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Austin Evolving

Austin Crute represents the next generation of LGBTQ+ talent. With his latest role, as Lane on ABC’s new sitcom Call Your Mother, Crute is one of the few out actors on prime-time network television playing a queer character.

As a 25-year-old gay Black man, he knows the importance of this representation. Most gay characters on network TV have a aesthetic, where “they’re grown and figuring out how to have kids

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