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• KAL PENN, ‘HAROLD AND KUMAR’ AND ‘HOE’ STAR, OUT AS GAY
• KAL PENN OUT AS GAY, SHAR HOW HIS 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP STARTED WH NASCAR
• AFTER KAL PENN’S COMG OUT, HAROLD AND KUMAR FEELS EVEN GAYER
• HAROLD & KUMAR STAR KAL PENN OUT AS GAY AND REVEALS HE'S ENGAGED

KAL PENN, ‘HAROLD AND KUMAR’ AND ‘HOE’ STAR, OUT AS GAY

The actor and former Print Obama adviser Kal Penn has e out as gay, and revealed that he’s engaged to be married. Kal Penn, most known for his role as Kumar Patel alongsi John Cho’s Harold Lee the h “Harold and Kumar” film anchise, has e out as gay and announced his recent engagement.

Sure, the eponymo protagonists sniff out weed and women, but they also chase their dreams — and a eply homosocial bond wh each ’s already so much that was gay about this movie upon s 2004 release. And light of Kal Penn’s recent revelatn that he is gay, engaged, and (hopefully) plans to ve me to his “big ass Indian” weddg, Harold and Kumar has assumed a ep, meta-textual queer ronance. But the movie also smartly nonts stereotyp lodged at Asian Amerins, tailg social dynamics many of actually enunter, like parents who stnchly steer toward medil school (rais hand) or assumptns about our work bee Asian Amerin men are often femized by domant culture, a bunch of meatheads keep jokg that Harold and Kumar are gay for each other.

KAL PENN OUT AS GAY, SHAR HOW HIS 11-YEAR RELATNSHIP STARTED WH NASCAR

The duo also engag no-homo humor themselv, and the vibe is ribbg rather than tolerant. The joke isn’t that Harold and Kumar might be gay, but that only a mouth-breather would make that ’s a sly distctn that sets the movie apart om others of the era that leaned to gay panic for cheap lghs.

And the movie’s queer bona fis are ever more obv retrospect, regardls of Penn’s newly rved place the gay Hollywood Mount Rhmore of my md. Lookg back, there’s a playful juxtaposn between the heightened, absurdly womanizg Harris of Harold and Kumar and the Harris who me out as gay two years after the movie was released.

AFTER KAL PENN’S COMG OUT, HAROLD AND KUMAR FEELS EVEN GAYER

While we no way ndone tokg wh an animal, or saddlg one that is not meant for such purpos, this sequence is gay as hell the bt ways. Startg wh my also licks Harold awake om an unnsc dream about his love tert, sayg he figur Harold would wake up if he “did some gay sh. ” It’s another meta stance of no-homo humor that pok fun at the ia of gay panic rather than mg directly for ’s nothg that isn’t gay about a Wilson Phillips sg-along.

HAROLD & KUMAR STAR KAL PENN OUT AS GAY AND REVEALS HE'S ENGAGED

” Thanks to this edible, and the gay (as happy) meal that is Harold and Kumar, my answer today is y, I the bt of what’s queer.

Actor Kal Penn has e out as gay his new memoir.