FYI: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Is Actually Not About a Gay Teen

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Gay wrer Benj Pasek discs how the novelizatn of the mil expands on LGBTQ them and a muny of support.

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WHY DID PEOPLE THK DEAR EVAN HANSEN WAS A GAY MIL?

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) 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.

'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 *

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.

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FYI: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Is Actually Not About a Gay Teen .

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