9-1-1 star Oliver Stark on Buck’s bisexuality and why Buddie fans ‘aren’t wrong’
9-1-1 star Oliver Stark speaks exclusively with GAY TIMES about Buck’s bisexuality journey, his chemistry with Ryan Guzman and whether Buddie “will end up going there”.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY WIL COHEN “I do believe, or at least hope, they seem to be dying out,” laughs Oliver Stark.
The British actor is manifesting the much-needed and deserved extinction of 9-1-1’s anti-LGBTQIA+ mob, who were – sadly, but predictably – out in full force after his mainstay character Evan “Buck” Buckley embraced his status as a bi-con in the procedural drama’s seventh season.
Stark proceeded to showcase his LGBTQIA+ allyship by issuing a statement in which he condemned the biphobes and told them to, basically, piss off. “I wondered if I should bother even saying something to them because, do I even wanna give them the time of day?” Stark tells GAY TIMES over Zoom. “I think the most important aspect was to put a message out for the other people, for the people who were supportive of the storyline and to make sure they knew I wasn’t at all swayed away from it and I’m proud to be telling this story.” ‘Refreshing’ is how fans – and Stark – describe the handling of Buck’s sexuality.
