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Her parents and friends conclude that she *must* be gay and send her off to 'sexual redirection' school, full of admittedly homosexual misfits, where she can learn how to be straight. She's a cheerleader and has a boyfriend, but she doesn't like kissing him very much, and she's pretty tactile with her cheerleader friends, and she only has pictures of girls up in her locker. Will Megan be turned around to successful heterosexuality, or will she succumb to her love for the beautiful Graham?

During his nomination process, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi compared being gay to a disease,'just like alcohol.or sex addiction.or kleptomania.Megan is an all-American girl. Hormel was sworn in as the first openly gay U.S. Just the year before, in October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, had been viciously beaten to death, and tied to a fence for 18 hours, an act of violence that shocked the nation. Bill Clinton’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy was less than a decade old. Ellen DeGeneres’ “Yep, I’m Gay” 1997 Time Magazine cover was still fresh in the collective imagination.

At the time of But I’m A Cheerleader’s release, Will and Grace had barely wrapped its first season on NBC. But the flip side of that progress was an equally public strain of virulent homophobia, the impact of which we still feel today. The 1990s marked a time of increased visibility for the LGBTQ community within the public sphere. That’s not all that surprising given the political context from which the film emerged. And so, Megan is enrolled at True Directions, a gay conversion center run by Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty), an aggressively terrifying cross between Nancy Reagan and Barbie in a bubblegum pink suit, who drills her wards in how to behave like straight people. This sudden turn towards vegetarianism, the Melissa Etheridge posters in her room and locker, the vaginal motifs in her carpet, the signs are all there! “Honey, we think you’re a…lesbian” her mother Nancy (Mink Stoll) confesses in hushed tones. In the cast are Alice Croft (she/her) as Megan, Oliver Brooks (he/him) as Dad/Larry, Edward Chitticks (he/him) as Jared/Rock, Damon Gould (he/him). The musical is based on Jamie Babbits cult classic Lionsgate motion picture. Sure, his kisses are kind of gross - but maybe he’s just not very good at it? And doesn’t every young woman fantasize about their girlfriends’ long, lean legs? Nevertheless, one day, she comes home to find that her family and friends have staged an intervention. Portrait photos have been released showing cast members from the musical version of But Im A Cheerleader.

She’s blonde, gets good grades, goes to church, and is dating a football player. After all, the chipper 17-year-old protagonist of But I’m A Cheerleader is a poster child for the All-American Girl. Megan Bloomfield (Natasha Lyonne) doesn’t believe that she’s a lesbian.

But im a cheerleader cast