Dear Evan Hansen said, “No homo.”
found that a staggering 52% of trans and nonbinary people under the age of 25 contemplated suicide in 2020. Anddoesn’t just imply the possibility of sucidal ideation; alongside Connor’s death by suicide at the beginning of the show, Evan sports a cast on a broken arm; we’re told he fell out of a tree over summer vacation. Until, near the very end, we learn the much darker truth. Evan’s injury was no accident, but a marker of surviving a suicide attempt.
The It Gets Better Project took off in 2010, thanks to a bracingly emotional, and now-viral, video from co-founders Dan Savage and Terry Miller, who implored LGBTQ kids to stay alive because life, well, gets better. In the show, Evan goes viral in much the same way. He and his classmates even go on to name their effort … The Connor Project.Queer people sometimes get accused of reading too much into art, seeking representation where—so the omniscientsay—there is none. That’s bullshit.
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