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- ‘TOO GAY TO FUNCTN’? MEAN GIRLS ACTOR OUT LETTER TO CHARACTER TEN YEARS AFTER FILM RELEASE
- TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
- FOR MEAN GIRLS ON BROADWAY, "TOO GAY TO FUNCTN" IS A MANTRA
- TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
‘TOO GAY TO FUNCTN’? MEAN GIRLS ACTOR OUT LETTER TO CHARACTER TEN YEARS AFTER FILM RELEASE
Ten years after the release of the film, an actor who played Damien Mean Girls has e out as gay. * too gay to function character *
Ten years after the release of the film, an actor who played Damien Mean Girls has e out as gay. In a letter to the character, dubbed “too gay to functn” the h teen edy, Daniel Franze has wrten a letter to the character addrsg issu such as typestg.
TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
15 years sce Mean Girls' release, the actor reflects on Hollywood's "gay glass ceilg," holdg out for eper queer characters, and his favore moments om the inic film. * too gay to function character *
In the letter, origally published on IndieWire mends the character Damien for beg “lghed wh stead of at”, but says he turned down other gay characters for fear of beg trapped by the “gay glass ceilg”.
But this was a natural and te reprentatn of a gay teenager – a character we lghed wh stead of at.
However, I did turn down many offers to play flamboyant, feather-boa-slgg stereotyp that always seemed to be lghed at BECAUSE they were gay. How uld I go om playg an spiratnal, progrsive gay youth to the embarrassg, cliched butt-of-a-joke?
FOR MEAN GIRLS ON BROADWAY, "TOO GAY TO FUNCTN" IS A MANTRA
* too gay to function character *
I didn’t go to any gay bars, have any flgs and I lied to anyone who asked if I was gay.
TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
Grey Henson, who plays Damian the Broadway productn of 'Mean Girls,' tells how he updated the inic gay character for 2018. * too gay to function character *
(It’s important to note that I was actually DISCOVERED sgg a Florida gay bar by stg director, Carmen Cuba, for my first role Larry Clark’s ‘Bully. ”In 2004, when Mean Girls was released, characters like Damian — also known as the Gay Bt Friend trope — were few and far between. The stg director that put me Party Monster lled me for Damian; the script said that he was “probably fat and fely gay, ” which I thought was hysteril.