Why Did People Thk 'Dear Evan Hansen' Was a Gay Mil? 

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Actor Chris Evans has spoken support of LGBTQ rights. But uld the 'Capta Ameri' star be more than jt an ally? Is Chris Evans gay?

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DID YOU THK EVAN HANSEN WAS GAY? YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

'Dear Evan Hansen' is a mil about a young boy lyg about his iendship wh a ceased classmate. Yet many thought was about a bullied gay teenager. * why is evan gay *

) Search the terms “Evan Hansen gay.

You’ll fd no shortage of people the procs of disverg, as the Broadway mil–turned–major motn picture heads for theaters everywhere on Friday, that Dear Evan Hansen is not a queer story—that the tular Evan Hansen is not some sad, gay kid gettg bullied and ridg out high school the bathroom at lunch.

WHY DID PEOPLE THK DEAR EVAN HANSEN WAS A GAY MIL?

Yet this pervasive notn, that Evan is gay, lgers on, years sce the Broadway blockbter’s but. The entire plot hg on the dience buyg to the ia that he is anx and weird but not gay.

Baked to the song are both homophobic unrton and the lgerg notn that perhaps Connor and Evan doth prott too much. There are supposed jok about how life whout Connor was “rough” or “hard, ” and the even more blatantly homoerotic le, “Our iendship go beyond/ Your average kd of bond/ But not bee we’re gay/ No, not bee we’re gay/ We’re close but not that way/ The only man that I love is my dad.

” It’s also worth notg the role of Evan Hansen has been played by a strg of out gay actors. ) Which is not at all to suggt gay actors n’t play straight, but this public knowledge and stg pattern certaly do ltle to shape the narrative away om the ia that “this is a gay story.

IS CHRIS EVANS GAY, BI, STRAIGHT, OR QUEER?

But ’s unfair to say that to watch Dear Evan Hansen and fd gay subtext is like readg tea leav for a hidn sign.

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