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Contents:
- HOW ‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ HELPED ME REALIZE I WAS GAY (COLUMN)
- SAMIRA WILEY REVEALS SHE WAS ACCINTALLY OUTED AS GAY BY HER 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CASTMATE
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
- 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' WRER LREN MORELLI OUT AS GAY
- ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
- 13 FUN PHOTOS! THE 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CAST CELEBRAT GAY PRI
- 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' STAR TAYLOR SCHILLG OUT GAY
HOW ‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ HELPED ME REALIZE I WAS GAY (COLUMN)
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SAMIRA WILEY REVEALS SHE WAS ACCINTALLY OUTED AS GAY BY HER 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CASTMATE
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But Wiley, who married wrer Lren Morelli last year, wasn’t always fortable beg out as a gay woman offscreen. “Someone om my st actually, durg the terview they were talkg about out gay actors the st…and they mentned my name and I saw prt, and I cried.
I cried a lot, ” Wiley nfsed, notg she went through “a journey” orr to feel fortable beg gay. 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.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, GAY, AND EVERYTHG BETWEEN
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'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' WRER LREN MORELLI OUT AS GAY
The on-screen drama "Orange Is the New Black" helped one of the show's wrers e to a realizatn about her own Lren Morelli me out as gay after examg issu of sexualy the procs of wrg the Netflix h, she says an say for PolicyMic. (Jsi Migl for Netflix)"I realized I was gay fall 2012, one of my first days on the set, " Morelli wrote.
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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
Alex Vse (former; kissed) - Alex and Penn are enemi Season One, thanks to her strict opposn to homosexualy. And you're not ved, bee they don't allow gay people on the rapture b! 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.
Most notably, the terveng years, gay marriage was legalized. We need to put a posive face on and all om this ternatnal homophobia, that are only certa thgs are good; that you n’t be that type of lbian. It’s important for me to munite that there’s nothg bad about beg gay.
”Tomorrow (23 Augt), DeLaria will lead Manchter’s Pri Para orr to promote “gay visibily”.
13 FUN PHOTOS! THE 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CAST CELEBRAT GAY PRI
Dpe Hollywood’s attempts to curb her butchns, DeLaria has always remaed unpromisgly te to herself, beg the first US openly gay ic to appear on late night televisn.
DeLaria wh fans at the San Francis Gay Pri Day June 2014“There was a stage when beg a lipstick lbian was hot, but that wasn’t me, ” she explaed.
”The 56-year-old – who has played both gay and straight rol – has always known she was a lbian, although g out was still a “difficult procs”. “There were no gay people on show when I me out, ” she said. “There is a ceilg that allows you to be a certa kd of gay, ” she said.
'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' STAR TAYLOR SCHILLG OUT GAY
(L-R) Samira Wiley, Alysia Reer, Lea DeLaria, Pablo Schreiber, Taryn Manng, Uzo Aduba, and Dascha Polan at the LA Gay & Lbian Center's 42nd Anniversary Vanguard Awards Gala November 2013“That type of woman is often brand as stupid, always pickg fights and treatg women badly, ” she said.
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. "The 35-year-old actrs, who plays the gay character of Piper Chapman the Netflix show, shared the image on her Instagram Story.