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- CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
- ‘CHIGO FIRE’ CHARACTER CELEBRATED BY FANS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
CHIGO FIRE'S DANIEL KYRI OPENS UP ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY ON THE SHOW
Daniel Kyri's character Darren Rter, troduced last season, me out as gay on last week's episo of NBC's Chigo Fire and fans were enthed. Rter's * gay couple chicago fire *
NBC News terviewed Kyri about his recently-upgrad role on "Chigo Fire, " highlightg, particular, a moment which Rter out as gay the show's eighth season as a notable landmark his tenure on the show. "Bee my web seri felt like a kd of g out, " Kyri said, mentg on how he felt after learng about the "Chigo Fire" wrers' plans for Rter, "this historic moment the ntext of the 'One Chigo' world, for this Black, male character to e out as gay this blue-llar, first-rponr world, I wanted to do jtice.
After tablishg himself on the Chigo theater scene lol productns of “Hamlet, ” “Macbeth” and “Objects the Mirror, ” Daniel Kyri has ma a succsful transn to episodic televisn, starrg as Darren Rter, an openly gay Black firefighter, on the h NBC procral drama “Chigo Fire. Durg that time, he has been able to work “anilly and llaboratively” wh the wrers — who, he said, “are so good at strikg such a lovely, well-balanced tone between edy and drama, between the everyday and the adrenale-ducg” — to rporate parts of his own inty and lived experience to his breakout the wrers ntued to wre him to major plotl, Kyri disvered that his character was gog to e out as gay at the start of the eighth season.
“Bee my web seri felt like a kd of g out, and then [wh] this historic moment the ntext of the ‘One Chigo’ world, for this Black, male character to e out as gay this blue-llar, first-rponr world, I wanted to do jtice, more importantly, ” he said. Daniel Kyri's character Darren Rter, troduced last season, me out as gay on last week's episo of NBC's Chigo Fire and fans were enthed.
‘CHIGO FIRE’ CHARACTER CELEBRATED BY FANS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
"They met a woman who was gay and who was an EMT, " she said.
They thought she was jt so matter-of-fact, so ol and so pletely voted to the job, and what a great opportuny was to tell a very ground, real story about someone who 'oh, by the way, she's gay.
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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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