From Awkward Fat Kid to Confint Gay Activist – The Forward

Contents:

• CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
• BO BURNHAM’S TEEN DRAMEDY ‘GAY KID AND FAT CHICK’ MOV AHEAD AT PARAMOUNT PLAYERS
• FROM AWKWARD FAT KID TO CONFINT GAY ACTIVIST

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

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.

BO BURNHAM’S TEEN DRAMEDY ‘GAY KID AND FAT CHICK’ MOV AHEAD AT PARAMOUNT PLAYERS

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. Paramount Players is movg ahead wh Bo Burnham’s teen edy-drama “Gay Kid and Fat Chick, ” hirg TV director Amy York Rub to helm.

I’m Glad I’m Gay! That’s Barry Lossky, the book’s thor, a retired Maryland school psychologist and one of many unsung pneers a generatn of gay men who me out when still felt dangero. Barry Lossky: I never my wilst dreams ever thought that gay and lbian dividuals would be allowed to marry my lifetime.

FROM AWKWARD FAT KID TO CONFINT GAY ACTIVIST

What would you say characteriz gay Jews?

You seem to draw some distctn the book between and other gay people. You seem to have ls trouble tegratg your gay and Jewish inti than many who feel exclud om both.

Growg up, I knew no other gay Jews, except for fay, of urse.