Chris Colfer Was 'Absolutely Terrified' Playg Openly Gay Glee Role

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

"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.

THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?

McHale, 34, who also me out as gay 2018, asked Colfer if bothers him that they wrote a gay character specifilly for him.

WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?

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.