J. August Richards comes out as gay

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The Council of Dads star and Angel alum revealed he's gay in an emotional Instagram Live chat with co-star Sarah Wayne Callies. Richards noted that his NBC character is also a gay black man. “If I think about why I even got involved in this industry, it was really to combat oppression,” Richards 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. I wanted that image to be honest and I wanted it to be correct.”