Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman is a gay Canadian actor and model who has been openly gay throughout his entire career, and who has made LGBTQ+ advocacy a consistent and central part of his public life. Born in Edmonton and of Jamaican and Japanese descent, he has spoken about the intersection of his racial and queer identities and the particular challenges of being a gay man of color in Hollywood. He gained recognition for playing gay producer Jay Carter in the Lifetime drama "UnREAL" (2015–2018), a razor-sharp satire of reality television production whose gay character was portrayed with surprising psychological complexity. In 2016, Bowyer-Chapman received the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award for his LGBTQ+ advocacy work. He has been outspoken about racism within LGBTQ+ communities and about the importance of intersectional visibility — insisting that queer representation must include queer people of color in full dimension. His other credits include "American Horror Story" and numerous fashion campaigns, where his visibility as a gay man of color has been an explicit and intentional political statement.