These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. “That was the beginning of a real relationship with my father, and it all came because of a show that so many people still come to me and say, ‘That show changed my life.’”Ĭruz played the groundbreaking character Rickie Vasquez on the show and became the first out gay actor to play an out gay character as a television series regular. “Unbeknownst to me, my father watched that episode when it aired and, as the credits are rolling, he calls me and says, ‘I think it’s time that we talk.’” The episode “was about my character’s own situation where he was kicked out of his house because he was gay,” Cruz explained. There, in the bathroom on Christmas Eve, my father asked me and I answered honestly, and he kicked me out of the house.”įor the next three months, until My So-Called Life began filming, Cruz alternated between staying with friends and living in his car.Īfter a year of not speaking to his father, it was an episode from the show that began to change their relationship. He was drunk and decided that was when he was going to ask. I had brought my best friend from high school, a guy. “My father asked me on Christmas Eve a couple months later… We had all of our family there, and my father asked me why I hadn’t brought a girl. “My mother asked first, and it was OK, she had a Catholic Latina mom breakdown and then she was fine. “I made a bet with the universe, the next time one of them asks me, I will come out to them,” he said.
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