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HBO Actor Accuses SNL of Blacklisting ‘Openly Gay People’

Tim Bagley said that Lorne Michaels “did not hire gay people, so I never got to audition.”

Comedian James Adomian told the Daily Beast in 2018 that he thinks being openly gay kept him from getting a spot on the cast, though he did get to audition several times in the early 2000s. In fact, SNL ’sfirst openly gay cast member was Terry Sweeney, who Michaels hired when he returned as executive producer to the show after a five-year hiatus in 1985. NBC/Virginia Sherwood/NBC via Getty And yet, despite the progress, Bagley claimed that Michaels was still adjusting to the idea of having a gay cast member when Kate McKinnon first openly acknowledged her sexuality to Rolling Stone in 2016.

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