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Contents:
- DID YOU THK EVAN HANSEN WAS GAY? YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
- WHY DID PEOPLE THK DEAR EVAN HANSEN WAS A GAY MIL?
- EW TALKS YA: REVIEWS OF A BTERSWEET GAY ROM-, THE DEAR EVAN HANSEN NOVEL, AND MORE
- CONNOR IS GAY
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. ) 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.
Yet this pervasive notn, that Evan is gay, lgers on, years sce the Broadway blockbter’s but.
WHY DID PEOPLE THK DEAR EVAN HANSEN WAS A GAY MIL?
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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.
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 *
But ’s unfair to say that to watch Dear Evan Hansen and fd gay subtext is like readg tea leav for a hidn sign. Makg Connor nonilly queer only nfirms what so many fans and crics of the show knew herently, and what a zilln other people on Twter felt about the show whout really ever engagg wh the material beyond the surface: Dear Evan Hansen is, ep down, as gay a story as they e. “The gay inty—you’re livg a world where the world is basilly tellg you that you’re not enough.
” Dear Evan Hansen traffics gay stereotyp and experienc, g them for s own benef to make Evan as othered om his classmat as possible (as othered as a whe man ever n be, that is). LGBTQ fans are wele to fd themselv him, while ternalized homophobia keeps the verse suatn, a straight dience member relatg to a gay character, om beg a realy the show nsirs. All that we’re left wh are clichéd trop and close, vented, fely not gay male iendships.
No wonr people thk Evan Hansen is gay, no matter how hard the mil might try to stop them om dog so. It’s PG-13, but not Over the TopDear Evan Hansen is rated PG-13 for thematic elements (cludg discsn of suici), brief strong language (cludg an f-bomb – tails below), and some suggtive ’s iend Jared, who is gay, mak several suggtive ments, and at one pot, mentns how he “hooked up” wh a Brazilian male mol. (Evan is not gay, and although Connor wears black nail polish, the film don’t explicly say he’s gay.
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 *
So why was there an ia that Dear Evan Hansen was about a gay kid? He mak a lot of jok about there beg a secret gay relatnship between Evan and Connor.
That is pretty much as “gay” as gets. Evan beg seen as gay seems to have more to do wh how— 2016, when the show opened on Broadway—a lot of gay media had teenagers beg the subject of bullyg. Evan’s role as the “other” for his mental health and anxiety seemed to make those who’d never really seen the show thk he was gay.