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• CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
• 'SCHOOL OF ROCK' ACTOR BRIAN FALDUTO WAS HOMOPHOBIC TOWARD HIMSELF AFTER PLAYG 'THE GAY KID'
• ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’S’ BILLY WR ABOUT BEG LABELED “THE GAY KID”
• AFTER PLAYG THE GAY KID SCHOOL OF ROCK, AN ACTOR ADJTS TO LIFE OFF CAMERA
• WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE GAY KID SCHOOL OF ROCK
• KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS
• KID ROCK REPEATS GAY SLUR RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIA BACKLASH

CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’

Former child actor Brian Falduto says that he wasn’t able to e out until his senr year of llege bee of the stggl he faced after beg dubbed “the gay kid” om “School of Rock.

'SCHOOL OF ROCK' ACTOR BRIAN FALDUTO WAS HOMOPHOBIC TOWARD HIMSELF AFTER PLAYG 'THE GAY KID'

“I was so much nial [about my sexualy growg up], ” he said on the “Cooper and Anthony Show, ” “Thk about : I was the fifth gra when this movie me out and I was lled gay, and then someone told me that’s not ol, so I was jt like, ‘Oh, ok, then I’m not gay’.

“So I was nyg before I even had a notn of what [beg gay] was, ” he told rad hosts Cooper Lawrence and Anthony Michaels. Beg known as “the gay kid” om “School of Rock” stopped Brian Falduto om g out for years. “So by the time I realized I was potentially gay, I was already homophobic towards myself, sentially, ” Falduto, who is now an actor, filmmaker, mician and life ach said.

‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’S’ BILLY WR ABOUT BEG LABELED “THE GAY KID”

"I was nyg before I even had a notn of what [beg gay] was, " School of Rock actor Brian Falduto said of playg "the gay kid" the 2003 movie. The former child actor, 29, recently opened up about how playg "the gay kid" the 2003 movie ma difficult for him to e to terms wh his own sexualy. "Thk about : I was the fifth gra when this movie me out and I was lled gay, and then someone told me that's not ol, " Falduto ntued.

"So I was jt like, 'Oh okay, then I'm not gay.

AFTER PLAYG THE GAY KID SCHOOL OF ROCK, AN ACTOR ADJTS TO LIFE OFF CAMERA

"I was nyg before I even had a notn of what [beg gay] was, " Falduto reunted. "So by the time I realized I was potentially gay, I was already homophobic towards myself, sentially. In a 2018 say, Falduto wrote that playg Billy led him to be lled the "gay kid om 'School of Rock'.

Years later, durg his senr year of llege, he me out as gay. "This movie me out and I got lled 'gay' and then someone told me that's not ol so I jt was like 'Oh OK I'm not gay. No, but uld be former child actor said he was receivg negative msag surroundg gayns so often that his nial grew before he even unrstood what meant to be homosexual or queer.

"By the time I realized I was potentially gay, I was already homophobic toward myself, " he said. "In llege I met a bunch of gay people and I was like 'this is awome and they're great but this isn't an optn for me. Brian Falduto, an actor and mician bt known for playg Billy (or “Fancy Pants”) the Jack Black mil film School of Rock, opens up about his experience growg up as “the gay kid” om the film an emotnal say for The Advote.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE GAY KID SCHOOL OF ROCK

Sayg that he’s now “OK wh , ” he explas that, bee of his role the film, which me out 15 years ago October, he was labeled as “gay” early on.

KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS

He explas that, at the time, “there also weren’t seasons of The Voice like the current one where sexually diverse and genr-fluid talents are reprented or openly gay Olympic figure skaters like Adam Rippon. ” And, he says, “The add element of beg a young gay figurehead when I didn’t have any personal role mols to pend on, well, plited thgs, to say the least. The film is makg history as the first mastream stud movie to feature a gay teen romance.

KID ROCK REPEATS GAY SLUR RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIA BACKLASH

Nearly 15 years later, I am still the "gay kid om School of Rock, " but for the first time ever, I'm OK wh . Believe or not, a private Catholic school suburban New Jersey, was not ol to be labeled gay. Not only was unol, beg lled gay was meant to be sultg.

Bee of my role the film (as well as the way I rried myself, lbi-hont), I was labeled gay. There also weren't seasons of The Voice like the current one where sexually diverse and genr-fluid talents are reprented or openly gay Olympic figure skaters like Adam Rippon. I had shut down the ia that I uld be gay so early on my life that I eventually believed I wasn't.