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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
But Wiley, who married wrer Lren Morelli last year, wasn’t always fortable beg out as a gay woman offscreen.
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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
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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK MA TV—AND ME—GAY
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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.
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13 FUN PHOTOS! THE 'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' CAST CELEBRAT GAY PRI
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”.
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.
'ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK' STAR TAYLOR SCHILLG OUT GAY
“There is a ceilg that allows you to be a certa kd of gay, ” she said.
(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.