Lauren Morelli has known her ex-husband for six years and they had been married five months before she realized she was gay. This happened last year, after she started writing for the award-winning TV show, Orange is the New Black.
The 31-year-old came to this realization after writing about the main characters of the show and their tumultous but lovingly realistic lesbian relationships. She says,
‘In Piper and Alex, I’d found a mouthpiece for my own desires and a glimmer of what my future could look like.’ And she also I realized I was gay in fall 2012, one of my first days on the set.