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
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- 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?
CHRIS COLFER WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' PLAYG OPENLY GAY 'GLEE' ROLE KURT AS HE WASN'T YET OUT
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The mil edy-drama Glee was not only known for featurg artists like Ida Menzel, was also one of the first popular work shows that featured entire storyl around Kurt's stggl as a gay person livg wh a homophobic environment. One night, after the game is over, Kurt and Burt return home where Kurt tells his father “I’m gay. Glee’s creator Ryan Murphy, himself a gay man, ed his own personal experienc g out to his father as spiratn for the scene.
THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
He clarified an terview (via LA Tim) that gay characters so rarely get happy endgs, and even more rarely are their sexuali treated wh digny. He poted out that was jt as important (if not more important) to see gay characters happy and thrivg, pecially sce the LGBTQ+ muny has suffered so much persecutn and misery.
At the time of Glee's release, gay marriage was not yet legal and the reprentatn of gay characters on televisn was strikgly small.