15 years sce Mean Girls' release, the actor reflects on Hollywood's "gay glass ceilg," holdg out for eper queer characters, and his favore moments om the inic film.
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- FOR MEAN GIRLS ON BROADWAY, "TOO GAY TO FUNCTN" IS A MANTRA
- ‘TOO GAY TO FUNCTN’? MEAN GIRLS ACTOR OUT LETTER TO CHARACTER TEN YEARS AFTER FILM RELEASE
- NOT TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
- TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
- TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: BURNOUTS FOLLOWG FRIENDS FOLLOW UNFOLLOW CHAT 161 REPUTATN 6 FOLLOWG 105 FOLLOWERS B SCE JUN 2018 (5 YEARS 72 DAYS) "FUGLY W" HI FULL B READ MORE POSTS (4) WALL (2) TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/21/18 I CREATED A CHAT ROOM :O OH MY GOD! SO I, THE NEWBIE I AM. CREATED A CHAT ROOM! PLEASE JO! 7 0 TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/19/18 FAN ART POLL! 82 VOT · VOTG HAS END JANIS 35.4% REGA 24.4% CADY 8.5% GRETCHEN 9.8% KAREN 21.9% 8 0 TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/17/18 MY FIRST POLL! 60 VOT · VOTG HAS END BE ORIGAL, MAKE NEW NTENT! 56.7% QUIZZ/POLLS/FANART 43.3% 13 1 TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/17/18 "FRH MEAT G THROUGH!" HIYA GUYS, I'M NEW HERE AND I'M OM PHILIPP AND JAPAN BUT CURRENTLY LIVG AT JAPAN. I WILL BE POSTG LOTS OF QUIZZ AND NTENTS! IF YOU HAPPEN TO LIKE MY STUFF I WILL BE POSTG MORE :) I'M SORRY IF MY ENGLISH IS BAD. CURRENTLY LEARNG JAPANE. PLEASE FOLLOW ME! I'D LOVE TO HAVE A BIG AMO... 14 5 NEXT PAGE COMMENT :SPARKL: вROOĸE LOнѕт :DIZZY: SO IS YOUR B SCRIBG YOURSELF OR JT A LE OM MEAN GIRLS READ MORE 0 REPLY 06/21/18 ☆IMMIGRANT × EEDIE☆ OH, YOU'RE NEW!☆HEY, STOP RIGHT THERE!☆HEY THERE, THE NAME'S EEDIE! ONE OF THIS LOVELY MUNY'S CURATORS. NEED HELP? FEEL EE TO MSAGE WH ANY NCERNS!HERE THE MEAN GIRLS: THE MIL AMO, WE ALLOW POSTS CLUDG COSPLAYS, FAN ART, EDS, COVERS AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!WE HAVE A FEW CHATS YOU N JO TO HOPEFULLY TERACT WH ONE ANOTHER AND MAYBE MEET A NEW PAL TO BE FETCH AND S WH!HAVE A GREAT TIME HERE AT THE AMO, 'LL BE FETCH! READ MORE 0 REPLY 06/09/18 YOU ARE BLOCKED OM FOLLOWG THIS ER AND VIEWG THIS ER'S POSTS. MEAN GIRLS: THE MIL AMO
- TOO GAY
- MEAN GIRLS: ALMOST TOO GAY TO FUNCTN ESSENTIAL T-SHIRT
- MEAN GIRLS STAR DANIEL FRANZE OUT OPEN LETTER TO DAMIAN, HIS GAY CHARACTER OM THE 2004 FILM
FOR MEAN GIRLS ON BROADWAY, "TOO GAY TO FUNCTN" IS A MANTRA
* too gay to function mean girls *
“He’s almost too gay to functn.
”In 2004, when Mean Girls was released, characters like Damian — also known as the Gay Bt Friend trope — were few and far between. The stg director that put me Party Monster lled me for Damian; the script said that he was “probably fat and fely gay, ” which I thought was hysteril.
Nobody was gog to stop do you thk Damian f to the leage of the “gay bt iend” trope film? I thk Damian was the first gay role I saw where the character was jt fortable beg himself and there wasn’t too much foc on his beg gay. You knew he was gay.
‘TOO GAY TO FUNCTN’? MEAN GIRLS ACTOR OUT LETTER TO CHARACTER TEN YEARS AFTER FILM RELEASE
Grey Henson, who plays Damian the Broadway productn of 'Mean Girls,' tells how he updated the inic gay character for 2018. * too gay to function mean girls *
But they told her that my character was gay and that’s why she let me sg the movie. But then, bee my character was gay, Lda Perry allowed me to sg “Betiful.
But I don’t thk would have affected the role at all if I was out or not bee I thk Ta probably thought I was gay when she first hired me anyway.
As soon as the movie was over, I kept meetg the gay glass ceilg.
NOT TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
Ten years after the release of the film, an actor who played Damien Mean Girls has e out as gay. * too gay to function mean girls *
I prayed about a b and if I was gog to do a gay role, was gog to be this one. But then, immediately after, I was offered all the other gay parts that were all so stereotypil — jt makg fun of gays.
