While appearing at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, the (straight) ‘Glee’ star highlighted his love of queer culture: “It was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize.”
Criss launched into this topic after fielding a question about playing out-and-proud Blaine Anderson, boyfriend to Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel, on Glee —with the actors having portrayed a groundbreaking queer teenage couple on prime-time television. “It was fucking awesome,” said Criss. “Nowadays, we just call it a relationship on TV. But to contextualize it, a gay relationship on mainstream Fox, that’s a pretty cool thing to be a part of.
“I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy taking a gay man’s role,” said Criss at the time. He’s seemed to stick to that promise, having most recently appeared as the nerdy and straight Seymour in an off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, starring opposite Evan Rachel Wood. Criss attributed his appreciation for queer culture to growing up in San Francisco. “It was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from,” he said.
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