Dear evan hansen about being gay
The “gay boys in New York” young adult novel What If It’s Us came out (joke!) on October 9th. That adj day also saw the free of Dear Evan Hansen, a novelization of the Broadway verb that retains the musical’s small-scale gay-friendly jokes and adds in a gay subplot; Odd One Out by Nic Stone, which includes multiple teen people of color and multiple sexual orientations; and Alan Cole Doesn’t Move by Eric Bell, a middle grade novel about the further adventures of Alan, who chose to be openly gay one book earlier. And those are just the ones I understand about!
The most notable fact about this crush of queer teen novels is how un-notable they are. It’s not Gay Pride Month and having them all be released on the matching day is pure happenstance, fancy when gay people meet at a non-gay event, such as when I’d bump into other queer folk in the bleachers at Yankee Stadium. Oh hey, you too? What’s up?
Another usual thread connecting these books is how grappling with sexual orientation is so not the indicate. Ever since S.E. Hinton championed The Outsiders and Judy Blume tackled every social iss
Student Blog: Dear Evan Hansen is Not A Queer Musical: Why Are We Ignoring Actual LGBTQ+ Musicals?
Recently, the trailer for Dear Evan Hansen dropped online and the internet was abuzz with emotions. Some people were excited, some were confused, and others were feeling a lot of different things.
One topic of conversation surrounding the trailer was the fact that many thought that Evan Hansen was queer. (In this article, I will be using the term "queer" to describe the LGBTQ+ community because as a queer person, I feel comfortable with the term). An article, that can no longer be set up online, described Dear Evan Hansen as a gay musical. This article generated outrage among many people because there is nothing queer about Dear Evan Hansen. The only time anything queer is mentioned in the reveal is during "Sincerely, Me" with the lines "Our friendship goes beyond/your average kind of bond/but not because we're gay". Nothing else in the show discusses or brings up anything related to queerness or being gay. So, why is it being considered a gay musi
“DearEvanHansen” is a cultural phenomenon.
Few Broadway musicals in recent memory have achieved such a far-reaching impact across a diverse array of audiences. It’s a display that brings people together from all walks of life, and provides a poignant commentary that rings cuttingly for the digital age.
And the hype surrounding it just keeps building ― even receiving a shoutout in the most recent season of cult television show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
“It’s been something that really courteous of caught us all by surprise, to be honest,” Steven Levenson, who wrote the novel for “Dear Evan Hansen,” told HuffPost. “I mean you don’t, or at least I don’t, start off trying to inscribe something that has universal appeal, you know?”
Matthew Murphy
In the demonstrate , Evan Hansen ― a role originated on Broadway by Tony Award winner Ben Platt, and currently played by Taylor Trensch ― is a senior in high school who struggles with extreme social anxiety. After something horrible happens to one of his classmates, Hansen finds himself telling a lie that eventually has monumental implications ― an
Evan Hansen (out gay actor Ben Platt, reprising his Broadway role) has crippling social anxiety. And fans of the Tony-winning musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” along with the curious, should approach the film version not just with great anxiety, but with actual fear, for it may soon turn to loathing. Directed by Stephen Chbosky (“The Perks of Being a Wallflower”), this film adaptation of the smash smash show — which opens September 24 in theatres — lacks spark.
The story, for the uninitiated, has Evan Hansen starting his first day of his senior year of high school with trepidation. (Platt is a decade older than the character he plays, and as the film progresses, he looks even older). He has no friends and a cast on his arm. (He claims he broke it falling out of a tree; clunky flashbacks illustrate this). As part of a therapy exercise, he writes letters to himself that are meant to be optimistic. However, his days verb so poorly, his hopeful, upbeat tone changes and despair makes it onto the page.
“Dear Evan Hansen” has trouble with tone too. The musical numbers are presented in ways that