hollywood
by tim parks
ARE You
SHouTING
ouT WITH
Glee?
My, how high school seems to have changed in the past five years since I graduated. I don’t seem to recall anyone bursting
into songs during my days with the Class of ’87, umm, I mean Class of ’04—Is that right? I’m carrying the two and it’s heavy! Kids nowa-
days seem more apt to express their feelings via singing than in any other time in recorded history, barring the recent High School Musical era. The
cast of Glee, including teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), make it look like it would be fun to load up a flame retardant backpack with a hot
pink Trapper Keeper and head back to high school. Sigh, if only choreography was considered a viable substitute for taking P.E. Thankfully, we can
live vicariously in the world that Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuk have created, in which diversity reigns Diana Ross and The Supremes, as
the hit show straddles musical decades and genres like a bowlegged cowboy! It’s so easy to say that we gays like the Fox series because of the musical
comedy element. Gurl, that is so clichéd—it’s obviously because of the underdog component, and no, that is not some new Kama Sutra position for
bottoms! It means overcoming adversity, like the Glee participants face in their quest to make it to regionals. So, let’s put this must-see show under
the microscope, like we were in biology class, and see what its insides are made of and which we can eviscerate.
Tuned In And Tie-Ins ing squad called the “Cheerios” (Huh? What does cereal have to do with cheer…
I would imagine that Glee probably has the highest GPA (Gays Per Audience) never mind, got it!) led by the always great Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester. An openly
of any new show this season. So, I am really nonplussed when I inquire of friends gay actress playing a gym teacher…hmm, that’s queer! But the gay quotient isn’t
(not the imaginary kind!) if they are watching it, and they answer with a no! The subscribed to having a talented lesbian thespian castmember.
show has more gay written all over it than a tagger on the DL, who spray paints Female lead Rachel (Lea Michele) has two daddies, while gay character Kurt
with a limp spaghetti noodle wrist and has a flair for bedazzled bandanas! Hummel (Chris Colfer) taught the football team that dancing to Beyoncé’s “Single
Who wouldn’t want to be a senior (citizen in my case) at William McKinley High Ladies” during a big game is the way to score points with them heterosexuals! It
School, even if it is by proxy? certainly seems to work for the singer, as she has used some variation of the moves
You have jocks who want to belt out Neil Diamond songs (they get points for in each of her subsequent videos released off Sasha Fierce. Plus, there’s enough
trying), faux pregnancies mixed with ’fo real ones, a Bring It On-esque cheerlead- plots surrounding love of both the requited and unrequited variety between
28 RAGE monthly | December 2009
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