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Woah! Chicago Fire Lays the Groundwork For a P.D. Crossover Romance *No One* Saw Coming
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The CFD and CPD are known for their rivalry in One Chicago, but where there’s tension could breed love affair. At least that’s true for Darren Ritter’s new Chicago Fire boyfriend, who could set the stage for a future Fire-P.D. crossover romance.
Chicago Fire is NBC’s drama series following the personal and professional lives of firefighters and paramedics at the Chicago Fire Department’s fictional Firehouse 51 in Chicago, Illinois. The series — which was created by Dick Wolf, the same consciousness behind the Law & Order and FBI franchises — is the first of NBC’s One Chicago franchise, which also includes Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, and the since-cancelled Chicago Justice.
Ritter, played by Daniel Kyri, made his Chicago Fire in Season 7 as a recurring character before Kyri was promoted to a seri
Let’s talk about the LGBT Chicagoverse... or lack thereof
When I wrote my post about Schrödinger’s Same-sex attracted, I was tempted to slip into a rant about Chicago Med. But I figured maybe that deserves its own send. So here we are.
Let’s commence with the one that started it all. Chicago Fire.
Back when I got into this reveal, it was really refreshing because I’ve never seen a law-show focused on firefighters before. That was new, exciting. And on top of that, there was a lesbian main character! Foremost way to bait this woman loving woman right here!
And I liked Leslie. Until they buried the male lover and killed her off. Their only LGBT character and they killed her off. Most characters who leave that show just... move away. But the queer woman 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.
Now, Emily Foster is the only LGBT character. But oh, we’re not actually calling her bisexual - because it’s far more enjoyable having a character hold a five page essay woth monologue describing the act of creature bisexual than just ha
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"My character was only going to be around for a few episodes, so I don't think there was a lot of thought put into who guy was," said Daniel Kyri, the actor who plays Ritter on "Chicago Fire," now in its 13th season on NBC. "I just played the character as I saw him; I wasn't throwing out rainbows."
Lt. Paul Clark certainly knew he was gay when he started as an actual Chicago firefighter at the Wells Street Station in 1997.
"I was there about year and half, then I transferred to the West Side Douglass Park neighborhood and was there for nine years," said Clark. "That's where I cut my teeth on the job, a very busy firehouse, very poor neighborhood. I saw a small bit of everything."
Like Ritter, Clark played it low-key.
"I was never an in-your-face type of person," said Clark, 59. "I just, consciously or subconsciously, decided to enable guys figure it out on their own and notice how they react."
When the producers of "Chicago Fire" invited
‘Vibe attracts tribe’: ‘Chicago Fire’ star Daniel Kyri is thriving in his ‘unapologetic era’
Daniel Kyri says starring in “Chicago Fire” has “forced” him to widen an otherwise narrow view of what he thought was possible for him as a queer actor.
In the NBC legacy show, he plays a gay firefighter, Darren Ritter, who reckons with imposter syndrome and leans on veteran firefighters to champion his presence. The 28-year-old actor, who identifies as queer, tells TODAY.com how experiencing that on set has impacted his confidence.
“In a lot of ways, it’s forced me to grow up,” he says. “I was a person who had a lot of outdated, maybe even preconceived, notions about how to be a successful actor and the ways in which I imagined I’d hold to twist myself out of shape to fit into some kind of mold. The opportunity to just fully go there (on set) and be the representation that I needed when I was growing up is really, truly something that has made me as Daniel Kyri the actor blossom.”
Kyri joined “Chicago Fire” in season seven in 2018 and says he hopes both new and longtime viewers learn empathy from his character.
“I don’t fancy words like ‘tolerance’ and things like that because I be