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DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
A lot has changed sce the summer of 2000: Gay marriage is now legal throughout the Uned Stat, RuPl has an Emmy-award wng TV show, and more and more public figur, om policians to fluencers, have e out as gay, bi, or trans. Durg the scene when Megan adms to herself that she is, fact, “a homosexual, ” she reach her emotnal peak wh a dramatic ugly-cry, cross-eyed and droolg. ” The movie centers on a lbian high school cheerlear (played by Natasha Lyonne), whose parents send her to a nversn therapy mp to cure her homosexualy.
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