Gay characters in glee
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Think of the combination “teenage-marketed television show” and “LGBT representation.” Did you, per chance, immediately reflect of a certain exhibit about singing teenagers? You wouldn’t be alone. For so long, Fox’s “Glee” was a major player in the game of LGBT representation among television shows for young people.
I’ve got to confess something before we continue: I was a MASSIVE Glee fangirl in my high college days.(17 year-old me at the Glee Live tour in 2011. With a massive Glee foam finger.
Which I still have.)
I had every piece of Glee merch I could get my hands on, posters in my locker and all over my bedroom. I had every single Glee CD released between 2009 and 2012. People knew me in high school as “that weird girl who loves Glee too much.” And, when cast member Cory Monteith tragically passed away from a drug overdose, I was texted by not one, not two, but SEVEN different people I knew asking if I was doing okay, because they knew how much the show meant to me.
Glee still runs through my veins. Despite the fact that I firmly believe the exhibition went downhill after the third season, I still cried at the series finale. Sue me.
Point is, I lived and
Darren Criss Says ‘I’ve Been So Culturally Queer My Whole Life’ and It Was a ‘F—ing Privilege’ to Participate a Gay Character on ‘Glee’
Darren Criss made headlines out of this year’s Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) for saying he’s “culturally queer” (via Entertainment Weekly). The 37-year-old actor gained fame for starring as Blaine Anderson on five seasons of the Fox musical comedy series “Glee.” Blaine was an openly queer character. Criss, who identifies as a straight, had no qualms about taking on the role and said it was “fucking awesome.”
“I contain been so culturally gender non-conforming my whole life,” Criss added. “Not because I’m trying — you recognize, actually, I was gonna say not because I’m trying to be chilly but I’m gonna erase that, because I am trying to be cool. The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from and be inspired by are 100% queer as fuck.”
Criss noted that “it was in homosexual communities that I’ve establish people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from. And
Bisexuality and Glee: Blaine
A lot of people seem unhappy with the portrayal of bi characters in Glee.
The characters that seem most often discussed are Santana, Brittany and Blaine. Only Brittany is played as bisexual person, but Santana certainly has been with both girls and boys and Blaine explores his attraction to Rachel in “Blame it on the Alcohol”.
The powers that be have said that Santana is a lesbian, out to herself, but still struggling with it, especially since she’s in love with Brittany who is dating Artie. Brittany appears to be attracted in more or less equal measure to girls and boys.
First, Blaine.
Blaine kissed Rachel during a drunken game of spin the bottle and was surprised by how much he enjoyed it. She asks him out and he accepts, which prompts a heated conversation between himself and openly lgbtq+ Kurt, who comes out with some biphobic arguments. Fortunately, Blaine manages to counter his arguments adequately, and the overall meaning of the scene — to me, anyway — is that Kurt’s arguments come off as coming from the fear that he won’t be competent to compete with Rachel (his usual nemesis) and from his own insecurit
Performing Glee: Gay Resistance to Gay Representations and a New Slumpy Class
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Glee‘s Flamboyant Queer Character, Kurt Hummel
It can be said with justified justification that because we are so programmed to be phobic of our own enduring stereotypes, we have become a generation of self-hating homos. See on any gay online dating website and you will see ad nauseum: “I am interested in masculine men” — “masc-only” — “no fems” — “I’m gay – I don’t want to date girls be masc.” These sorts of statements are typically followed by something appreciate , “I am str8 acting …”
Once I read a profile that went so far as to utter that the poster was straight, right before listing that he’s a bottom, likes twinks and … well … a rare other things I’m too shy to mention in a post my mom will probably read.
I accept this distaste for male flamboyance is what is happening when gay men tell me they despise Glee’s flamboyantly gay nature, Kurt Hummel, who can best be summed up by his response to the question, Is that a men’s sweater? (It’s not.) Kurt says, “Fashion has no gender.”1
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