'Supergirl' Actrs Chyler Leigh on Her Character Realizg She's Gay - Variety

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• IS CHYLER LEIGH GAY?
• ‘SUPERGIRL’ ACTRS CHYLER LEIGH TALKS ABOUT HER CHARACTER’S REALIZATN SHE’S GAY

IS CHYLER LEIGH GAY?

Leigh currently stars on the CW’s Supergirl as Alex Danvers, the openly gay sister of Kara Danvers. In Season 2 of Supergirl on The CW, Alex Danvers out as gay after meetg the lbian police officer Maggie Sawyer (Floriana Lima). “They’re like, ‘So this year Alex is gog to be gay, ’ ” says Leigh.

’ And at the same time bought her ic books that show different [gay] characters, like Batwoman, and showed her all the different stori that she uld hang on to, bought her ffee, sat and jt listened to this girl, and this girl jt sobbed and jt let out. While Alex is a creatn unique to the TV seri, the character of Maggie Sawyer was troduced 30 years ago an issue of Superman, where she quickly beme a trailblazer as one of the earlit openly gay characters mastream ic books.

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‘SUPERGIRL’ ACTRS CHYLER LEIGH TALKS ABOUT HER CHARACTER’S REALIZATN SHE’S GAY

He add, “I thk the bt answer I have is I’m not not gay. Stranger Thgs actor Noah Schnapp me out as gay the most Gen-Z way: a TikTok. ” In text on top, he wrote, “When I fally told my iends and fay I was gay after beg sred the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know.

Shay Mchell talked about her sexualy 2017, a big topic of nversatn at the time bee of her character Pretty Ltle Liars, who was openly gay. “People always ask me, ‘You play a gay character?