Had I Known, I Would Never Have Accepted the Role of a Token Gay Friend

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• TOKEN GAY
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• HAD I KNOWN, I WOULD NEVER HAVE ACCEPTED THE ROLE OF A TOKEN GAY FRIEND
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It’s an timate moment that plays out between Amy (Kalyn Dever) and Maggie (Diana Silvers) Olivia Wil’s Booksmart, and rgs quietly matter-of-fact portrayal of a homosexual relatnship and the ia that a character’s sexualy is a mere attribute of their entire existence, not their sole purpose, are markers of the emergence of a much more nuanced gay high school experience film. It has taken time, but the ncept of a gay high schooler the media has transformed om totally tokenized to Dark AgDurg the 1980’s and 90’s, the AIDs crisis the Uned Stat was showg society a different si of the LGBTQ muny, and teen films were a genre where the muny uld fd on-screen reprentatn, even if was mor.

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Booksmart (2019) – source: Uned Artists ReleasgIn 1988’s Heathers, gay teen romance was more so the butt of a joke than a plot pot the cult classic. Plants evince cludg a gay pornographic magaze and a suici pact, patg Ram and Kurt as lovers. “I love my ad gay son, ” one of the boy’s fathers shouts a particularly mpy moment.

Thought would be a homophobic explosn, ends up brgg the allyship out their muny. It’s not a negative portrayal, per se, but the tent behd the amg of the jocks as lovers seems to suggt beg gay is taboo. It reads as satiril now and has found an even more absurd life an off-Broadway mil but s assumptn of what means to be gay high school is bleak and stereotypil to say the least – no matter how hilarly dated referenc like a Joan Crawford postrd and meral water seem forward a few years to Amy Heckerlg’s Cluels, a loose adaptatn of Emma that pats a much different picture of gay high school.

HAD I KNOWN, I WOULD NEVER HAVE ACCEPTED THE ROLE OF A TOKEN GAY FRIEND

Cluels (1995) – source: Paramount PicturAs a gay teenager the ey of his peers, Christian is scribed as a “dis-danc’, Osr Wil read’, Streisand ticket hold’ iend of Dorothy, ” and while Cher keeps him around bee of his penchant for fashn and art – 1995 Ally of the Year, anyone?

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Teen film rpond by givg gay, but ually for edic effect or wh a twist. The GBF – or gay bt iend – stock character seemed to fd s form, but there was more tolerance than acceptance, wh LGBTQ characters typilly relegated to the outsted groups. Perhaps no one has embodied the role of gay bt iend que as well as Daniel Franze as Damian Mark Waters’ Mean Girls.

Janice regularly lls him “too gay to functn, ” and a particularly socially woke moment, Cady wonrs if ’s “only okay when Janice says that, ” after repeatg the joke to The Plastics. Damian is othered by his fellow stunts as the only gay kid high school when someone throws a shoe at him durg an pecially flamboyant performance of Christa Aguilera’s “Betiful.

”A crique is that none of the other stunts seem bothered by the fact that Damian’s bullied bee he’s gay. Brandon (Dan Byrd) is bullied bee stunts thk he is gay, and Olive (Emma Stone) pretends to hook up wh him at a party to stop the mors. Royal allows that ’s not easy for gay stunts to be out high school but mak progrs s suggtn that gets better.