Kurt Coba's 1993 Advote Cover Story: 'I'm Gay Spir'

Contents:

• WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?
• HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI
• KURT COBA'S 1993 ADVOTE COVER STORY: 'I'M GAY SPIR'
• ‘GLEE’ STAR KEV MCHALE COM OUT AS GAY, CREDS ARIANA GRAN’S NEW SONG

WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?

Jonathan Groff is openly gay. Darren Criss as Blae AnrsonThis actor played a gay man the show, though he is straight and married real life. The uple is yet to start a and Grant dated for jt over a year before they cid to spend the rt of their liv together, and although fairly private about their personal liv, the pair often share adorable pictur on social Colfer as Kurt HummelChris Colfer is openly gay and currently a relatnship wh his longtime partner, Will Sherrod.

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HOW ‘FEAR STREET’ BEME QUEER STREET: THE SUPER GAY MOVIE EVOLUTN OF R.L. STE’S FAMED SERI

Even though Mattel nied that he was signed wh gay men md, he was one of the few mastream toys at the time that stck a chord wh LGBTQ nsumers.

It's no wonr that fans latched on to Glee's first official gay male uple. He starts off as a homophobic bully who then morphs to someone who is secretly gay and homophobia as a fense mechanism.

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KURT COBA'S 1993 ADVOTE COVER STORY: 'I'M GAY SPIR'

That hasn’t stopped fans, as Graziai not, om talogg “all the homoerotic unrton of each book” for years. That “Fear Street” go beyond jt gay vib was one of the most excg parts of starrg the summer mp-set “Part Two: 1978” for non-bary actor Ryan Simpks, who they/them pronouns. Even though the script didn’t intify Simpks’ Alice character as gay, they believed om the onset that she was.

They were not wrong: “(Leigh and Ey) were like, ‘100 percent, Alice and Cdy are gay. 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.

‘GLEE’ STAR KEV MCHALE COM OUT AS GAY, CREDS ARIANA GRAN’S NEW SONG

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.

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.

Origally, Colfer dned for the role of Artie, but after dng Ryan Fuller realized Colfer was the perfect actor to break through gay stereotyp on televisn. While Glee may have promoted many harmful stereotyp throughout s n, s pictn of Kurt g out to his father was a rehg change of pace pared to how gay characters were treated the past on televisn.