BREAKING NEW GROUND

lex Landi’s role in season 15 of “Grey’s Anatomy” might not be a particularly big one. At least not yet. And for sure it holds a particular significance for many worldwide communities and marks a huge breakthrough for the long-running medical drama. Ahead of its season 15 premiere, the show announced that Landi will be playing the series’ first gay male surgeon, Dr. Nico Kim, an orthopedic surgery fellow at Grey Sloan Memorial hospital. while the series has had no shortage of LGBT characters before this, like Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins—played by Sara Ramirez and Jessica Capshaw respectively, this is the first time that “Grey’s Anatomy” has introduced a gay male surgeon on its show. what’s more, he is also the first male