In an terview published the May 2011 issue of The Atlantic, actor Pl Marrelli discs his role playg Tt Man, popularly known as “the Verizon Guy.” Marrelli tells The Atlantic that he cid not to file a police report on kids an SUV who would drive past his hoe at night yellg homophobic tnts and askg, “Can you hear me now?” Though Marrelli do not say that Verizon ever asked or enuraged him to keep his homosexualy unr wraps, he says that he did not file a report bee he was “worried about the publicy—and the qutns that might ensue if me out that the actor playg Tt Man was gay.” If the actor playg the Verizon Guy is gay, do that mean the Verizon Guy is gay? Is “Can you hear me now?” a secret gay..
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- PL MARRELLI, BETTER KNOW AS THE “VERIZON GUY,” KEPT HIS SILENCE THAT HE WAS GAY OM VERIZON FEAR THAT HE WOULD LOSE HIS ROLE. HE LATER ME OUT AFTER HIS NTRACT WH VERIZON END.
- QUTNS THAT MIGHT ENSUE UPON LEARNG THE VERIZON GUY IS GAY
- “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?…GOOD: I’M GAY!”
PL MARRELLI, BETTER KNOW AS THE “VERIZON GUY,” KEPT HIS SILENCE THAT HE WAS GAY OM VERIZON FEAR THAT HE WOULD LOSE HIS ROLE. HE LATER ME OUT AFTER HIS NTRACT WH VERIZON END.
* verizon guy gay *
" Marrelli also reunted several cints which neighborhood youths drove by his hoe and yelled homophobic tnts.
” every uple of sends as he spects the globe for cell verage, actor and wrer Pl Marrelli is now wearg a different hat—or different pair of eyeglass, we should say—as screenwrer and producer for the chillg new drama The Green, about a gay high school teacher Connecticut who is acced of appropriate relatns wh one of his stunts. I remember the Post headle said “Marrelli’s Bizarre Life, ” which to me is for gay, primarily. VOLLMER: I read that same terview that you had waed to e out as gay publicly until the end of your ntract wh Verizon.
Whenever you create somethg that has a gay theme, ’s herently polil. The msage I took away was that jt bee gay marriage is legal, don’t mean homophobia has gone away, and homophobia n exist unr the surface even a seemgly liberal environment. MARCARELLI: Accatns agast gay schoolteachers figure really promently liberal news headl, bee they’re attentn-grabbg and ratgs-gettg.
QUTNS THAT MIGHT ENSUE UPON LEARNG THE VERIZON GUY IS GAY
For me, there is a very unique experienc that I have disvered I share wh a lot of people who have seen the film at gay film ftivals this year, when you are the only gay guy on the block, you feel this rponsibily to be this ambassador. Not that homophobia don’t exist; of urse do.
And I found travelg wh the film this summer too that there hasn’t been a sgle screeng, anywhere the untry, where a teacher hasn’t e up durg the Q&A or after and said, “I’m a gay teacher, and this is my worst nightmare.
“CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?…GOOD: I’M GAY!”
"Marrelli is gay, a fact which he didn't feel he uld reveal while signed to his long-term Verizon al. Sensg the risk that his sexual orientatn uld rail his high-value job, he even cled to file a police report relatg to homophobic harassment.
” at Marrelli, who is gay.
One night the harassment got so bad that he lled the ps, but he cled to file a police report for fear that might get out that he was gay, endangerg his relatnship wh Verizon. I have wrten a few screenplays, two of which were ma to award-wng films cludg the 2011 film The Green about a gay teacher acced of misnduct, and Clutter starrg Carol Kane as a pulsive hoarr stgglg wh the strs her disorr is g her grown children, one of whom is played by Orange Is The New Black’s Natasha Lyonne.