Lena Dunham says she wants her casket to be driven through a pride parade

She’s a talented writer, a challenging character, a funny person, but Lena Dunham really doesn’t do herself any favours sometimes. 

Her latest online mishap is a doozy. “When I go, I want my casket to be driven through the NYC pride parade with a plaque that reads ‘she wasn’t for everyone, but she *was* for us’- who can arrange?” she tweeted.

Is it ill-advised sincerity? Is it satire? Most people on the internet have already decided it’s the former, with the Dunham immediately facing immense backlash for the tweet.

“No. Like there’s allyship and then there’s this. Like chill, it’s not a best ally competition,” wrote RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12 winner Jaida Essence Hall on Twitter. “We haven’t had a good old fashioned Lena Dunham Moment in a while!” noted journalist Louis Staples.

Stevie of indie rock band Adult Mom maybe had the most apt reaction, simply quote tweeting with an image of Veep character Selina Mayer looking extremely exhausted.

To give Dunham credit, she’s previously been outspoken about her support for the LGBTQIA+ community. In the 2014 documentary Suited, she insisted that she wouldn’t get hitched until same-sex marriage was legal in the U.S.; after that finally happened last year, she soon got married to her boyfriend, Luis Felber, after dating for several months.

So Lena Dunham probably doesn’t want her funeral procession to take place slap bang in the middle of a pride parade. And if anyone has a skin thick enough to cope with such inevitable backlash, it’s the creator of Girls.

10 years after her acclaimed HBO comedy premiered, Dunham is currently promoting her new medieval comedy Catherine Called Birdy. Based on the classic children’s novel of the same name, the film arrives on Prime Video this Friday, October 7th.

Set in medieval England, the story follows Lady Catherine, the daughter of a financially destitute Lord, who thwarts her father’s greedy plan to marry her off to a wealthy suitor. When the most vile suitor of all arrives, her parent’s love for her becomes truly tested.

oh sweetie, you don’t have to wait that long to be dragged by the gays. https://t.co/dqHFpqh4SH

— Elaine Atwell (@ElaineAtwell) October 2, 2022

No. Like there’s allyship and then there’s this. Like chill, it’s not a best ally competition. https://t.co/mrcRpgi0aD

— Jaida Essence Yee-Hall Yall!!!! (@jaidaehall) October 2, 2022

we haven’t had a good old fashioned Lena Dunham Moment in a while! https://t.co/2dWPYybnd8

— Louis Staples (@LouisStaples) October 2, 2022

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