Why is Glee So Gay?

TheCollegeConservative ^ | 02/21/2012 | Tanner Salyers

[gabriellah]

Okay, so I’m a sucker for show tunes and glam rock.

Yes, I enjoy the amazing talent of Idina Menzel in the Broadway hit “Wicked.” Absolutely, I am left awestruck after hearing the wonderful scores of Claude-Michel Schönberg in “Les Mis.” And let’s not even dispute the fact that Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, along with the rest of the folks in Fleetwood Mac are actually seraphim sent from the very throne of God to give us the eleventh commandment, which is “don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.”

If all of that makes me less of a man, then men need to do some serious introspecting.

So when Glee, the show that perfectly captures what it is like to go to high school in the Midwest (on another planet) hit the airwaves, 12 year old girls swooned, high school Glee Club members rejoiced, and music fans like me now had to try to figure out how we could get away from our friends for an hour a week, with the doors locked and the blinds pulled, to indulge in a little “show tunage” without them really knowing we were watching Glee.

[apillar]

ABC's The Middle, with the gay friend of the daughter, Modern Family with the gay couple with an adopted child, and Happy Endings with the gay friend in the main cast group all are either subtley or directly pushing the "gay is normal" agenda. I have been reflecting on my watching habits since. It is very easy to become the frog in the slowly heated pot.

That's another thing that bugs me, how every show HAS to have a gay character now, even if it doesn't really fit the premise of the show. I'm 38 years old, through my college years, my job and personal life, I can only think of three openly gay individuals I have known (although there are a handful more I suspect may have been "in the closet" or at least did feel the need to scream their sexuality from the rafters). But, still that's only 1% or 2% of the friends, coworkers, relatives and acquaintances I have had over the years. Yet, If you just arrived here from another planet and turned on the TV, you would think that gays make up at least 30% of the population.

[Flycatcher]

A better question is why do we call homosexuals “Gay”? Wouldn’t they be better described as “angries”?

The word "queer" -- in all its meanings -- seems applicable.

But they seem to welcome that word now.

I could go with "derangedconfusednarcissisticmiserableselfloathingsinners" but it's a little unwieldy...

[x]

The show's creator, Ryan Murphy, the guy who created Nip Tuck and An American Horror Story is gay. So is Jane Lynch. And more than one of the teenagers most likely is too. And the kid in the wheelchair -- can walk! What's up with that?

[Colonel_Flagg]

And let’s not even dispute the fact that Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, along with the rest of the folks in Fleetwood Mac are actually seraphim sent from the very throne of God

One might postulate that "seraphim sent from the very throne of God" would actually be able to sing. Which Stevie Nicks can't.

[Colonel_Flagg]

And the kid in the wheelchair -- can walk! What's up with that?

As a young boy, I wondered for years if Raymond Burr could walk after watching him on "Ironside". Seeing him reprise Perry Mason was therefore a real surprise for me.

[G Larry]

Recruiting for the 2% who don’t have enough victims.

[aruanan]

One might postulate that "seraphim sent from the very throne of God" would actually be able to sing. Which Stevie Nicks can't.

You mean she bleats like a goat?

[dragonblustar]

The blonde cheerleader on the show is H-O-T-T.

Was that a male of female cheerleader...... ( just saying.)

[freedomlover]

“You don’t have to be gay to enjoy show tunes.”

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But it helps.

[Ransomed]

I wouldn’t watch glee even if the homosexualist content was 0%—I mean what man is thinking “Gee, I would really be into this great teen show about musical dance numbers if it only had less gayness...”

Freegards

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Ward always felt uncomfortable about Walter running around with that Haskell kid.”

‘WARD!!! There’s something wrong with the Beaver.” /sorry, had to do it.

[Disambiguator]

And the kid in the wheelchair -- can walk! What's up with that?

It's an homage to "Dr. Strangelove."

[Perdogg]

[Fast Moving Angel]

But you do have to be gay to watch "Glee."

Yup, that, and "Big Bang Theory". GAG.

[GSWarrior]

Glee is not so much a TV show as it is a franchise aimed at the High School Musical crowd. There have already been touring Glee shows. I expect to see Glee on Ice in the near future.

That many gays find it attractive is more of a commentary on the shallowness that exists in that world, IMO.

[freedomlover]

In the dark confines of the 3 AM fits of sleeplessness he now found familiar, Ward wondered if he had been a bit hard on the Beaver earlier that day.

[buffaloguy]

I agree with your sentiment. I love musicals and wish they would make a comeback.

But I am hetero...let’s put it this way “Mickey D’s is not the only one with the motto ‘Billions Served’”

I love theater and musicals and did a lot of it in my early years and I still miss it. Ocasionally I get the chance to do a production at church and I always jump on it. Last one was an opera based on Revelation. Outstanding.

[Cronos]

‘friends’ started it... with the acceptance of lesbian characters etc.

[Lancey Howard]

Ward always felt uncomfortable about Walter running around with that Haskell kid.

Actually, "Wally" came from Wallace.
"Good morning Mrs. Cleaver. Is Wallace at home?"

[Antoninus]

It is very easy to become the frog in the slowly heated pot.

That's exactly what all this is about. Getting more and more people to publicly declare that it's perfectly normal for two guys who routinely sodomize each other to be considered the moral equivalent of husband and wife--and worse, that we should hand over orphaned children to them.