Why is Glee So Gay?
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.
It started out being all-encompassing, with every stereotype imaginable. There was the dorky kid in the wheelchair, the heavy-set black girl, the all-around good boy white guy, the goody-two-shoes Jewish girl (a tinge of anti-Semitism seething through there? We shall see.), the saucy Latina cheerleader accompanied by the dumb blonde cheerleader and, of course, the gay guy. Now statistically, and let’s face it, realistically, this is a pretty accurate spread of high school; you know, that time before we all had to actually take care of ourselves and when we somewhat cared about what other people thought, the good old days.
And it may make me unpopular, but here it is, I’m not afraid to say it. I, being a religious, conservative, Republican male from southern Ohio, liked Glee.
But then, as time went on, the show kept progressively getting more satirical of traditional values. One example is the celibate guidance counselor, who thought “afternoon delight” was nothing more than nice early evening snack, or the fact that there are now a bunch of judgmental “Christian Zealots” walking around on the show calling themselves the “God Squad” that also adopted a very new age version of Christianity.
And you know, that didn’t bother me as much as it should have at first, but for the sake of humor, I let it slide, as Christians and conservatives do entirely too often. Then we had the case of the football-playing bully picking on the gay kid, which turned out to be the bully’s own homosexual tension coming out on full display, when in one episode he traps the gay kid in the locker room and plants a big ol’ smooch on him.
Okay, so after that, the original gay kid, Kurt, transfers to a private all-boys school, where he is surrounded by, you guessed it, more gay men in a Glee club.
That’s when I quit watching. I’m not intolerant, I’m not a bigot, I’m not a homophobe, although I’m sure some bleeding heart will be quick to paint me as one. I still listened to the music online, which I continue to enjoy very much even to this day. I simply got tired of seeing a liberal homosexual agenda paraded around, mocking religion and traditional American values, and promoting these things to the nation’s youth. So I quit watching, I got my younger sister to quit watching, and some friends to quit watching – a silent revolt for the sake of the nuclear family and Judeo-Christian values.
Turns out, since I’ve quit watching, the homosexual level has gone from about a “pretty gay” 7 to a “fabulous” 10.
Adding to the homosexual couples, we have Kurt and his partner, the two aforementioned cheerleaders are now a lesbian couple, apparently the confused football playing bully came back for the Valentine’s Day episode and is preparing to come out of the metaphorical closet, the Jewish girl has two dads, and the show’s cheerleading coach/antagonist is played by none other than Jane Lynch, a hilarious actress, as well as a lesbian PETA activist.
When does it end? When do we stop masquerading homosexuality around and drawing out a conversation that doesn’t need happen? Why is it okay for a show to openly blast Christian high school students and those who still stand by the good old-fashioned moral behaviors that have served this country well thus far? It begs the question, why are we allowing raging liberal thought and pop culture’s secularist ideologies to be mixed up nicely and spoon fed to our children, without even as much as a second thought?
And to the creators of Glee, enough already! We get it! I just want to watch Lea Michele without being force-fed Gay Pride propaganda…
As the internet memes would say, Glee Y U SO GAY!
Tanner Salyers :: Shawnee State University :: Portsmouth, Ohio :: @TannerSalyers
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Thanks for echoing exactly my thoughts!! They started off just ok but as the show gained popularity, it got to the point where now they can spout out whatever they want tans the younger generation just eats it all up!
If you’re supposed to emulate Jesus’ ideals, then I don’t see why you can’t shake the proverbial dust off your feet and leave the show to its own devices? If you feel this strongly about what the show is allegedly preaching, then you can continue to not watch it and not give it the publicity this will likely draw in terms of criticism, not unlike people giving Westboro Baptist Church the attention it so clearly craves.
No one’s saying you don’t have a potential justification for being offended, but that offense might be a tad hyper sensitive to a show that was not written for everyone in mind. The fact that they portray the majority of, though possibly not all, Christians as stereotyped does not mean there is necessarily an agenda against Christianity as a whole. It’s kind of backwards when any Christian, from the Catholic League to the Family Affairs Council, claims they are being persecuted or prejudiced against when they are in the demographic majority and are hardly in a state to be victimized, unlike in other countries where they are an obvious minority.
If you want to promote Christian values on TV, hire Christian writers. The free market of ideas is hardly in conflict with conservatism or classical liberalism. You may strongly disagree with such things, but that should motivate you to do something about it instead of being pouty and morally indignant over a television show’s portrayal of you that is well known to be a stereotype and may even have a hint of satire to goad you into reacting like this, predictably so.
Why is Glee “gay”? It’s being satirical of gay/queer culture as much as it is of Christian culture in America. Not everyone in the show is gay, which is more than one can say for the stereotypes of glee club that seem to exist. They’re poking fun at themselves as much as they are of you, from what little I understand of the show. Gay tolerance won’t kill you. No one’s asking you to give them your blessing in any sense, just don’t victimize them as some demonic enemy.
Umm there wasn’t a single word in the post about Gays being some form of demonic enemy.
Jared Cowan said, victimize them as some demonic enemy. That means, as something bad. But i can see you have some problems with taking things literally. The bible for instance..
