'Mean Girls' star Jonathan Bent reflects on beg a ‘closeted gay teen heartthrob’

Contents:

• DID YOU KNOW ALL THE 'MEAN GIRLS' GUYS ARE GAY NOW?
• CALL ME BY MY PRONOUNS: WHY GAY MEN CALL EACH OTHER "GIRL"
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• WHAT DO "GAY" MEAN?
• MEAN GAYS
• UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI
• FOR ‘MEAN GIRLS’ ACTOR DANIEL FRANZE, PLAYG AN INIC GAY BT FRIEND WAS A BLSG AND A CURSE

DID YOU KNOW ALL THE 'MEAN GIRLS' GUYS ARE GAY NOW?

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Seventeen years after s release, the film is still quoted and meme'd to this day, cementg as a staple of pop while 's certaly bee a part of gay non, a movie that impacted nearly every LGBTQ+ person of a certa age, did you know that the ma three male characters the film have all e out as gay? That news has gone viral over at Buzzfeed, who piled the g outs of each Mean Girls actor earlier this Franze, who played Damian the film, me out as gay then, Franze has been an important voice for LGBTQ+ rights and appeared on queer shows like Lookg and RuPl's Drag Race. He didn't e out as gay himself until 2017.

He even reprised his role as Aaron Samuels for a quick meo Ariana Gran's "thank u, next" mic to round out the list, Rajiv Surendra, who played Kev G, me out as gay 2018 to KajalMag.

CALL ME BY MY PRONOUNS: WHY GAY MEN CALL EACH OTHER "GIRL"

"I know full well that if I was an openly gay actor, there was no way I’d be nsired for the role of a sixteen-year-old relig Indian kid a movie that Fox was puttg $100 ln to, " he said the terview. "We're so grateful to all the st for makg Mean Girls even gayer than already was! The e of she/her pronouns by cisgenr gay men, along wh words such as "girl" or "honey, " is a long-standg and creasgly visible practice.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS

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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

It may be time to reevaluate cis gay men’s e of words like "she" and "girl" to make sure they align wh ongog efforts to rpect nonbary genr inti, and avoid makg assumptns about people’s pronouns. Lguists, social scientists, and crics have observed and studied cis gay men’s e of “she, ” and their asssments pot to the multiple and often nflictg dimensns of the practice.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

So for even to make sense for gay men to e ‘she, ’ we have to have some kd of associatn wh ‘she, ’ and ually that associatn is femy, whatever that might mean to or our culture. “Men g women’s pronouns, and women g men’s pronouns, has got an enormo time pth Amerin lbian-gay English. It’s not a recent formatn at all, ” explas William Leap, an emer profsor of anthropology at Amerin Universy and pneerg expert on queer men llg each other "she" or "girl" was historilly a way of protectg themselv as well as buildg muny the ntext of homophobic and vlent mastream culture.

In the 1940s, ary censors were on the lookout for evince of homosexualy, which uld provoke a ary vtigatn. ”Usg words like "she" and "girl" n be a way for cis gay men to bond and embrace femy. ”Yet some women have experienced gay men g words like “girl” toward them ways that don’t feel all that different om the misogyny they have experienced om straight men.

“I also saw beg negatively ed when whe gay men would say, like, ‘Oh girl, what are you talkg about, ’ and they would be talkg to a woman of lor, pecially a Black woman. ”Consirg misogyny wh gay men’s language practic rais the qutn of how g words like “girl” or “honey” is nnected to their e of other, more ntroversial words that have historilly been ed to mean women, such as “bch” and “cunt. ” Multiple terviewe referenced RuPl’s Drag Race as a show that has popularized the e of words associated wh femy among cis gay men.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

”“Gay men are a large group of people wh a lot of different kds of relatnships to genr, and I thk there are absolutely gay men who operate relatn to feme language that really is a reflectn of their male privilege, whether ’s through g ways that nigrate or stereotype women, or whether ’s jt feelg license to e the language how they see f, ” says Zimman, the lguist om UC Santa Barbara. “Of urse, gay men are men. Paris Is Burng, the 1990 documentary on Harlem’s drag ball scene, as well as Drag Race, have brought the e of words like "she" and "girl" between Black and Latx drag queens to a wir gay (and straight) dience; today this is somethg employed by gay men of all rac.

Wealthy whe gay cis men llg each other "girl" may be drastilly different om Black or Latx gay cis men who ntue to be margalized very different is visible a film like Paris Is Burng, a few s ago there were more shared spac, language, and culture between cis gay men, trans women, and genr-nonnformg dividuals. “This is the mastream gay ia of beg jt like straight people, except for whom one is attracted to. That kd of rejectn of genr nonnormativy also giv the suatn we fd today, where we have more of a spl between gay men and trans women, for stance, than we might have seen prev s.

“Wh ‘girl/she/her, ’” they say, “if I’m socializg wh cis gay men and that’s what they’re g to scribe each other and to scribe me, there is a ltle b of dissonance there, bee I’m not really sure if they’re g that to validate my genr, or if ’s beg ed as ’s ed wh other cis gay men. Gay men’s tradn of playg wh pronouns and refg to abi by the genr bary n be a part of this effort. "Beg a closeted gay teen heartthrob, livg misery, I never would have thought a ln years that one day I would be on the ver of the biggt weddg magaze the world wh my fiancé, who I love, a picture that is pure pri and joy, " Bent tells Yahoo Life.

WHAT DO "GAY" MEAN?

"While the uple has been livg loudly and proudly sce gettg together 2017, the impact of Bent's exposure as a gay man isn't lost on Vghan. ""We want to make sure that we help to intify bs and vendors that gay upl n go to om the moment they want to get engaged until their honeymoon and fd plac where they're safe and celebrated, " Vghan 's for this exact reason that the uple also teamed up to create OUTbound — a travel pany lookg to create memorable excursns for the LGBTQ muny.

Not bee they are bad, or homophobic, or transphobic… but bee the reali are not their own lived experience, or bee workg alongsi the groups may be a newer experience for them.

MEAN GAYS

E., bisexual, gay, straight.

Nightlight ci om ast to ast have always been gay-centric and left queer, transgenr, and genr-nonnformg people at the door.

UNRSTANDG GAY & LBIAN INTI

But for GAMI, the Miami born and raised T-girl, this kd of homosexual nonsense she’s wnsed growg up the cy is ready for retirement. Gay.

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

It’s not pletely known what someone to be lbian, gay, straight, or bisexual, but your sexual orientatn probably started at a very young age.

You also n’t “turn” a person gay. The term "gay" may be nfg and even foreign to some, forcg people to ask, "What is gay?" or "Am I Gay?" And while some might thk the fn of "gay" is simple, to many, actually isn't. While "gay" n be thought of as a synonym to "homosexual," there is more to the meang of gay than that.