Did You Know All the ‘Mean Girls’ Guys Are Gay Now? – Yahoo! Voices
There’s no doubt that 2004 comedy Mean Girls defined a generation. Seventeen years after its release, the film is still quoted and meme’d to this day, cementing it as a staple of pop culture.
And while it’s certainly become a part of gay canon, a movie that impacted nearly every LGBTQ+ person of a certain age, did you know that the main three male characters in the film have all come out as gay?
That news has gone viral over at Buzzfeed, who compiled the coming outs of each Mean Girls actor earlier this week.
Daniel Franzese, who played Damian in the film, came out as gay in 2014.
Since then, Franzese has been an important voice for LGBTQ+ rights and appeared on queer shows like Looking and RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Jonathan Bennett, who stole our hearts as the teen heartthrob Aaron Samuels, was reportedly outed by Julianne Hough later in 2014. He didn’t come out as gay himself until 2017.
Bennett has been embraced by the community and is currently married to his partner, Jaymes Vaughan. He even reprised his role as Aaron Samuels for a quick cameo in Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next” music video.
And to round out the list, Rajiv Surendra, who played Kevin G, came out as gay in 2018 to KajalMag. “I know full well that if I was an openly gay actor, there was no way I’d be considered for the role of a sixteen-year-old religious Indian kid in a movie that Fox was putting $100 million into,” he said in the interview.
Following the success of Mean Girls, he moved to Munich, Germany. “What was easy for me is that I moved to a completely foreign country. I had complete anonymity there, which I think helped me come to terms with doing what I wanted. I didn’t need to be worried about what everyone else thought.”
We’re so grateful to all the cast for making Mean Girls even gayer than it already was!