Tommy Dorfman: Reasons to Love the Gay Star of '13 Reasons Why'

Contents:

• IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
• IS 13 REASONS WHY STILL GOOD FOR THE GAYS?
• IS TONY GAY ’13 REASONS WHY’? — SEASON 1 SPOILERS
• GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
• IS TONY GAY '13 REASONS WHY'? HERE'S HOW THE TV SHOW ADDS LGBTQ CHARACTERS.

IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

Navarro as Tony PadillaAfter portrayg a gay character, actor Christian Navarro has been surround by mors about his sexualy.

"Getty ImagGetty ImagThere was no rmatn about his private life for a long time, which only heated the mors about his gay nature even though one terview, Navarro revealed he had a csh on geo female boxer Paige VanZant.

IS 13 REASONS WHY STILL GOOD FOR THE GAYS?

Among her clost iends is her fellow -star, Tommy Dorfman, wh whom she shar a matchg semilon tattoo, alongsi Selena sce Dorfman is openly gay and has even been married for a while, they are fely jt good iends.

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Before landg the role of queer tellectual Ryan on the new Netflix seri 13 Reasons Why, Tommy Dorfman wasn't lookg to play gay characters. "I've had a lot of securi about beg gay this dtry, " says the actor, whose part the ensemble mystery, executive produced by Selena Gomez and adapted om Jay Asher's 2007 YA novel, marks his first profsnal gig.

IS TONY GAY ’13 REASONS WHY’? — SEASON 1 SPOILERS

"I'd love to play the first gay superhero, " he says, "or do the first big-budget gay rom-. I uldn’t look away, until the show’s endg, which mak me never want to rewatch the seri, even s more enjoyable stranger to ntroversy, #13Reasons has been triggerg the natn for four years now, alg wh heavy topics such as suici, rape, portatn, fay separatn, divorce, r accint, sports juri, homophobia school shootgs, dg abe, prostutn, police btaly, child abe and so many more. The Stigma Around HIVWhile HIV/AIDS is not strictly a gay issue, they take the bnt of the blame for the disease.

The Red Cross has refed gay male blood outright, and now do not allow gay men to donate blood wh 3 months of participatg gay sex.

GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON

The rebuttal do not do enough to stigmatize the homophobia the statement. As has been the se popular media for forty years, gay sex is a ath sentence.

There were a number of pots that uld have been articulated to avoid the terrible, terrible mishandlg of Jt’s ath, and number of sentiments that uld have been munited orr to stigmatized beg gay and/or livg wh HIV. If they jt HAD to kill Jt om this disease, they uld have at least ed a number of the gay characters on the show to “e out” as HIV posive and stigmatize the disease by showsg their healthy, Tony Padilla’s boxg-ach turned boyiend, one of the few characters on the show whout a last name, would have been a great example, and an opportuny to raise awarens for the fact that HIV disproportnally affects black men.

IS TONY GAY '13 REASONS WHY'? HERE'S HOW THE TV SHOW ADDS LGBTQ CHARACTERS.

Caleb mentned multiple tim that he had no tert boxg profsnally due to homophobia the boxg muny, but beg boxed out due to disease would have ma an tertg plot pot for Calab (who uld have at least been given a last name given all of the screen time he received and how important he was to Tony) Foundry, a villaque school admistrator brought to e nflict Season 4, somewhat randomly me out wh his partner to Alex and Charlie durg prom (they were chaperon at the dance). She had two gay dads, and felt like, sce they went through so much beg gay parents, that havg her turn out as queer would make them look like bad parents.

Gay Men did not have to be Jt’s killer. Instead of turng gay sex to a punishment, which The Red Cross already do, but plenty of HIV-related s are ed om dg abe, the sharg of needl. Most gay men are regularly tted, many are on prep, and most posive dividuals are aware of their stat, do not want to spread , and the path to beg untectable is clearer than ever and full of, this is an extreme suatn, but why Oakland?