“That would be very strange, but it would be fun,” Turton says. “It certainly doesn’t bother me, but I don’t know if I’m deserving of being a gay icon.”

In Saved!, Turton has a small role as a gay roommate to one of the main characters. And in Gypsy 83, he plays Clive, a gay goth teen who questions whether or not he’s even gay because he doesn’t fit the stereotype of worshipping Judy Garland and loving show tunes.

“He’s looking for his own stereotype,” Turton says. “The goth thing with him is set by the gay thing, sort of like he’s already an outsider, so he chooses to make himself so obviously an outsider by changing his wardrobe.

Turton was the same age as Clive when he made Gypsy 83, and he says he understood what his character was going through.

“I related to his need to grab onto something solid, like a best friend or a sexuality or a certain aesthetic to give him an identity,” Turton says.