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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D's J. August Richards Comes Out as Gay

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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Council of Dads star J. August Richards has come out as gay. The 46-year-old actor revealed his sexual identity during an Instagram Live with his Council of Dads co-star Sarah Wayne Callies.

In the show, he plays Dr. Oliver Post, a gay black man who is married with a daughter. “If I think about why I even got involved in this industry, it was really to combat oppression,” J. said. “I knew how I was affected by the people of color I saw on television, or that I didn’t see on television, so this being a married, gay man, with a family … on television, I don’t take anything I do lightly, and you have an opportunity to put an image into millions of homes.

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