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

Contents:

• WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?
• THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
• 'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET
• CHRIS COLFER WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' PLAYG OPENLY GAY 'GLEE' ROLE KURT AS HE WASN'T YET OUT

WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?

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. 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. But what about the majory of gay men who aren't reprented on TV?

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

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.

And Kurt seems to embody the ethos that gay kids mt prove themselv by excellg at somethg as if to jtify the tragedy of their sexualy. But unlike Kurt his life didn't revolve around fightg gay battl.

The wrers of Sks foced stead on the stggl of Anwar, a Mlim boy who felt that his strict upbrgg ma difficult for him to get along wh gay pupils, spe them beg iendly towards him and a fellow mory the classroom.

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

You might say that any gay character that gets past the Fox filter is a triumph. It as no surprise that he has a vast gay followg – the webse AfterElton named Kurt the seventh bt gay character of all time. It's also a personal achievement for Colfer, wner of a Goln Globe, a lnaire, only 20 and openly gay.

He shar the red rpet wh gay men twice his age who never their award-stuffed reers dared to e out. Perhaps Kurt Hummel is jt the spoonful of sugar that Hollywood needs right now, but I n't wa for the day when we don't need the irratg tt-tube gay hero on TV.

CHRIS COLFER WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' PLAYG OPENLY GAY 'GLEE' ROLE KURT AS HE WASN'T YET OUT

How about a new seri lled Gloom, set Southend-on-Sea, which the gay protagonist is a kleptomaniac BMX biker who meets his teenage boyiend a young offenrs home after beg jailed for nng tourists? 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. LGBT stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr people rpectively..

"Glee" star Chris Colfer opened up about playg the openly gay character, Kurt, on a podst Thursday.