![]() ![]() “It saddens me that this continues to be the case,” Rapp told me, saying despite the government’s actions, he remains encouraged. “His words mean nothing and his actions mean everything, and he’s saying everything he really believes in his actions.” “We have a president who cares very little for LGBT people,” he said. “I’m livid,” Cruz told me before Saturday night’s panel at the Paley Center. “These stories we tell are really important, so that people understand who we are, what our lives are like, and perhaps they will understand us and not hate us.”Ĭruz was quick to denounce the actions of the Trump administration to rollback LGBT rights and attempts to erase protections against discrimination. “We’ve worked together for 20 years, so it was so easy to create this together, because we have so much back history.”Ĭruz won applause during the evening event at the Paley Center for Media in midtown Manhattan, when he spoke up for transgender rights, called out violence based on gender identity and called for more LGBTQ representation in entertainment. They’ve been friends since they starred together on Broadway two decades ago. Hugh Culber, called Rapp his “space boo” on stage at New York Comic Con. His on-screen partner and costar, Wilson Cruz, who plays Dr. “I’m proud of the fact that none of that really matters in the show,” Rapp said, describing the portrayal of their relationship as “alive, truthful and human.” And fungus gets far more screen-time than his same-sex relationship on the CBS All Access streaming show, which is just fine with Rapp. Paul Stamets, which basically means he’s the foremost expert on fungus. Rapp plays the prickly, grumpy genius anastromycologist Lt. “I can’t say how much that means to me personally as a fan of the series and as a member of the LGBT community.” “I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of ‘Star Trek’ TV’s first gay couple,” actor Anthony Rapp of “Rent” fame told NBC News. The fact that for the first time in the 51-year history of “Star Trek,” out gay actors are playing gay characters in love, is not something CBS, its stars or its creators are either hiding or promoting. This blogpost includes original content not included with the article on NBC Out, and here appears in bold. Cruz has been a recurring guest on 25 Words or Less since This is in part a repost of my article first published on the LGBT silo of on October 13, 2017. He plays the openly gay best friend of a promiscuous woman who wants to know who got her pregnant so she can marry. In 2009, he also appeared/starred in the film The People I’ve Slept With. Cruz played Adrian in the 2007 film The Ode, which was based on Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s novel Ode to Lata. Cruz’s other film and television credits include the films Joyride (1996), All Over Me (1997), Supernova (2000), Party Monster (2003), Margaret Cho’s Bam Bam and Celeste (2005), Coffee Date (2007), and He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) and guest appearances on the shows Great Scott!, Sister, Sister, ER, Ally McBeal, The West Wing, Noah’s Arc, and Grey’s Anatomy. He also appeared as Rafael de la Cruz in the television series Raising the Bar. In the final season of Party of Five in 2000, he played Victor. In 1996, he co-starred in Johns with David Arquette as Mikey, a film about the daily struggles of male prostitutes. Edgar Hoover’s servant Joaquin in Oliver Stone’s Nixon and had a minor role in the television film On Seventh Avenue. Following the cancellation of My So-Called Life, Cruz went on to play J. Cruz became the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay lead character in an American television series. ![]() In 1994, he was cast in the short-lived, critically acclaimed cult classic TV series My So-Called Life as Enrique “Rickie” Vasquez, a troubled, gay teen. Cruz went to Hollywood to look for work as an actor, intending to be open about his sexuality from the start. ![]()
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