Gay wrer Benj Pasek discs how the novelizatn of the mil expands on LGBTQ them and a muny of support.
Contents:
- DID YOU THK EVAN HANSEN WAS GAY? YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
- WHY DID PEOPLE THK DEAR EVAN HANSEN WAS A GAY MIL?
DID YOU THK EVAN HANSEN WAS GAY? YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
* was connor gay in dear evan hansen *
He was the first openly gay person Connor knew. It’s PG-13, but not Over the TopDear Evan Hansen is rated PG-13 for thematic elements (cludg discsn of suici), brief strong language (cludg an f-bomb – tails below), and some suggtive ’s iend Jared, who is gay, mak several suggtive ments, and at one pot, mentns how he “hooked up” wh a Brazilian male mol.
(Evan is not gay, and although Connor wears black nail polish, the film don’t explicly say he’s gay.
) Search the terms “Evan Hansen gay. You’ll fd no shortage of people the procs of disverg, as the Broadway mil–turned–major motn picture heads for theaters everywhere on Friday, that Dear Evan Hansen is not a queer story—that the tular Evan Hansen is not some sad, gay kid gettg bullied and ridg out high school the bathroom at lunch. Yet this pervasive notn, that Evan is gay, lgers on, years sce the Broadway blockbter’s but.
WHY DID PEOPLE THK DEAR EVAN HANSEN WAS A GAY MIL?
The entire plot hg on the dience buyg to the ia that he is anx and weird but not gay.
Baked to the song are both homophobic unrton and the lgerg notn that perhaps Connor and Evan doth prott too much. There are supposed jok about how life whout Connor was “rough” or “hard, ” and the even more blatantly homoerotic le, “Our iendship go beyond/ Your average kd of bond/ But not bee we’re gay/ No, not bee we’re gay/ We’re close but not that way/ The only man that I love is my dad. ” It’s also worth notg the role of Evan Hansen has been played by a strg of out gay actors.
) Which is not at all to suggt gay actors n’t play straight, but this public knowledge and stg pattern certaly do ltle to shape the narrative away om the ia that “this is a gay story. But ’s unfair to say that to watch Dear Evan Hansen and fd gay subtext is like readg tea leav for a hidn sign. Makg Connor nonilly queer only nfirms what so many fans and crics of the show knew herently, and what a zilln other people on Twter felt about the show whout really ever engagg wh the material beyond the surface: Dear Evan Hansen is, ep down, as gay a story as they e.