Gay Awakening: How ‘Mean Girls’ Changed Lives

by Marcus Wratten for PinkNews –

Twenty two-year-old, New Brunswick-based Drew Hudson was six the first time he watched 2004’s pop culture phenomenon Mean Girls.

When he’d stay at his mum’s apartment, her neighbour would always put on movies that he “definitely wasn’t supposed to watch, because I was way too young,” he tells PinkNews. Out of all of them, Mean Girls stuck.

Twenty years after the film’s release, and its presence in popular culture hasn’t waned. The 2018 Broadway adaptation was nominated for 12 Tony awards; Ariana Grande used the film as a basis for her “Thank U Next” video. You’re never too far from someone reciting one of its endlessly quotable lines. Now, a film adaptation of the musical is in cinemas.

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