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Darren Criss claiming he’s ‘culturally queer’ isn’t just embarrassing, it’s ignorant

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I have been so culturally queer my whole life,” said sexually straight , the 37-year-old former star of . The cisgender actor and musician was earlier this week when he made the remark, explaining: “I was gonna say, ‘Not because I’m trying to be cool...’ but I’m gonna erase that, because I trying to be cool. The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from and be inspired by are 100 per cent

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