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.
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’
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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.
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BO BURNHAM’S TEEN DRAMEDY ‘GAY KID AND FAT CHICK’ MOV AHEAD AT PARAMOUNT PLAYERS
“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.
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.
FROM AWKWARD FAT KID TO CONFINT GAY ACTIVIST
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