After playg the openly gay Glee character Kurt Hummel, Chris Colfer admted he was "absolutely terrified" as he wasn't yet out himself" emprop="scriptn
Contents:
- CHRIS COLFER WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' PLAYG OPENLY GAY 'GLEE' ROLE KURT AS HE WASN'T YET OUT
- THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
- WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?
CHRIS COLFER WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' PLAYG OPENLY GAY 'GLEE' ROLE KURT AS HE WASN'T YET OUT
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"I'm actually kd of grateful for , " Chris Colfer admted of playg his openly gay Glee character Kurt Hummel before he ultimately me out himself 2009. The Goln Globe wner, 32, reflected on how "sry" was playg the openly gay character of Kurt Hummel when he wasn't yet out himself, as he ught up wh fellow Glee alums Kev McHale and Jenna Ushkowz on Thursday's episo of their And That's What You Really Missed podst. And then when I fally got the script was when I realized was the gay character, and I was terrified, " Colfer add.
Colfer revealed on the podst that he even had a fay member (not his parents) tell him that playg a gay character "would your life, sentially. And back then, people told their clients, 'Don't play gay characters bee will your reer, '" Colfer said. McHale, 34, who also me out as gay 2018, asked Colfer if bothers him that they wrote a gay character specifilly for him.
Glee is too gay, seems, for the edors of Vany Fair's webse, who apologised this week when a wrer fot where he was and ed the word "fags" – a postmorn, ironic way of urse – to scribe a recent episo of the h US edy seri. But while the gratuo e of culturally-load words is fe for a be-sized bate on Twter, there is a much bigger problem that gay wrers don't discs: the whoppg headache of a tired gay cliché that Glee self embodi. Leavg asi the brilliance of Sue Sylvter, my own gay-Glee-gripe is wh Kurt Hummel, Ameri's poster boy for Fox-approved homosexualy wh his wholome goodns, a dazzlg Colgate se and a passn for Madge.
THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
Devised by Ryan Murphy, a gay wrer his forti, "Kurt" om The Sound of Mic's wi-eyed jailba Kurt Von Trapp, while "Hummel" pays homage to a eakish rosy-cheeked le of youthful figur that were popular Nazi Germany. Swap the lerhosen for hs of Gaga and you get the stock-gay sensatn that is Kurt Hummel. But what about the majory of gay men who aren't reprented on TV?
Gay teenagers mt gulp wh fear when they see Kurt, as he nf the closet-door wh a piano lid and mak beg gay look like a full-time job.
In seri one, Kurt relentlsly pursued his straight classmate Fn, a dangero storyle that rerced to a young dience that gay men are predatory, won't take no for an answer and will do anythg to sce any straight boy sight.
WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?
And Kurt seems to embody the ethos that gay kids mt prove themselv by excellg at somethg as if to jtify the tragedy of their sexualy. But unlike Kurt his life didn't revolve around fightg gay battl. The wrers of Sks foced stead on the stggl of Anwar, a Mlim boy who felt that his strict upbrgg ma difficult for him to get along wh gay pupils, spe them beg iendly towards him and a fellow mory the classroom.
You might say that any gay character that gets past the Fox filter is a triumph. It as no surprise that he has a vast gay followg – the webse AfterElton named Kurt the seventh bt gay character of all time. It's also a personal achievement for Colfer, wner of a Goln Globe, a lnaire, only 20 and openly gay.