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ICHELLE PARADISE’S two seasons as the executive producer and showrunner of has seen her become an integral member of the new guard of writers who are expanding the narratives to be explicitly more inclusive of LGBTQ+ stories and characters. was created by queer writer Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman, and in the debut season, they introduced the first openly gay characters and couple in episodic ’s history, in the guise of Engineer Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Doctor Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz).
