Child star stggled to e out after playg 'the gay kid' 'School of Rock'

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• CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
• VIO OF YOUNG BOY DANCG SEXUALLY STREETS AS ‘GAY’ PRI ATTEN CHEER RAISG CONCERNS
• GAY KIDS
• TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

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

KRON4's Gayle Ong reports. 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. “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.

A vio recently posted to YouTube that shows a young boy dancg a sexual manner durg a “gay” pri event while onlookers cheered him on is raisg ncerns om viewers natnwi. Gay Star News, reportg about the ncerns that followed the postg of the vio, said that the boy was simply “havg a great time” and lled those who opposed the scenar “homophob. “I bet homophob rather see a young boy rryg a gun.

VIO OF YOUNG BOY DANCG SEXUALLY STREETS AS ‘GAY’ PRI ATTEN CHEER RAISG CONCERNS

Homophob should md their own sex-life! But others, cludg some of Gay Star News’ rears, took issue wh the footage.

“I’m not a homophobe, but I fd vios of prepubcent children dancg provotively pletely disgtg. I also fd Gay Star news method of fense equally disgtg, ” one wrote. While not all ‘gays’ are child abers, perasty has been a central aspect of the homosexual liftyle sce the days of the Greek bathhoe.

“This is further proof that the homosexual movement is not about equaly, but about the normalizatn of sexual perversn, ” Barbwire gut blogger Cain Cowger also wrote. We already knew She-Ra was queer AF, but seeg two lovg, openly gay parents on a popular animated show ma our hearts swell!

GAY KIDS

"As a gay man who grew up wh no visible role mols of gay relatnships my muny or entertament ntent, I am grateful that this reprentatn is happeng on Nickeloon, moved by the difference that is surely makg the mds and hearts of children, and grateful to have been a part of this slow but important change, " Dickie told PRIDE.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

LUCIE - Comg out as gay is hard, but g out as gay to your Mormon dad is really Swk was preparg to go on his first missn trip wh the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats when he cid to reveal the news that he was gay to his dad, Vghn Swk. He cid to vio rerd his g out to his dad, and posted the reactn the vio above to see how Swk’s dad reacted to him g out as gay. As a 30-year-old gay man, I’ve met a lot of other queer people who also hid parts of themselv childhood.

Experimentg wh femy the safety of the home — even somethg as mcule as selectg girl characters vio gam and livg virly through her abily to kick ass — seems to be a shared gay experience for many of . None of this mak a person gay, of urse.

It feels remiscent of the adoratn that gay fans hold toward old Hollywood beti like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, or the pageant-style exaggeratns of femy that unrpned so much of early drag culture. Barbie has been the subject of the same gay diva worship over the years, and Gerwig’s film promently featurg LGBTQ+ actors feels like a nod to that history. Part of Barbie’s gay appeal might be that, spe beg plastic and unmalleable, she n transform herself to anythg: doctor, lawyer, judge, journalist, and vet, or whatever Mattel thks will sell the most dolls.