Gender-nonconforming actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell make history with Tony nominations

A big congratulations to Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot and Alex Newell of Shucked for making history today as the first gender-nonconforming actors to be nominated for Tony Awards.

I applaud their talent and their courage in living out loud as their authentic selves.

It seems some people have a problem with that but, thankfully, not the American Theatre Wing who present the awards each June to Broadway’s best.

Ghee is nonbinary and Newell is gender-nonconforming, and both of them use the pronouns he, she and they. Gender-nonconforming is an umbrella term that includes people who don’t follow traditional ideas about how they should look or act based on their assigned sex at birth. Nonbinary people, who are neither exclusively male nor female, can be gender-nonconforming.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Alex Newell (@thealexnewell)