Chicago fire gay character

Here are characters who are a part of the LGBTQIA+ community: Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Daniel Kyri recently opened up about how his Chicago Fire character, Darren Ritter, came out as gay on the series. Ritter is the first openly gay firefighter on Chicago Fire and one of the few LGBTQ+ main characters featured throughout the series, along with paramedic Leslie Shay.

Like the rest of One. After establishing himself on the Chicago theater scene in local productions of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Objects in the Mirror,” Daniel Kyri has made a successful transition to episodic. Dick Wolf's 'Chicago Fire' had one openly gay character in its first two seasons, but the character was killed off inviting the ire of many viewers.

We take a look at the franchise's lack of LGBTQ+ representation. But I figured maybe that deserves its own post. So here we are.

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That was new, exciting. And on top of that, there was a lesbian main character! Best way to bait this lesbian right here! And I liked Leslie. Until they buried the gay and killed her off. Their only LGBT character and they killed her off. Most characters who leave that show just But the lesbian had to be killed off. And then it took them four whole seasons before introducing a new LGBT character.

Like, not just a new main LGBT character. Generally there were no other LGBT characters. Leslie had been the only one. Not to mention the fact that One is Denise, the trans sister of one of the main characters, Maggie Lockwood.

Denise first showed up as early as season 2. For one episode, until she disappeared again until this season - two years later. Again only for one episode. Two appearances over three seasons. See, she came back to introduce her sister to her boyfriend. Her CIS sister then confronts him, threatens him, chases him away to get Denise out of the abusive relationship - and then act like a martyr toward Denise by not telling her about the transphobic behavior he displayed toward Maggie, so Maggie graciously took the blame for the abusive boyfriend leaving - also effectively chasing Denise away in a manner that Literally all we got on him was that he was not very sure in his own abilities as a doctor And then suddenly he comes out to one of the main characters with one throwaway line.

Lastly, we have Chicago PD - but actually Since, even after six seasons, there has never been any LGBT character on this show. I love the Chicagoverse. I am deeply invested in these idiots, I am eager for every crossover between the shows because it means I get my idiots from different shows together. Sign up Log in.