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The Teen Wolf Cast Gets Real About Inclusion and LGBT Representation

Teen Wolf Cast Talking About LGBT Representation

The Teen Wolf Cast Gets Real About Inclusion and LGBT Representation

July 27, 2016 by Ryan Roschke

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Creator Jeff Davis

On the importance of representing the LGBT community: "It's hugely important to me, as a gay man myself. I want to see representations on TV. I want to see, personally, I want to see relationships that are good. I also want to see — it's a little difficult for me, because I know there are certain sections of fandom that believe that . . . I know you want them to have a good death . . . but I don't believe LGBT characters are untouchable. We want the same dramatic things to happen to them. If we had good narrative reason to kill Mason, I would say, maybe . . . if it made a great story, you want to go where the great story takes you. But, I actually, I want to see gay relationships on TV so badly. I wish, you know, we had space to put other characters in that showed it . . . it's something that needs to be there."
On Khylin Rhambo, who plays Mason: "I have great respect and admiration for Khylin, because there are not many black, gay characters on television. It's a scary thing for a straight actor to play gay, because they believe they'll get typecast. So, he's been fearless about it, which is awesome."
On gay character deaths: "There's a bit too much focus on what you can do with those characters, what you can do with gay and lesbian characters. And eventually, hopefully, there'll be enough characters so that it won't feel like the trope, the 'kill your gays' trope. That a gay character can get killed off on a show, and it won't be a big deal because there are enough gay characters on television to make it not seem like it's an unusual thing."

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