Jane Lynch on Beg a Gay Kid: 'It Was Almost Like I Had a Disease'

Contents:

• 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 -- MY GAY MARRIAGE IS OVER
• JANE LYNCH: I’M REALLY, REALLY GAY
• JANE LYNCH: 'WH GAY MARRIAGE IS GOG TO COME GAY DIVORCE'
• 'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE
• ‘GLEE’S’ JANE LYNCH: GAY ACTORS MIGHT NEVER LAND LEAD ROL HOLLYWOOD

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. I thought I was the only [gay] person the world, " she said. " Nohels, the Emmy Award-wng actrs says she's proud of the impact that "Glee" has had terms of openg doors for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) teen muny, even if the show's immense succs me as a b of a surprise to her and the rt of the st.

"I've never felt like the weakt lk Hollywood, and nor did I feel that way theater eher -- you know, we're jt teemg wh gays, " Lynch said. "I am aware of that -- that I n say, 'Hey, I'm a gay person! ' and then I get a job like this, which is really que wonrful and would not have happened 15 years ago, " Lynch though Lyn never me out, and Reilly didn't do so until late his reer, their obv queerns ma them a big draw to dienc, said Lynch, who named the "plethora of fun-lovg people who were edic" as among the reasons gay folks loved and ntue to love the genre of game shows.

“I’m an actor and when people started takg an tert me, where they wanted to wre about me, I didn’t say I wasn’t gay, so — I never had that, ” she ntued terview wh me on SiriXM Progrs. The executive producer is actor Sean Hay, the former “Will and Grace” star who himself me out as gay 2010. “There are still parts of the untry where ’s hard, when you realize you’re gay, ’s like a ath sentence, ” she said.

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

In a new web seri, It Got Better, Jane Lynch scribed her personal journey om closeted gay kid to highly visible gay celebry. I had a journal and … I remember I wrote, 'I am gay.

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

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JANE LYNCH -- MY GAY MARRIAGE IS OVER

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JANE LYNCH: I’M REALLY, REALLY GAY

And then, of urse, high school happens, and maybe even before that when you start to realise: ‘Oh my God, I may be gay but I don’t even have a word for . ’” She longed to be on stage but, rryg so much shame – she’d heard school iends talk about gay people wh disgt – she was also aaid of beg so visible.

The actrs, who portrayed manial cheerleadg ach Sue Sylvter on the show, is openly gay and married her long-time partner 2021. The character of Kurt Hummel, wrten for and portrayed by Chris Colfer, was not jt a riture of a gay teenager. She returned to Broadway 2022, appearg a revival of the mil Funny, who was openly gay, was active the gay rights movement.

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

What’s great about Hollywood s reprentatn of gay characters and trans characters is that fds s way to middle Ameri. A "Glee" would have ma me very you remember the first gay character or person you saw on TV?

'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE

I didn’t know Pl Lyn was gay, but I loved him. I didn’t have "gay" to attach to him, but I remember feelg a kship wh him on some ep level that I didn’t even know what was. “MR RATBURN IS GAY??

Your move Marvel…, ” wrote Rachel Gie, the director of edorial at is not the first time the “Arthur” seri has featured a gay character. ” The anizatn c “Steven Universe, ” “Adventure Time” and “Loud Hoe” as some recent exampl of programmg that featur nuanced LGBTQ, featurg a gay marriage on a children’s televisn show remas revolutnary, acrdg to year, the s-old discsn over Bert and Ernie’s relatnship and sexual orientatn “Same Street” me to a standstill after Frank Oz, the creator of Bert, nied the character was gay. I know what and who he is, " Oz wrote on Mark Saltzman, a former wrer for “Same Street, ” mataed that the puppets were gay.

‘GLEE’S’ JANE LYNCH: GAY ACTORS MIGHT NEVER LAND LEAD ROL HOLLYWOOD

“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said an terview wh Queerty.

Glee star Jane Lynch recently addrsed the hot-button topic of gay actors Hollywood facg discrimatn when to pursug the role of a romantic lead. Lynch’s statements e a few weeks after two openly gay actors, Richard Chamberla and Rupert Everett, addrsed the ntroversial stg issue seperate terviews, wh both lamentg that g out Hollywood profoundly affected their reers, pecially regardg landg romantic leadg man rol. “I wouldn’t advise a gay leadg man-type actor to e out, ” Chamberla told The Advote.