Chris Colfer Was 'Terrified' to Portray a Gay Character on 'Glee'

Contents:

• KURT COBA'S 1993 ADVOTE COVER STORY: 'I'M GAY SPIR'
• THE REASON KURT COBA PRETEND TO BE GAY FOR YEARS
• Y, KURT COBA WAS A GNGE IN. HE WAS ALSO A GAY RIGHTS HERO.
• 'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET

KURT COBA'S 1993 ADVOTE COVER STORY: 'I'M GAY SPIR'

The men were proudly sexist and homophobic (Skid Row's Sebastian Bach famoly wore a T-shirt that read, "AIDS Kills Fags Dead"), on the other hand, was sensive and effemate -- someone who regularly spoke out for mori and lled out racism, misogyny, and homophobia. While many remember Coba and his Nirvana bandmat wearg drs and kissg vios and live performanc, virtually fotten is the fact that Nirvana performed at a gay rights benef Oregon promotg Nirvana's late-1992 pilatn album Inctici -- which clud the followg statement s ler not, "If any of you any way hate homosexuals, people of different lor, or women, please do this one favor for : leave the fuck alone! In the Advote article, Coba displayed fort speakg wh an LGBTQ publitn and a faiary wh gay culture, often g terms like "homophobia" and "misogyny, " appreciatg the scriptn of Love as a "fag hag, " and rellg the time he saw the Village People are some of the choict quot om the terview wh journalist Kev Advote: I read the ler not you wrote on Inctici.

I've never seen somebody on a major label say, "If you're a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, we don't want you to buy our rerds.

I n talk about those issu terviews -- I thk 's pretty obv that we're agast the homophob and the sexists and the racists, but when "Teen Spir" first me out, mastream dienc were unr the assumptn that we were jt like Guns N' were his words: "You shut your bch up, or I'm takg you down to the pavement.

THE REASON KURT COBA PRETEND TO BE GAY FOR YEARS

Those people are total sexist jerks, and the reason we're playg this show is to fight homophobia a real small way. The guy is a fuckg sexist and a racist and a homophobe, and you n't be on his si and be on our si. " [Lghs]You know, you were probably takg money om people who were votg y on 9 [an antigay ballot measure] -- but they really wanted to see Nirvana.

I ed to pretend I was gay jt to fuck wh people.

I've had the reputatn of beg a homosexual every day sce I was 14. It was really ol, bee I found a uple of gay iends Aberen [Wash. How I uld ever e across a gay person Aberen is amazg!

Y, KURT COBA WAS A GNGE IN. HE WAS ALSO A GAY RIGHTS HERO.

But once I got the gay tag, gave me the eedom to be able to be a eak and let people know that they should jt stay away om me. Instead of havg to expla to someone that they should jt stay the fuck away om me-I'm gay, so I n't even be touched. Que a few you ed to spray-pat GOD IS GAY on people's tcks?

'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET

Bee people thought you were gay and you had gay iends, did you ever wonr if you might be gay?

And I've always been a really sickly, feme person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while bee I didn't fd any of the girls my high school attractive at all. So I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm jt more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay iends, bee totally saved me om beg a monk or somethg.

I mean, I'm fely gay spir, and I probably uld be bisexual.