Chris Colfer Bought Dying Threats Whereas Appearing On Glee
In fact, in case you’re a correct Gleek, you understand Glee star Chris Colfer, who performed the brazenly homosexual character Kurt Hummel.
Glee started airing in 2009, in a cultural local weather that was arguably much more hostile in the direction of homosexual folks than it’s now — and through a current look on YouTube’s Books That Modified My Life collection, Chris obtained actual in regards to the struggles he confronted with newfound fame.
“I cherished pretending…I cherished creating different folks, creating characters,” he mentioned. “I cherished storytelling. I by no means in one million years thought that fame would have any a part of my profession in any respect… It obtained actually scary actually quick.”
” I used to be enjoying an brazenly homosexual teenager at a time when folks didn’t like seeing brazenly homosexual youngsters on tv… It was not welcome. And the loss of life threats and the safety dangers began nearly instantly. I grew to become very agoraphobic.”
Chris went on to say that the extent of scrutiny and hate he confronted on the time appears unthinkable in at this time’s local weather — nevertheless it actually did occur. “It’s laborious to clarify now as a result of the world has modified for the higher a lot that generally folks don’t actually consider me… nevertheless it was not okay to be homosexual again then, within the early 2000s,” he mentioned.
“Late night time speak present hosts would take cracks at me, and it was completely superb as a result of I used to be the homosexual child. Politicians would say issues about me publicly, completely superb as a result of I used to be the homosexual child. Pastors of mega church buildings would name me the anti-Christ, and it was completely accepted, as a result of I used to be the homosexual child. There was nobody defending me. There was nobody coming to my rescue.”
“Once I would speak about it with folks, they’d say, ‘Effectively, what do you anticipate? You’re the homosexual child on Glee. That is simply what’s going to occur.'”
