Director of queer classic 'But I'm a Cheerlear' wanted to 'make a gay "Cluels"'

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Kyle Tanguay is gay, out and proud, and he’s the first male cheerlear for the Eagl 40 years.

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RAMS WILL HAVE 5 GAY CHEERLEARS THE SUPER BOWL

The Los Angel Rams ma history three years ago wh two out gay male cheerlears on their sile for Super Bowl LIII. Not many people n also say they’re on an NFL cheerleadg team wh two out gay ptas. Quton penned his g-out story for Outsports 2019, and highlighted how momento is to cheer for an NFL team as an out gay man.

Ben Ajani, an out gay cheerlear for the Atlanta Falns, got engaged at the last game of the season. “I feel like we’re brgg this army of out gay proud men wh , ” he said. Booker and Crawford are out gay, Black male cheerlears a sport domated by heteronormativy and all of s cultural trappgs.

It’s like, ‘Yeah, maybe I should be as gay as I possibly n, bee that’s what the stereotype believ me to be, ’” he said.

THE 2 OUT GAY CHEERLEARS ARE MAKG HISTORY WH THE PANTHERS

For two out gay men, that’s no small feat. And there will be plenty of LGBTQ+ reprentatn on the sil as well when the New England Patrts play the Buffalo Bills on Saturday will be a historic game for the Patrts as the team will start a rookie quarterback a playoff game for the first time team history, but Mac Jon will not be the only person makg history what has already been a season of firsts for the NFL clared self officially gay this year shortly after Las Vegas Rairs fensive end Carl Nassib me out via an Instagram post durg Pri Month. Nassib ma history as the league's first out, gay active player and he is expected to bee the first out player to take the field an NFL playoff game when his Las Vegas Rairs play the Ccnati Bengals on Saturday.

DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'

In fact, the Pats have three out gay cheerlears on their squad!

“One thg the Eagl fans are dog a good job of is they’re not makg about me beg a man or beg gay, ” Tanguay told Outsports. ” The movie centers on a lbian high school cheerlear (played by Natasha Lyonne), whose parents send her to a nversn therapy mp to cure her homosexualy.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF MALE CHEERLEARS ARE GAY?

And I thk the muny was so vastated by AIDS that there wasn’t a lot of edi gog on gay cema. I wanted to skewer not only my muny, but also jt the absurdy of gay nversn. It’s ridiculo to say that jt bee you bee more feme means you’re gog to be ls gay.

GAY GYMNAST FDS NEW SPORTS PASSN AS A LLEGE CHEERLEAR AT UCONN

I loved “Cluels, ” and I wanted to make a gay “Cluels.

For sure — and sexism and homophobia. I read that your first choice for the lead role turned down for relig reasons, and other st members were utned by their agents agast playg gay characters. Are gay actors still beg dissuad om playg gay characters?

I thk ’s better, but there’s a lot of homophobia the actg realm and that agents would still advise some of their clients not to take gay rol, pecially if their clients is gay and the closet.

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Director of queer classic 'But I'm a Cheerlear' wanted to 'make a gay "Cluels"' .

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