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THE GOOD KIND OF TROUBLE

On a rainy night in late November, cast members from The Fosters’s spin-off Good Trouble supped on an upscale millennial dinner of gold-coated hot dogs and Ramen Alfredo on a set table in the back of a moving van emblazoned with the show’s title and parked several hundred yards below the Hollywood sign.

In a quintessentially oddball Hollywood moment, actors Sherry Cola and Tommy Martinez (right), whose characters carry forth commitment to LGBTQ representation, mingled with influencers and journalists while praising’s deeply queer pedigree. But as Cola and Martinez huddled together and sipped on smoking vodka cocktails and bit into gourmet bacon and donut sandwiches, another narrative emerged—that those involved with the intersectional had also become family.

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