In fact, that's the big reason he turned his life story into a musical-for other people. Sure, he'll suck up all the attention in a room like a Hoover, but he still cares about other people. No matter what Tiny does, people love him.īut this doesn't mean that Tiny is all about himself. If they do, they get shut down right away. No one makes fun of him for being gay or even for being unapologetically into musical theater. Sure, Tiny isn't conventionally attractive (he's actually "big-boned" (16.100)), but he has friends and boyfriends coming out the wazoo. Will is even jealous of all the attention he gets.
He rushes into a room and all eyes are on him-and he clearly loves it.
To be fair to Will, though, anyone would feel small standing next to Tiny Cooper. Tiny is huge, confident, loud, clever, and talented, all things that Will isn't. So while Tiny and Will have been friends since fifth grade, it isn't as great as you might imagine. Yes, Tiny is physically large, but he also has a huge personality-he's large in every way. Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large. Will pretty much sums up his best friend with this quote: Tiny Cooper is the man between our Will Graysons-best friend to Will and first boyfriend to will, Tiny's kind of at the center of everything. I got temporary custody to write Hold Me Closer. We like to say that he was born from one father, but raised by two dads. But from the minute I heard John read that first chapter, I knew Tiny would find his way over to my side of the book. Tiny Cooper was entirely John's invention, from his first chapter of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Whose idea was he, originally? And how did you decide to do a real version of Hold Me Closer? "But my high school years would have been much more colorful and much more musical if he'd been around." In an email conversation, Levithan told me that as a teenager, he probably wouldn't have had the stamina to keep up with Tiny. Now, Levithan has given Tiny his own starring role in Hold Me Closer, a fully realized version of that magnum opus. In Will Grayson - co-written by John Green and David Levithan - Tiny used those 18 ex-boyfriends as fodder for a musical version of his life. Readers met the flamboyant high school football player and would-be musical impresario as a side character in the 2010 novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson and fell in love - about as quickly as Tiny did with each of his 18 exes. Tiny Cooper is your new boyfriend (well, not mine, he doesn't swing that way). Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Hold Me Closer Subtitle The Tiny Cooper Story Author David Levithan
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