Actor Daniel Franze ("Mean Girls" / "Lookg"): An Oh Universy Jt Fired Me For Beg Gay – The Buckeye Flame

Contents:

• ‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR DANIEL FRANZE WAS ‘BRAWASHED’ INTO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• DANIEL FRANZE REVEALS HOW PLAYG DAMIAN 'MEAN GIRLS' HELPED HIM COME OUT AS GAY
•  DANIEL ANZE MEAN GIRLS BLAM LGBTQ MENTS THOLIC SCHOOL FIR FOR BEG GAY
• WALSH UNIVERSY NI CLAIM THAT DANIEL FRANZE WAS FIRED OM JOB BEE HE IS GAY
• DANIEL FRANZE COM OUT AS GAY TOUCHG LETTER TO HIS MEAN GIRLS CHARACTER DAMIAN
• FOR ‘MEAN GIRLS’ ACTOR DANIEL FRANZE, PLAYG AN INIC GAY BT FRIEND WAS A BLSG AND A CURSE
• MEAN GIRLS' DANIEL FRANZE OFFICIALLY COM OUT AS GAY OPEN LETTER TO HIS CHARACTER DAMIAN
• ACTOR DANIEL FRANZE (“MEAN GIRLS” / “LOOKG”): AN OH UNIVERSY JT FIRED ME FOR BEG GAY
• MEAN GIRLS STAR DANIEL FRANZE WANTS TO SEE MORE SEXY BIGGER GAY MEN ON TV
• DANIEL FRANZE OF ‘GAY SK HAPPENS’ TALKS ABOUT FDG COMEDY IN LIFE’S MOST DRAMATIC SUATNS

‘MEAN GIRLS’ STAR DANIEL FRANZE WAS ‘BRAWASHED’ INTO GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

The actor, who is currently workg on the play “Italian Moms Love You!, ” explaed that he forced himself to unrgo the psdoscientific practice of nversn therapy bee he “didn’t want to be gay” and “didn’t know what to do” as part of his Catholic and Pentestal Christian fah. Franze add that the “world around” him ma him “feel like beg gay was not OK.

DANIEL FRANZE REVEALS HOW PLAYG DAMIAN 'MEAN GIRLS' HELPED HIM COME OUT AS GAY

Franze worked wh a nversn therapist who “ed to be gay” himself for six months and was remend by Franze’s grandmother’s pastor. “I went to one-on-one therapy ssns wh a person who was tryg to change me straight and make me pray the gay away and alienate all my alli, ” Franze said, cludg his mother. “And he was like, ‘You n be [gay] and the send g of Christ uld happen, and you’re not gog to go to hell if you love God.

” scribed as “a fah and sexualy affirmg edy podst that believ you don’t have to pick between gay and God. 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.

 DANIEL ANZE MEAN GIRLS BLAM LGBTQ MENTS THOLIC SCHOOL FIR FOR BEG GAY

“In 2014, I got this fan letter — said, ‘I don’t know if you’re gay or not; don’t matter.

After g out, Franze took on another plex gay role, playg an HIV-posive man HBO’s Lookg.

WALSH UNIVERSY NI CLAIM THAT DANIEL FRANZE WAS FIRED OM JOB BEE HE IS GAY

I attempted to do early on my reer, but I felt thentic — I always tryg to change my voice so I wouldn’t sound gay or not say a gay thg.

The actor, 44, tells Page Six exclively that he forced himself to the psdoscientific practice, which aimed to “nvert” him om beg homosexual to heterosexual, bee he “didn’t want to be gay” and “didn’t know what to do. Though he felt “lovgly tolerated” by his Catholic and Pentestal Christian fay, was “the world around” him that Franze says ma him “feel like beg gay was not OK.

“I went to one-on-one therapy ssns wh a person who was tryg to change me straight and make me pray the gay away and alienate all my alli, ” he tells . The “Mean Girls” star felt “like beg gay was not OK” and sought “treatment” at 21.

DANIEL FRANZE COM OUT AS GAY TOUCHG LETTER TO HIS MEAN GIRLS CHARACTER DAMIAN

After the therapist — whom Franze believ was “SO gay, like ” — mentned that he “ed to be gay” but was now married to a woman, the “Lookg” star said goodbye to nversn therapy for good. Franze qu nversn therapy after his therapist said, “I ed to be gay.

FOR ‘MEAN GIRLS’ ACTOR DANIEL FRANZE, PLAYG AN INIC GAY BT FRIEND WAS A BLSG AND A CURSE

Paraphrasg, Franze tells the letter read, “I don’t know if you’re gay or not, and don’t matter, but when I was eighth gra, I was beat up for beg chubby, and I was tortured every day for beg a sissy. ” — “a fah and sexualy affirmg edy podst that believ you don’t have to pick between gay and God. "Today I was fired om Walsh Universy Oh for beg gay, " he says.

MEAN GIRLS' DANIEL FRANZE OFFICIALLY COM OUT AS GAY OPEN LETTER TO HIS CHARACTER DAMIAN

While universy officials nfirmed they were talks wh Franze to host the pageant, they nied firg him bee he is gay. "Franze said that after the panmic he plans to put on a benef show for the Trevor Project, which assists LGBTQ+ youth crisis, at the gay bar neart to Walsh's mp. Related: Daniel Franze says he was fired this week for beg gay, shar receipts.

Even wh gay-acceptg parents, a pair of gay uncl, and lbian relativ, Franze’s felt his fah and the homophobic society of his adolcence required him to unrgo nversn to heterosexualy at age 21. “I went to one-on-one therapy ssns wh a person who was tryg to change me straight and make me pray the gay away and alienate all my alli, ” he explas. Even after leavg nversn therapy and playg the inilly gay character Damian Mean Girls 2004, Franze didn’t bee fortable g out to public until receivg a heartfelt msage om a gay fan a later.

ACTOR DANIEL FRANZE (“MEAN GIRLS” / “LOOKG”): AN OH UNIVERSY JT FIRED ME FOR BEG GAY

Daniel Franze, who played openly gay Damian “Mean Girls” — which me out 10 years ago this month — asked to share this touchg g out letter he wrote to his character the film.

I might’ve been easier to be gay growg up. But this was a natural and te reprentatn of a gay teenager – a character we lghed wh stead of at. I was meetg a “gay glass ceilg” stg.

MEAN GIRLS STAR DANIEL FRANZE WANTS TO SEE MORE SEXY BIGGER GAY MEN ON TV

However, I did turn down many offers to play flamboyant, feather-boa-slgg stereotyp that always seemed to be lghed at BECAUSE they were gay. How uld I go om playg an spiratnal, progrsive gay youth to the embarrassg, cliched butt-of-a-joke?

I didn’t go to any gay bars, have any flgs and I lied to anyone who asked if I was gay. Tellg me I gave them fort not only beg young and gay but also beg a big du.

DANIEL FRANZE OF ‘GAY SK HAPPENS’ TALKS ABOUT FDG COMEDY IN LIFE’S MOST DRAMATIC SUATNS

Deletg tweets that asked if I was gay, scbbg IMDB Msage Boards for any ditn, etc. (It’s important to note that I was actually DISCOVERED sgg a Florida gay bar by stg director, Carmen Cuba, for my first role Larry Clark’s ‘Bully.