Future LGBTQ History Month: Asia Kate Dillon Is Pushing the Cultural Needle Forward

Fuse is celebrating Pride Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future LGBTQ History before our eyes. Today we are honoring Asia Kate Dillon, who is carving a new space in Hollywood for non-binary actors.

Before their big break in television (Dillon uses the singular they pronoun for non-binary gender identification), the Ithaca, N.Y. native studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan where they graduated from the Studio Program. The actor had a few guest roles in shows like Younger and Master of None before starring as the kind of lovable but very problematic Brandy Epps in that other popular Netflix show—Orange Is the New Black.