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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. * is connor gay in dear evan hansen *

He was the first openly gay person Connor knew.

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

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) 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.

EW TALKS YA: REVIEWS OF A BTERSWEET GAY ROM-, THE DEAR EVAN HANSEN NOVEL, AND MORE

Evan Hansen (out gay actor Ben Platt, reprisg his Broadway role) has cripplg social anxiety. And fans of the Tony-wng mil “Dear Evan Hansen,” along wh the cur, should approach the film versn not jt wh great anxiety, but wh actual fear, for may soon turn to loathg. * is connor gay in dear evan hansen *

Yet this pervasive notn, that Evan is gay, lgers on, years sce the Broadway blockbter’s but.

CONNOR IS GAY

We all know that one guy named Connor. You know, the one that is always annoyg you and tryg to act ol? Yeah, well turns out that iend is gay. Yep, all Connor's are gay. Except of urse for our lord and savr Conor Mcgregor." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * is connor gay in dear evan hansen *

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.

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FYI: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Is Actually Not About a Gay Teen .

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