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Reneé Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion Performed Together on Saturday Night Live, and Reneé Rapp Identifies as a Lesbian Now
I am here today because I am gay. Like this gay lighting. (Photo by: Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images)
Okay I know I only recently started doing Monday Pop Culture Fixes and I know that a disproportionate amount of them have been about Reneé Rapp but IN MY DEFENSE she stays being iconic.
This weekend, Reneé Rapp was the musical guest on SNL and with her she brought many joys. For one, she was introduced by the original Regina George, Rachel McAdams. When I tell you I screamed. Then, she brought out Megan Thee Stallion to perform their new ballad (from the Mean Girls soundtrack), “Not My Fault.”
She also was in a skit where she played a sapphic intern who was doing the internship as part of her court-mandated media training, a nod to the comments that she’s been delightfully unhinged in her interviews.
Also Reneé Rapp identifies as a womxn loving womxn now! She was sort of soft launching this information over the course of the Mean Girls press tour in various interviews, but she explicitly talked about it on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM radio
“It is the coolest thing ever because I’ve only recently started referring to myself as a lesbian, and I’ve only recently been in a affair where I’m enjoy, ‘Yeah, I’m a lesbian for sure,’” Reneé Rapp told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday. The Sex Lives of College Girls thespian and singer describes watching footage on TikTok of scenes from the show’s first season, in which her fan-favorite character Leighton Murray comes out as a lesbian. The scene, she establish, shared parallels with her lived reality.
“It is so engaging that at the time I wasn’t even aware that what I was experiencing in my own personal animation was actually exactly what I was doing onscreen. I was in a relationship with a man, incredibly muddled, unsure of myself, feeling so insecure in my acting. And I watched the scene the other day, and I was favor, ‘Wow, I perceive so lucky to have that,’” Rapp told THR.
The process, Rapp shares, was not without its complexities. “I assume it made it a lot easier in ways that pissed me off but I’m also really grateful for. That [show] was the most parallel experience in my life, and I remember doing that specific coming-out scene and not acting
Reneé Rapp is a rising star! Known for her role in Mean Girls and HBO Max’s Sex Lives of College Girls, the actress originally got her start on Broadwayand has since launched a super successful music career. Since her rise to fame, Reneé has opened up about her sexuality as it relates to her character on Sex Lives of College Girls. Keep reading for everything she has said.
On Sex Lives of College Girls, the “tattoos” singer plays Leighton, a college-aged female grappling with her sexuality.
‘Reneé, who is openly bisexual person, told Buzzfeed in December 2022 that she often has to separate her own experiences from the character on the reveal, adding that Leighton has empowered her on her own queer journey.
“I don’t think I ever really dealt with those emotions as outwardly as Leighton did,” she said. “I kind of … just let s— go, in a bad way.”
Additionally, on a podcast episode of “Call Her Daddy” from March 2023, Renee distributed that her experience with coming out was not taken seriously by the people around her. “I was just, like, laughed at every time I tried to come out. So then I never really talked about it. And I had always just said, ‘I just was one of those people
“Lesbian” has been a fraught word in the queer group for many years. This was discussed in the mainstream recently in the BBC’s sapphic actual world dating show I Kissed A Young woman, where contestants were shown having an emotional conversation about their difficult relationships with the word.
“It is a synonyms that has been taken and made negative. Growing up, it was used in a way that suggested something was wrong with you,” said Georgia, one of the contestants. “Being a lesbian is something to be so proud of, but a lot of the time I don’t really comprehend how to … I didn’t realise how deep, and how many emotions I had attached to the truth that I fight to actually declare ‘lesbian’.”
The word “lesbian” was used throughout my own childhood in the early- and mid-2000s as a playground insult, much like “gay”. The word was not only used as an insult, but also often positioned as exclusionary.
Some trans-exclusionary fundamental feminists argue that the existence of trans people is a form of “lesbian erasure”, a belief which has been heavily refuted by other feminist and queer communities. These factors hold led to some queer people who embrace the place of the T in LGBT to reject the synonyms “lesbi