In this September 2022 episode of the Lez Hang Out podcast, writer and actor Mary Holland talks about why Mean Girls, an iconic film that many millennials can still quote verbatim, should've been gay.

Mean Girls was the defining movie of the early 2000s, and though way too many of the jokes did not age well – hello casual homophobia, racism, and ableism – it's still unmatched when it comes to showcasing the intricacies of female bullying and American High School dynamics.

Even though we have now completed more than 100 Should've Been Gay segments for the Lez Hang Out podcast, we are constantly amazed by just how queer so many of the movies we grew up with were.

While the movie canonically gives us one 'too gay to function' main character in Damian, we argue that every single character in Mean Girls can be – and should have – been interpreted as gay.