - cludg Danielle Brooks (Taystee), Samira Wiley (Posey), Dascha Polan (Dayanara), Yael Stone (Morello), Matt McGorry (Bent) -attend the Gay Pri Para New York Cy. Meanwhile, at the other end of the untry Lea DeLaria, or Boo, attend the Gay Pri ftivi San Francis.
13 FUN PHOTOS! THE 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CAST CELEBRAT GAY PRI
But more poted, and more troublg this se, is that Posey Washgton’s sexual orientatn mak her one on a ightengly long list of gay characters who don’t get to survive their own TV narrativ. For a sense of how wispread and furiatg this trend has been, browse through Autostraddle’s list of 160 ad gay and lbian characters on TV, nsir the ongog reverberatns of Lexa’s ath on The 100, read more about why that particular ath mattered, or jt scroll down the “Bury Your Gays” entry TV Trop.
DO ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK FALL INTO THE ‘BURY YOUR GAYS’ TROPE?
OITNB, nversely, Posey’s ath to illtrate exactly the issue that “Bury Your Gays” seeks to highlight. Lchfield is full of gay and bisexual mat — Bayley uld’ve leaned too hard on Nicky’s back and killed her stead.