Glee gay
I had no concept what the pos “gay” meant until I saw the third episode of Glee, the 2009 Fox series about show choir and teen drama, which has since get the source of some of the most heinous jokes, storylines and covers in television history.
In this episode, Kurt, a flamboyant, fashion-obsessed high school scholar, shoots down his friend Mercedes’s confession that she has feelings for him. He tells her he likes another girl, so, naturally, she throws a rock through the windshield of his car while singing Jazmine Sullivan’s “Bust Your Windows.” They have a falling out, but he later admits that this was a lie to cover for the truth that he’s queer , and the two make up.
Most already knew the concrete reason Kurt wasn’t into Mercedes since anyone who understood the stereotypes related with being queer would instantly clock Kurt’s lie.
But I didn’t.
Kurt and I shared this monumental moment — it was the first time the ethics had ever common this part of himself with another person, and it was also the first time I learned that existence gay existed.
No one had ever explained Queerness to me, so I fumbled through teaching myself what it meant as the demonstrate went on. It hadn’t occurred
In Its Final Season, Glee Was the Gayest Show That’s Ever Been on Television
I have a totally untestable theory that Glee did more to normalize homosexuality than any other show in TV history, perhaps more than any other mainstream work of art. Over six seasons, tweens, teens, and their families sat in living rooms around the world watching musical numbers, present choir competitions, and hormonal high-school drama stacked with more than its fair share of comings out, same-sex crushes, and gender noncomformity.
But the final season, which comes to an end Friday night with a two-hour episode, is the gayest thing I’ve ever seen on television—and ever expect to see. The TV version of Lima, Ohio, is a fantasy world where sexual minorities rule the roost and heterosexuals are background players, coming into focus only when they interact with queer characters.
Just one opposite-sex couple took up significant screen time this season: Becky Jackson and Darrell, the steamy barista boyfriend Sue’s former sidekick brought home from college. But Becky and Darrell’s relationship was mostly an excuse for the rest of the cast to freak out about the principles of a romantic relationship between
{Pride}: The Dominant of Glee-ful Representation in Television
When I reflect of Pride Month, I think of many things: The need for same rights for people who identify as LGBTQ+. The progress that comes from taking a month to recognize those who contain for so long been kept in the shadows. And the way pop culture, in my belief, has helped to change the tide toward acceptance .
I realize that correlation does not mean causation. But, if it’s real that reading boosts empathy, then creating and presenting the stories and characters who are LGBTQ+ in our visual media should be no different. When people only associate a certain group with the hateful rhetoric surrounding them, it can be rigid to see them for anything beyond the labels and fears that acquire been plastered on them.
Exposure to stories and characters, both real and imagined, has the power to supersede those narratives.
The entertainment that most stands out to me for helping change the narrative around LGBTQ+ characters is the 2010s’ musical dramedy Glee. Now, Glee was a flawed show. It did not handle every issue with tact, there were performances that may own been better left undone, and some scenes were—
Performing Glee: Homosexual Resistance to Lgbtq+ Representations and a New Slumpy Class
Taylor Cole Miller / FLOW Senior Editor
Glee‘s Flamboyant Male lover Character, Kurt Hummel
It can be said with reasonable justification that because we are so programmed to be phobic of our retain enduring stereotypes, we have become a generation of self-hating homos. Look on any gay matchmaking app website and you will see ad nauseum: “I am interested in masculine men” — “masc-only” — “no fems” — “I’m lgbtq+ – I don’t want to go out girls be masc.” These sorts of statements are typically followed by something like, “I am str8 acting …”
Once I read a profile that went so far as to say that the poster was straight, right before listing that he’s a bottom, likes twinks and … well … a few other things I’m too introverted to mention in a post my mom will probably read.
I believe this distaste for male flamboyance is what is happening when gay men narrate me they dislike Glee’s flamboyantly same-sex attracted character, Kurt Hummel, who can foremost be summed up by his response to the ask, Is that a men’s sweater? (It’s not.) Kurt says, “Fashion has no gender.”1
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