As Netflix’s ‘The Upshaws’ Wraps, Out Actor Jermelle Simon Continues To Inspire On and Off Screen

As Netflix’s ‘The Upshaws’ Wraps, Out Actor Jermelle Simon Continues To Inspire On and Off Screen

Before actor and Florence, SC, native Jermelle Simon landed his breakout role as Bernard, an out gay UPS worker on the hit Netflix series “The Upshaws,” he was just a young Black boy navigating his truth in an environment where being anything other than heterosexual was not an option. It was the same environment, with [...] The post As Netflix’s ‘The Upshaws’ Wraps, Out Actor Jermelle Simon Continues To Inspire On and Off Screen first appeared o…