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Performing Glee: Gay Resistance to Gay Representations and a New Slumpy Class
Taylor Cole Miller / FLOW Senior Editor
Glee‘s Flamboyant Homosexual 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. Glance 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 love, “I am str8 acting …”
Once I read a profile that went so far as to tell 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 trust this distaste for male flamboyance is what is happening when gay men tell me they loathe 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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Think of the combination “teenage-marketed television show” and “LGBT representation.” Did you, per chance, immediately believe 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 academy 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 present went downhill after the third season, I still cried at the series finale. Sue me.
Point is, I lived and
Glee's Pioneering Praise Always Ignored 1 Major Problem
The reveal Glee changed the game for LGBTQ+ representation in media, however, the display was far from matchless. At the time of its release in 2009, representation of queer characters were few and far between on television, especially queer characters featured in the show’s main cast. Glee is still considered one of the best Queer shows currently streaming on Hulu. Glee presented several compassionate coming-out stories through the characters of Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) and Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera), and these stories helped create LGBTQ+ characters more commonplace in media. However, despite Glee’s important contributions to LGBTQ+ representation in television, there were some sexualities that were not represented quite as well as others on the show.
Glee was a musical comedy/drama that ran for six seasons on the FOX network from 2009 to 2015. Glee featured a cast of young and talented newcomers who were all members of the McKinley High School Glee club, known as "New Directions". When Glee wasn’t focused on show choir competitions, it was focused on teens’ struggles with romance and identity. For example, K
{Pride}: The Powerful 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 have for so long been kept in the shadows. And the way pop tradition, in my perspective, has helped to turn the tide toward acceptance .
I realize that correlation does not express causation. But, if it’s true 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 challenging to see them for anything beyond the labels and fears that hold been plastered on them.
Exposure to stories and characters, both real and imagined, has the authority to supersede those narratives.
The show that most stands out to me for helping change the narrative around Gay 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—and are—
Analysis of Glee’s Kurt Hummel and Dave Karofsky
M. Carolina Martinez
The hit television display, Glee, premiered in May 2009 on Fox to more than 9.6 million viewers. Throughout the course of its six-season run from 2009-2015, Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, the show’s creators and executive producers, introduced its audience to many LGBTQ characters. The two I will focus on are Kurt Hummel, played by Chris Colfer, who is represented as a feminine-gay high schooler, and Dave Karofsky, played by Max Adler, who is represented as an internalized homophobic, who eventually accepts his sexuality. I chose these two characters to analyze because I enjoyed watching their growth throughout the series and was always fascinated by their dynamic with each other.Introductions to Kurt and Dave
At the very first stage of the series, Hummel is depicted as a closeted-gay high schooler, who has never told anyone about his sexuality. He first reveals that he is gay to his friend Mercedes, and only because she tells him that she likes him. His sexuality was quite apparent to everyone else, as he is represented as the fem