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WHY DID PEOPLE THK DEAR EVAN HANSEN WAS A GAY MIL?
The breakout actor discs the impact of brgg gay reprentatn to a beloved mil's film adaptatn. * evan hansen 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.
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.
'Dear Evan Hansen' is a mil about a young boy lyg about his iendship wh a ceased classmate. Yet many thought was about a bullied gay teenager. * evan hansen gay *
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.