‘It’s Huge To Tell A Story Of A Trans Man Of Color’: Leo Sheng On Season 2 Of Showtime’s ‘The L Word: Generation Q’

(CBS Local)– A fewer years ago, Leo Sheng was studying astatine the University of Michigan to get a master’s grade successful societal work. Today, the transgender histrion is 1 of the stars of the “The L Word: Generation Q” wherever helium plays Micah Lee. Season 2 of the deed bid returns to Showtime connected Sunday, August 8 astatine 10pm EST/PST.

CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith precocious talked with Sheng astir what fans tin expect from the caller play of the series, the value of representing everyone successful the LGBTQ+ assemblage and however helium went from studying societal enactment astatine the University of Michigan to being the prima of a deed TV amusement successful Hollywood.

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“One of the things I emotion truthful overmuch is that we truly get to research queerness and each of its galore facets,” said Sheng. “With that successful mind, I’m precise excited for Micah’s travel and experiencing much extracurricular of the travel helium has already been on. He explores a caller way and finds retired much astir himself. As we determination guardant successful advancement for trans representation, and particularly transmasculine representation, for maine it’s immense to archer a communicative of a trans antheral of colour and research his experiences.”

Sheng loves however his quality Micah profoundly values his race, but is portrayed arsenic a full idiosyncratic with aggregate layers. He says it has been an grant to archer the communicative of an East Asian trans man.

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“There is nary azygous trans experience,” said Sheng. “I deliberation that is what we are knowing successful talking astir it successful a much mainstream way. We person these stories on-screen and they are truly idiosyncratic stories. I deliberation determination is simply a batch of unit that tin spell connected anyone who is progressive with that story. It’s an idiosyncratic journey.”

“The archetypal trans idiosyncratic I saw connected TV was Max successful the archetypal L Word,” said Sheng. “There’s much stories than erstwhile generations and they’re inactive precise limited. They’re inactive predominately achromatic and trans masculine. It’s unthinkable and it is specified an grant and a acquisition and I’ve received truthful galore messages. That’s 1 of the astir rewarding pieces of this due to the fact that it is truly making radical think.”

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Watch “The L Word: Generation Q” connected Showtime and watercourse play 1 of the bid close present connected the Showtime app.