Janis Ian's character Mean Girls is the ultimate example of gay-bag and 's time we claimed her for good.
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PHOTOS: MISS GAY HUB CY
The sger-songwrer talks about releasg her swansong album, her stggl as a gay woman the dtry and her iend Na Simone * is janis ian gay *
Ian knew she was gay, but had not yet e out cisn to wed Ms. “I’d never even read about a gay woman the arts, a stable marriage/relatnship, wh a stable and succsful reer, ” she said. BLADE: As a gay man, I have always loved the story about Na’s rrponnce wh Langston Hugh.
JANIS IAN OM “MEAN GIRLS” SHOULD HAVE BEEN GAY
* is janis ian gay *
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Then 1993, she me out as gay, and returned as an pennt artist wh Breakg Silence, slowly rebuildg her reer. As someone born on the cp of the lennial/Gen Z divi, I’m que nostalgic for that then, there’s the gay reprentatn that might be silly to try and unpack the social polics of a rom- chick flick.
I n’t help but analyze how gay people are portrayed the as great as virtually every other aspect of Mean Girls is, that’s the one area that leav somethg to be, the other day, I read a great piece by another queer wrer named Till Kal, which he discs how ’s great to have a posive (i. E., non-tragic) reprentatn of a gay character. However, I agree wh his terpretatn that Damian was pretty much a walkg has a stereotypil gay male manner of speech, he passnately sgs Christa Aguilera songs, and he prefers beg iends wh girls rather than guys.