Jane Lynch On Her Early Stggl Wh Beg Gay And The LGBT Impact Of 'Glee' | HuffPost Voic

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• JANE LYNCH ON HER EARLY STGGL WH BEG GAY AND THE LGBT IMPACT OF 'GLEE'
• WEAKT LK'S JANE LYNCH EXPLAS WHY GAYS LOVE GAME SHOWS
• JANE LYNCH ON BEG A GAY KID: 'IT WAS ALMOST LIKE I HAD A DISEASE'
• JANE LYNCH: I’M REALLY, REALLY GAY
• JANE LYNCH -- MY GAY MARRIAGE IS OVER
• JANE LYNCH: 'WH GAY MARRIAGE IS GOG TO COME GAY DIVORCE'

JANE LYNCH ON HER EARLY STGGL WH BEG GAY AND THE LGBT IMPACT OF 'GLEE'

Skip to Ma Content"Glee" star Jane Lynch relled her early stggl wh sexualy a HuffPost Live terview this week, sayg that beg gay "felt like a disease" her early teen years.

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WEAKT LK'S JANE LYNCH EXPLAS WHY GAYS LOVE GAME SHOWS

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“There are still parts of the untry where ’s hard, when you realize you’re gay, ’s like a ath sentence, ” she said. In a new web seri, It Got Better, Jane Lynch scribed her personal journey om closeted gay kid to highly visible gay celebry.

JANE LYNCH ON BEG A GAY KID: 'IT WAS ALMOST LIKE I HAD A DISEASE'

I had a journal and … I remember I wrote, 'I am gay.

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JANE LYNCH: I’M REALLY, REALLY GAY

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JANE LYNCH -- MY GAY MARRIAGE IS OVER

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JANE LYNCH: 'WH GAY MARRIAGE IS GOG TO COME GAY DIVORCE'