Daniel Franze Com Out as Gay Letter to Mean Girls' Damian

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Daniel Franze, who has starred cult film Mean Girls and h HBO TV show Lookg, says 'gay bigger people are visible' on TV and film.

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

'Mean Girls' star Daniel Franze has acced Walsh Universy of homophobia after he was fired om an already planned gig for beg a gay * daniel franzese gay *

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.

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.

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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.

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

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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. 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. 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.

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” — “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. 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.

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

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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.

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

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. 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. Deletg tweets that asked if I was gay, scbbg IMDB Msage Boards for any ditn, etc.

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

(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. People have always asked if I was really gay?

By the way… June I am the Celebry Grand Marshall of the Portland Gay Pri Para. I hate when people say I’m “too gay to functn. 'Mean Girls' star blam Vatin's LGBTQ ments after Catholic school fir him for beg 'gay'.

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

In a shockg turn of events, ‘Mean Girls’ star Daniel Franze has acced the Oh-based Walsh Universy of “homophobia” after beg fired om an upg gig for beg gay. Franze has wrten, directed, and performed several live edy productns durg his 2014, he me out as gay and beme more active the fight for civil and human rights the LGBTQ muny.

Please give Danny my scert apologi, ” he said a YouTube vio tled: “I was fired today for beg gay. You n still be fired for beg gay 2021.

Another er said, “You n still be fired for beg gay 2021?

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

Ten years after htg the big screen as Damian Mean Girls, actor Daniel Franze me out as gay a letter to his character, published on Indiewire's Bent. 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. I didn't go to any gay bars, have any flgs and I lied to anyone who asked if I was gay.

(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. June I am the Celebry Grand Marshall of the Portland Gay Pri Para.

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

I hate when people say I'm "too gay to functn. Actor and edian Daniel Franze has taken to YouTube to level accatns of homophobia at the Oh-based Walsh Universy.

Acrdg to Franze, who me to promence through appearanc Mean Girls, the Universy let him go om an upg gig for beg gay followg recent statements om the Vatin on same-sex marriage.

"I e to you still reelg om the horrific terrorist attack that killed eight Asian women Geia which has spired me to share this experience bee I tly believe that is the microaggrsns and jtic agast mori that e hate crim like Pulse Orlando and the horrific events of the other day, " he said at the begng of a YouTube vio tled "I was fired today for beg gay. "The actor went further, sayg that when the panmic rtrictns lift he would return to Oh and host a edy benef for the Trevor Project at the gay club neart to Welsh.

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