So Te? So False? Did Zach Braff Jt Come Out as a Gay Man on His Webse?

Contents:

• ZACHARY QUTO NFIRMS HE IS GAY MAGAZE TERVIEW
• ANTIGAY FATHER OUTS ‘ZACH’
• ZAC IS GAY
• SO TE? SO FALSE? DID ZACH BRAFF JT COME OUT AS A GAY MAN ON HIS WEBSE?

ZACHARY QUTO NFIRMS HE IS GAY MAGAZE TERVIEW

"Instead of rortg to the same homophobic tras we're so ed to seeg the kd of suatns, Zach prov himself to be a te iend while also settg a strong example of male kdns and scene prov that 13 Reasons Why do get right on ocsn, jt like season three when Clay asked Tyler for permissn before huggg him.

There, Monty's malic behavur was sudnly blamed on his newly-disvered homosexualy, which he rented and then punished others only was he then killed off at the end of the season yet another unfortunate example of 'Bury Your Gays', but the boy Monty beat up and kissed then starts plottg revenge on the kids who got him locked up the first place.

And now the show has e to an end, 's probably bt to jt bury this story for good, stead of yet another gay character. The « why are there so many gay characters season 4? « Why are there so many gay characters season 4?

ANTIGAY FATHER OUTS ‘ZACH’

Many of the posts I've seen have often word this mdset wh disapprovg language, wh most of them beg disposed towards the glib « no offense, I'm not homophobic or anythg, but — » approach, which really never lsens the impact or implitns ma each time « why are they all gay?

ZAC IS GAY

LGBTQ+ reprentatn should be prent, should be clear, and should be normalized, and that's exactly what the show om stanc such as the man that Tony and Ryan enuntered on the street, Monty and Courtney's ternalized homophobia, Monty's abive father, and the homophobic jok ma by the sports teams (which are all very mon our morn world), LGBTQ+ upl and them are generally accepted and supported by the rt of the ma st, wh most of never once beg qutned or validated any kd of disdaful manner.

WHY, MORE SPECIFICALLY, IS EVERYONE GAY?

I've seen multiple posts targetg the gay muny particular over the reprentatn season 4, which is not only homophobic and biphobic, but also simply rrect! While a cent amount of characters the show are gay, most of the LGBTQ+ characters rema, Courtney, Ryan, Caleb, and Wston, for example, have been pretty much all nfirmed to be gay, while both Alex and Montgomery fall to a b of a grey has had experience datg both guys and girls. This is what leads many people to believe that 's okay to assume that Monty's gay, but there is also the fact that Tim Granaros, Monty's actor, as well as the wrers, have ma a pot to keep om labellg him, stead preferrg to scribe him as « explorg his sexualy » and « figurg himself out ».

SO TE? SO FALSE? DID ZACH BRAFF JT COME OUT AS A GAY MAN ON HIS WEBSE?

A lot of people like to argue that Monty's nontatn wh his father prison was enough to jtify the assumptn of his homosexualy, but nsirg the nature of that teractn, this shouldn't be the se. As for Wston labellg Monty as gay durg his nversatn wh Diego at the fd your drk party, 's important to remember that Wston barely knew Monty, and heard firsthand om him that he wasn't « fuckg gay », there is also the aforementned biphobic implitns of the origal qutn.

I've seen that the people who typilly ask about the reprentatn the show group Alex, and most notably, Charlie, wh the other « gay characters », and the issu wh this are obv. It perpetuat the ncept of bi-erasure, which is a problem that many bisexual boys and men currently have to experience — that beg bisexual somehow, for absolutely no reason, translat other people's mds to beg gay. Beg bisexual is not and never will be the same as beg gay.