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Ten years after they first "met" the 2004 edy "Mean Girls," actor Daniel Franze has e out a letter he wrote to Damian, the openly gay character he played the the letter posted on the gay-culture webse /bent on Tuday, Franze explaed to the fictnal Damian what meant to play the character, what did to his reer and why took him so long to e out of the c

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Ten years after they first "met" the 2004 edy "Mean Girls, " actor Daniel Franze has e out a letter he wrote to Damian, the openly gay character he played the Daniel Franze at a screeng Los Angel October 2011.

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Rodriguez / TodayIn the letter posted on the gay-culture webse /bent on Tuday, Franze explaed to the fictnal Damian what meant to play the character, what did to his reer and why took him so long to e out of the closet.

I might've been easier to be gay growg up. "Franze said he was "terrified" to play the part, but lled Damian "a natural and te reprentatn of a gay teenager — a character we lghed wh stead of at. The cult classic is often quoted, wh Damian, for stance, beg nsired "too gay to functn.

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I was meetg a 'gay glass ceilg' stg. "He said that he turned down offers to play flamboyant, stereotypil gay men and told Damian, "you had ed my life and I was really pissed at you.

Tellg me I gave them fort not only beg young and gay but also beg a big du. In 2004’s Mean Girls, Franze played Damian, Cady (Ldsay Lohan) and Janis’s (Lizzy Caplan) gay bt iend who was rponsible for some of the film’s most beloved quot, om “You go, Glen Co! But while he portrayed an out and proud gay man, Franze didn’t e out publicly until 10 years after the movie me out.

He’s never ma fun of for beg big or for beg gay. “In 2014, I got this fan letter — said, ‘I don’t know if you’re gay or not; don’t matter.

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