Daniel Franze: Playg Damian Mean Girls Helped Me Come Out as Gay

Contents:

• 'MEAN GIRLS' ACTOR OUT LETTER TO HIS INIC GAY CHARACTER
• DID YOU KNOW ALL THE 'MEAN GIRLS' GUYS ARE GAY NOW?
• ALL THE GUYS IN "MEAN GIRLS (2004)" EVENTUALLY CAME OUT AS GAY
• ‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR DANIEL FRANZE WAS ‘BRAWASHED’ INTO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• FOR MEAN GIRLS ON BROADWAY, "TOO GAY TO FUNCTN" IS A MANTRA
• DANIEL FRANZE REVEALS HOW PLAYG DAMIAN 'MEAN GIRLS' HELPED HIM COME OUT AS GAY
• FOR ‘MEAN GIRLS’ ACTOR DANIEL FRANZE, PLAYG AN INIC GAY BT FRIEND WAS A BLSG AND A CURSE
• I'M A GAY GUY, BUT THERE'S THIS GIRL....
• 'TOO GAY'? NO WAY MEAN GIRLS MIL PARODY
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

'MEAN GIRLS' ACTOR OUT LETTER TO HIS INIC GAY CHARACTER

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DID YOU KNOW ALL THE 'MEAN GIRLS' GUYS ARE GAY NOW?

Ten years after they first "met" the 2004 edy "Mean Girls, " actor Daniel Franze has e out a letter he wrote to Damian, the openly gay character he played the Daniel Franze at a screeng Los Angel October 2011. Rodriguez / TodayIn the letter posted on the gay-culture webse /bent on Tuday, Franze explaed to the fictnal Damian what meant to play the character, what did to his reer and why took him so long to e out of the closet.

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ALL THE GUYS IN "MEAN GIRLS (2004)" EVENTUALLY CAME OUT AS GAY

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‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR DANIEL FRANZE WAS ‘BRAWASHED’ INTO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

He has lent his image, voice and stand up edy gifts to many cludg The Trevor Project and hostg the 2016 Glaad Media Awards and 2017 Gay Men Chos Voice Awards.

Did You Know All the 'Mean Girls' Guys Are Gay Now?

FOR MEAN GIRLS ON BROADWAY, "TOO GAY TO FUNCTN" IS A MANTRA

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DANIEL FRANZE REVEALS HOW PLAYG DAMIAN 'MEAN GIRLS' HELPED HIM COME OUT AS GAY

He didn't e out as gay himself until 2017. He even reprised his role as Aaron Samuels for a quick meo Ariana Gran's "thank u, next" mic to round out the list, Rajiv Surendra, who played Kev G, me out as gay 2018 to KajalMag. "I know full well that if I was an openly gay actor, there was no way I’d be nsired for the role of a sixteen-year-old relig Indian kid a movie that Fox was puttg $100 ln to, " he said the terview.

"We're so grateful to all the st for makg Mean Girls even gayer than already was! “He’s almost too gay to functn.

”In 2004, when Mean Girls was released, characters like Damian — also known as the Gay Bt Friend trope — were few and far between.

FOR ‘MEAN GIRLS’ ACTOR DANIEL FRANZE, PLAYG AN INIC GAY BT FRIEND WAS A BLSG AND A CURSE

The stg director that put me Party Monster lled me for Damian; the script said that he was “probably fat and fely gay, ” which I thought was hysteril. Nobody was gog to stop do you thk Damian f to the leage of the “gay bt iend” trope film?

I thk Damian was the first gay role I saw where the character was jt fortable beg himself and there wasn’t too much foc on his beg gay.

I'M A GAY GUY, BUT THERE'S THIS GIRL....

You knew he was gay.

'TOO GAY'? NO WAY MEAN GIRLS MIL PARODY

But they told her that my character was gay and that’s why she let me sg the movie.

But then, bee my character was gay, Lda Perry allowed me to sg “Betiful.

But I don’t thk would have affected the role at all if I was out or not bee I thk Ta probably thought I was gay when she first hired me anyway. As soon as the movie was over, I kept meetg the gay glass ceilg. I prayed about a b and if I was gog to do a gay role, was gog to be this one.

UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

But then, immediately after, I was offered all the other gay parts that were all so stereotypil — jt makg fun of gays. But I felt that there was a progrsn gaysploatn cema.

It jt felt so serendipo — felt like somethg I was supposed to be dog, to be on a set where ’s not only okay to be gay but was ol to be gay. Larry Gaynor...