{"id":55836,"date":"2020-07-09T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55836"},"modified":"2020-11-15T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T01:55:52","slug":"ben-platt-shares-how-he-came-out-as-gay-during-israel-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/ben-platt-shares-how-he-came-out-as-gay-during-israel-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Platt shares how he came out as gay during Israel trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CURT SCHLEIER<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 In a recently released Netflix film, Broadway star Ben Platt shared his coming out story \u2014 and it involves a trip to Israel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55838\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55838\" class=\"wp-image-55838 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55838\" class=\"wp-image-55838 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PLATT-GettyImages-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-55838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Platt in New York City, March 5, 2020. (Raymond Hall\/GC Images\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He shared the vignette from \u201cBen Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall,\u201d which debuted in May, in a clip on his Twitter account on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenSPLATT\/status\/1280248409140555776<\/p>\n<p>As Platt explains, he realized he was gay when he was 12, but hadn\u2019t felt it necessary to tell anyone.<br \/>\nI was in eighth grade on a trip to Israel, like you do in the eighth grade. When you\u2019re a Jew. A kid in my class who was on the trip made a comment something like, \u201cOh, Ben, is so lucky. Because he\u2019s gay he gets to hang out with all the girls and be in their hotel room because they don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was no derogatory thing at all.&nbsp; It wasn\u2019t a bullying thing. It was just true. All my friends were girls and they would let me hang out with them. But the chaperone overheard this.<\/p>\n<p>The chaperone assumed Platt was being bullied and planned to call his parents. He didn\u2019t want them to find out that way, so he went back to his Tel Aviv hotel and dialed home.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Julie, answered and he told her he needed to tell her something important. Before Ben could finish his sentence, mom blurted out: \u201cIs this about your sexuality?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cYou spent most of your childhood dressed as Dorothy from &#8216;The Wizard of Oz.&#8217; No one is surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Platt ends by wishing the same \u201cnothing experience\u201d for other young people struggling to come out.<br \/>\nPlatt, who has starred in Broadway shows such as \u201cDear Evan Hansen\u201d and transitioned to TV in Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Politician,\u201d released his debut album of original music last year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Ben%20Platt%20shares%20how%20he%20came%20out%20as%20gay%20during%20Israel%20trip\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139,7122],"tags":[9913,10751,8792,8781,8790,900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55839,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55836\/revisions\/55839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}