Glee Alum Kev McHale Com Out as Gay

Contents:

• WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?
• 'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET
• 'GLEE' ALUM KEV MCHALE CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'I THK THERE WAS ZERO SURPRISE'
• WATCH: GLEE TAK ON TWO OF WHNEY HOTON’S GAYT ANTHEMS
• IN ITS FAL SEASON, GLEE WAS THE GAYT SHOW THAT’S EVER BEEN ON TELEVISN
• THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
• 'GAY' GLEE CHARACTERS ARE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT!
• A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?

LGBT stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr people rpectively.. Standout Quote: "Odds are by the end of the school year, I'll have Blae and a Natnals trophy, and you'll have khakis and a Lima Bean apron, and that gay face.

Not only did he fy tradnal gay stereotyp by beg a football team ultra-jock, but Spencer was pletely shamels about his inty. Kurt is the first gay character to e out season one of Glee, and is badly bullied for . However, Dave later reveals he is gay after tryg to kiss Kurt season two.

"Glee" star Chris Colfer opened up about playg the openly gay character, Kurt, on a podst Thursday. "Glee" actor Chris Colfer, 32, opened up about his fear of playg an openly gay character on the h Fox seri durg Thursday's episo of the "And That's What You Really Missed", who portrayed a character named Kurt on the show om 2009 to 2015, shared that he was "absolutely terrified" bee he hadn't e out yet. And back then, people told their clients, 'Don't play gay characters bee will your reer, '" Colfer said.

'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET

"Colfer's character had many storyl that centered around his experience as a gay high school stunt.

"#NoTearsLeftToCry is gayer than me and I ACCEPT, " Kev McHale tweeted.

Kev McHale is openg up about his sexual orientatn — weeks after sparkg speculatn about beg gay when he posted a photo of himself cuddlg up to actor At McKenzie.

'GLEE' ALUM KEV MCHALE CONFIRMS HE'S GAY: 'I THK THERE WAS ZERO SURPRISE'

In April, McHale tweeted his praise for Ariana Gran‘s new sgle, “No Tears Left to Cry, ” when the Glee alum seemgly appeared to e out as gay.

“#NoTearsLeftToCry is gayer than me and I ACCEPT, ” he wrote. A lot of Whney Hoton’s songs were gay fav, but “It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay” took on a life of s own on the gay-club scene. So ’s ftg that Glee, s all-Whney tribute Monday night, gave this number to Darren Criss’ gay character, Blae.

Few people the dtry st as much queer talent as Murphy do, and even fewer st as much hot queer honor of Murphy and his love for sexy queer men, here are 20 of the hottt gay, bi, trans, and queer men he's st over the years! Super Gay Warbler. Other Really Gay Warbler.

WATCH: GLEE TAK ON TWO OF WHNEY HOTON’S GAYT ANTHEMS

Alpha Gay. Gay Bar Dancer.

Gayle Kate...

Greg Gayne... I have a totally unttable theory that Glee did more to normalize homosexualy than any other show TV history, perhaps more than any other mastream work of art.

IN ITS FAL SEASON, GLEE WAS THE GAYT SHOW THAT’S EVER BEEN ON TELEVISN

But the fal season, which to an end Friday night wh a two-hour episo, is the gayt thg I’ve ever seen on televisn—and ever expect to see.

Of urse, the fal cls of that last sentence pot to the biggt problem wh treatg the world of Glee as a mol post-homophobic society: It often mak no sense. But unlike Sue, who rorted to subterfuge orr to achieve her goal of brgg Kurt and Blae back together, the wrers stated the show’s pro-gay agenda que explicly: In Episo 6, when Brtany S. Pierce still hop that Santana Lopez’s grandmother will get over her homophobia and attend their weddg, she tells her fiancee:.

Spencer Porter, a football-playg “postmorn gay” new to the show this season, explas to Rachel that “posive reprentatns of gays the mass media have given me the nfince I need to be myself, which, turns out, is kd of an arrogant jerk. ” Even Coach Beiste, who me out as trans this season, beme a gay man.

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

“The New York Tim says half the crease support for gay marriage is due to generatnal turnover. Ten years ago, two gay men me out of the closet. Both of , bee of this, felt that our bt years were to e, beyond the heteronormative nf of high by Chris Colfer, Kurt was both flawed and funny – whout his gayns beg the butt of every joke.

The populary of a show as gay as Glee might not seem revolutnary now, but is worth rememberg that when first aired 2009, jt 36 per cent of Amerins even supported same-sex marriage. It seamlsly blend gay narrativ to a popular, mastream show and even had the guts to st a gay actor (Colfer) a gay role. A on, this is still prsgly rare, so much so that Criss – who later starred as gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan Murphy’s The Assassatn of Gianni Versace – has pledged to stop playg LGBT+ characters to give more gay actors a most culture created by queer people, Glee rarely gets the cred serv for fluencg the mastream.

'GAY' GLEE CHARACTERS ARE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT!

For young people – gay, straight and everythg between – might have been the first time they saw a lovg gay romance on screen. 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.

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.

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

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.