![]() ![]() "My parents, loving and supportive and liberal as they now are, were not raised in a culture that made room for queer people," Scully says. He faced some growing pains in his coming out, as most do. His older sister's coming out and early support were crucial, as were the LGBTQ+ figures and stories he saw on television, like RuPaul and on HBO's Angels in America. Scully grew up doing musical theater in Texas, where he says his queerness was so obvious it was almost a foregone conclusion. Perhaps it's because his sexuality has been the fascination of outsiders for most of his life. There's no real good end game to this conversation." ![]() "Why do you really need to know? Forty's not gonna have sex with you ― he's a fictional character. "In our culture, it feels like sexuality and sexual expression and gender expression are still things that need to be investigated and searched through and then labeled clearly and stamped," he says. Scully understands viewers' need for clarity and want for representation, but he also finds the fascination disappointing. So I sort of enjoyed that it was not like intentionally ambiguous it just was what it was." "And then I think sometimes it's okay for queer characters to exist as we all do as people and not constantly be addressing that. "I think that sometimes it's important for queer characters' queerness to be at the center of the story," Scully tells them.
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