Kurt Hummel is a popular gay character that broke through the Fox filter. But do his brand of Fox-approved homosexualy serve to rerce stereotyp?
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
- THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
WHICH GLEE CHARACTERS ARE GAY IN REAL LIFE?
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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.
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. "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.
'GLEE' STAR CHRIS COLFER SAYS HE WAS 'ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON THE SHOW BEE HE WASN'T OUT YET
And back then, people told their clients, 'Don't play gay characters bee will your reer, '" Colfer said. "Colfer's character had many storyl that centered around his experience as a gay high school stunt.
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 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.
THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
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.