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- '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
- JAKE BORELLI ON WHY GREY'S ANATOMY'S GAY BLOOD BAN STORY IS PERSONAL
- WHO PLAYS GAY SURGEON NIKO KIM ON GREY’S ANATOMY? ALEX LANDI IS READY FOR ROMANCE AND SURGERY
- GREY'S ANATOMY ACTOR JAKE BORELLI 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," Borelli shared on Instagram. * gay guy grey's anatomy *
It's rare to see a gay relatnship between men shown on a televisn show of Grey's liber, and the normalcy and emotns showg the two's love for one another are rehg. Callie Torr' father to Seattle Grace wh the pastor of their church and a plan to nvce his dghter she isn't gay this emotnal episo that shows a real look at how people of the LGBTQ+ muny n be treated by their own loved on. After she shouts at her father that he n't "pray away the gay, " Callie tells Arizona she don't need a fay who's not gog to accept her for who she is.
" Kyle explas to Callie how all he wanted was to make the day feel special, as the state of Washgton didn't regnize gay marriage as a real marriage.
Gay marriage fally beme legal jt 10 years ago Washgton, 2012, one year after this episo aired.
MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
The actor, who me out publicly around the same time as his character Levi a few years ago, is proud the show will she a light on the discrimatory polici around gay men and sex. * gay guy grey's anatomy *
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.
JAKE BORELLI ON WHY GREY'S ANATOMY'S GAY BLOOD BAN STORY IS PERSONAL
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“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. Here, the actor and those who know him reveal the story of the man behd Grey's Anatomy's first openly gay male surgeon.
2020, Borelli starred Freeform’s first gay romantic edy televisn movie, The Thg About Harry, portrayg the role of Sam Basilli, a young gay man startg his polil reer Chigo.
WHO PLAYS GAY SURGEON NIKO KIM ON GREY’S ANATOMY? ALEX LANDI IS READY FOR ROMANCE AND SURGERY
Niko Kim (played by Alex Landi), makg the first central gay romance the show’s history. Schmt admted that was the first time he had kissed another Out As GayBorelli was always aaid of g out publicly bee he believed that “if he me out publicly that his reer would end. So Borelli publicly me out as gay on his Instagram moments after his character’s g out scene was aired.
In his Instagram post, he wrote, “As a gay guy myself, tonight’s episo was so special to me. The beloved character, who me out as gay at the same time Jake Borelli, who portrays him, me out publicly, worked amid the trma of early COVID-19 last season, and suffered full-on burnout after losg his first patient unr the hospal's new trag method this season.
But for Borelli, a gay blood ban story that volv Levi Grey's Anatomy's 18th season fale (also the show's whoppg 400th episo), is eply personal.
GREY'S ANATOMY ACTOR JAKE BORELLI OUT AS GAY
"In preparg for the episo and talkg to people about this, I found that pecially om the straight muny, that there's this ia that oh, well, the blood ban is now no longer a lifetime blood ban for gay men, " he adds.
"You're fe as long as you don't have sex, as long as you don't partake sodomy, or if you don't get married, " Borelli says of ndnal acceptance of gay and bi men. "Borelli, 31, joed ABC's long-nng medil drama 2018, g out publicly as his character's gay storyle unfold not long after. I uldn't bee I knew that I was gay, " Borelli says.
Niko Kim is makg Grey’s Anatomy history as the first gay doctor to jo Grey Sloan Memorial Hospal.