TOO GAY TO FUNCTN
Defn of too gay to functn. A man who has gay terts (dancg, sgg, a gay dialect, sex wh other men) that make him not f wh others|농담으로 쓰는 표현입니다^^ "To functn" means "to n/to work" 와이파이 잘 안돼는 The wifi isn't workg(/functng) well. I'm so gay. I'm too gay. 실은 너무 게이나 엄청 게이라고 하면 이상하겠죠? 그냥 어떤 취향이나 취미가 있으시면 농담으로 "I'm so gay"라고 하는 사람 있습니다. 또는 어떤 친구가 엄청 예쁘다고 칭찬으로 "Wahh I thk I'm gay for you."라고 하시면 "와~ 나는 남자가 좋아하는데 너가 너무 예뻐서 어쩌지?" 그런 것 입니다. ㅋㅋ 너무 깁숙게 생각 안 해도 돼는데 이거 친구사이에 쓰는 표현입니다. 안 친한 사람에게 쓰시면... 이상할 수도 있습니다 괜찮을 수도 있고요 ㅋㅋㅋ. * too gay to function mean girls *
But I felt that there was a progrsn gaysploatn cema. It jt felt so serendipo — felt like somethg I was supposed to be dog, to be on a set where ’s not only okay to be gay but was ol to be gay. And the actor who plays him — Man, GA native Grey Henson — was certaly up for the challenge, havg honed his mil chops tourg wh The Book of Mormon for two years before jog s Broadway pop culture wasn’t pletely void of queer characters 2004, for Grey and so many others who grew up watchg Mean Girls, the openly-gay and overly nfint Damian felt like a revelatn.
TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: BURNOUTS FOLLOWG FRIENDS FOLLOW UNFOLLOW CHAT 161 REPUTATN 6 FOLLOWG 105 FOLLOWERS B SCE JUN 2018 (5 YEARS 72 DAYS) "FUGLY W" HI FULL B READ MORE POSTS (4) WALL (2) TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/21/18 I CREATED A CHAT ROOM :O OH MY GOD! SO I, THE NEWBIE I AM. CREATED A CHAT ROOM! PLEASE JO! 7 0 TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/19/18 FAN ART POLL! 82 VOT · VOTG HAS END JANIS 35.4% REGA 24.4% CADY 8.5% GRETCHEN 9.8% KAREN 21.9% 8 0 TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/17/18 MY FIRST POLL! 60 VOT · VOTG HAS END BE ORIGAL, MAKE NEW NTENT! 56.7% QUIZZ/POLLS/FANART 43.3% 13 1 TOO GAY TO FUNCTN :TM: 06/17/18 "FRH MEAT G THROUGH!" HIYA GUYS, I'M NEW HERE AND I'M OM PHILIPP AND JAPAN BUT CURRENTLY LIVG AT JAPAN. I WILL BE POSTG LOTS OF QUIZZ AND NTENTS! IF YOU HAPPEN TO LIKE MY STUFF I WILL BE POSTG MORE :) I'M SORRY IF MY ENGLISH IS BAD. CURRENTLY LEARNG JAPANE. PLEASE FOLLOW ME! I'D LOVE TO HAVE A BIG AMO... 14 5 NEXT PAGE COMMENT :SPARKL: вROOĸE LOнѕт :DIZZY: SO IS YOUR B SCRIBG YOURSELF OR JT A LE OM MEAN GIRLS READ MORE 0 REPLY 06/21/18 ☆IMMIGRANT × EEDIE☆ OH, YOU'RE NEW!☆HEY, STOP RIGHT THERE!☆HEY THERE, THE NAME'S EEDIE! ONE OF THIS LOVELY MUNY'S CURATORS. NEED HELP? FEEL EE TO MSAGE WH ANY NCERNS!HERE THE MEAN GIRLS: THE MIL AMO, WE ALLOW POSTS CLUDG COSPLAYS, FAN ART, EDS, COVERS AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!WE HAVE A FEW CHATS YOU N JO TO HOPEFULLY TERACT WH ONE ANOTHER AND MAYBE MEET A NEW PAL TO BE FETCH AND S WH!HAVE A GREAT TIME HERE AT THE AMO, 'LL BE FETCH! READ MORE 0 REPLY 06/09/18 YOU ARE BLOCKED OM FOLLOWG THIS ER AND VIEWG THIS ER'S POSTS. MEAN GIRLS: THE MIL AMO
A great memorable quote om the Mean Girls movie on - Janis: This is Damian: he's almost too gay to functn. * too gay to function mean girls *
Wh Grey at the helm, the mil’s Damian go beyond beg “too gay to functn” — Grey gets to lean to his queerns a way he simply wasn’t given the chance to the film.
TOO GAY
A male who is blatantly gay but acts like he is still the closet and no one knows, when around other mal, he nnot help but be fltered and out of sorts" name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * too gay to function mean girls *
As a gay man, seeg Damian out and proud as a teen was a really awome experience, bee g om Geia you never saw embodi that sort of theatril weirdo every high school had. I’ve spoken to a lot of queer men who’ve sgled out Damian as one of the first openly gay characters they ronated wh onscreen.
Before the ter and social media took off, beg gay was jt somethg you didn't hear about. Lots of kids, quote un-quote Damians themselv, have told me 's amazg to see someone reprented and celebrated on such a big platform that isn't a geo, okie-cutter, tan, bleach-blon gay guy wh abs.
MEAN GIRLS: ALMOST TOO GAY TO FUNCTN ESSENTIAL T-SHIRT
Somethg that is over the top gayns." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * too gay to function mean girls *
As vic as girls n be, the gay muny n be pretty vic too, pecially as you go through your 20s. The biggt thg for me g to the show was not to make him a stereotype the way you thk of the "gay bt iend" like a flamboyant, over-the-top queen wh purs fallg out of his mouth.
When he isn’t phg the gay agenda, you n ually fd him talkg about Big Ltle Li or Lryn Hill to anyone willg to listen.
MEAN GIRLS STAR DANIEL FRANZE OUT OPEN LETTER TO DAMIAN, HIS GAY CHARACTER OM THE 2004 FILM
Damian: Janis Ian - Oh, that's "Too gay to functn? Ten years after the release of the film, an actor who played Damien Mean Girls has e out as gay.
In a letter to the character, dubbed “too gay to functn” the h teen edy, Daniel Franze has wrten a letter to the character addrsg issu such as typestg.