Like a comedian once said: you religious people all think you have a monopoly on the truth.
Gays are just people like you and me. 10% of all nature is probably not male or female, but something like hermafrodite or lesbian.
There is something like the biological categorisation of sexe and the cultural one; gender. Gender is the interpretation of sexes by society. Our society says that there is a dichotomy; whats man, connot be woman and visa versa. They shape a norm.
But because society decides how to interpreted the bible or a sexe, doenst mean it is true or that the bible is as valueble as they say.
I think its strange that people who study still have a religion. I think that accounts for bad universitys in America, cause all over the world people shake off their religion when they have more knowledge about the world.
Maybe thats the reason the Christian Bob Jones University has a policy on contact with the outside world. So that their students do not get to form their own opinion, cause theyre never faced with conflicting ideas.
I hope they get the social and mental freedom one day to make their own decision.
Greetings
solid article…would have helped to include the fact that the show’s creator is gay and had a successful run with Nip/Tuck, which played with themes of homosexuality & androgyny.
brings out some good points; the media gives you an innocent enough show about a glee club, and suddenly, everyone and everything that sticks to any sort of morality or values system is the bad guy, and the way to end it is to be “shocking” and “daring” enough to smother the exact opposite of that values system in everyone’s face.
kind of like feminism: they weren’t after equal treatment, it was a passive-aggressive way of doing to men what men had done to women (only in a biologically correct role) for so long, or so they felt.
In October 2011, it was announced that Murphy, along with Glee co-executive producer Ali Adler, would be co-creating a new half-hour comedy pilot that “centers on a gay couple and the surrogate who will carry their child”. According to Entertainment Weekly, there was a bidding war between ABC, NBC, and FOX for the project, with the show going to NBC.[9] The announcement that NBC had officially ordered a pilot episode for the series, titled “The New Normal”
from Wikipedia on Ryan Murphy.
There ya go. “The New Normal”.
Guess “normal” isn’t like me, a 31 year old dinosaur with (soon to be) two kids and a wife who is plenty intelligent but actually *wants* to raise her kids instead of paying a day care to do it for us.
Her kids? I guess since you work, you don’t want to raise your kids?
He’s doing the right thing.
I absolutely love this article. It makes me feel good that I’m not the only one who thinks like this. I’m not a regular watcher of Glee, but I have seen a few episodes. I happened to see the Valentine’s Day episode the other day and was appalled by what I saw. Thank you, Tanner, for stepping up and saying what needs to be said.
Considering that virtually every single show on television centers around the man and women traditional family, I think it is a BIT of a stretch to call one show that features gay couples more than average “liberal homosexual agenda.” While I can’t say your decision to not watch the show because of the gay couples is wrong, I do find it a bit…strange coming from a college conservative. I do not see what is wrong with personally deciding to uphold Judeo-Christian values while your neighbor doesn’t. I thought that the conservative stance is that gay marriage is between a man and a women, not that gay people can’t have feelings for each other.
I think hating “pro-gay” message in Glee means you are completely missing the point of what Glee is all about. Glee is about acceptance and understanding that there are people that are different than you, not closing your mind and discrediting something because it holds different values.
It is so gay because the producers have a huge audience, and they have a huge agenda to sell gay marriage.
Their audience is mostly high school kids (and mostly high school girls) and younger.
If they can convince these minds full of mush that there is nothing wrong with gay marriage, then these kids (whom I would be watch this show without their parents providing any balance), when they are old enough to vote, will be more than happy to choose their life-lessons from fiction, rather than the real world, their parents’ beliefs, and the teachings of their religion (if they have one).
Gay marriage is legal in seven states ONLY BECAUSE it was made law by either a liberal state legislature OR activist judges in a state supreme court.
It has been on the ballot in more than 30 states (California twice!) and EVERY SINGLE TIME THE PUBLIC HAS VOTED, it has been voted down. EVERY SINGLE TIME!
Doesn’t that tell you something?
Gay marriage can only pass as long as a very few people make the decision for the masses.
It would never pass in a Constitutional Amendment situation, so they have to continue to poison the minds of young kids with this crap, so that some day, when these brainwashed voters grow up, they’ll get their wish.
I’ed like to point out that human rights aren’t meant to be dependent on public opinion. It says nothing. The public opinion on gay’s is ever rising, and among teens, its at the point of acceptance now (depending on where you live, but where I do, yeah). Could you explain the difference between brainwashing and education? To me, brainwashing is forced upon you and conflicts with your thoughts. Education allows you to see new information, and alter your beliefs accordingly with it. I think this aligns more with the second one- sorry for cutting out your connotation.
Maaaaaaybe i have a somewhat different viewpoint here, what with being from England and all, but heres my two cents. Just got back from a night shift so i apologise for the lack of eloquence.
One thing i can’t help but wonder, right, apparently 10% of people are meant to be gay or bisexual. But, out of all the couples you see on TV, how many are gay? I’d hardly say its anywhere close to representing what are apparently the true figures.
Don’t get me wrong, im straight, and i get uncomfortable when guy on guy scenes are a little too graphic (try watching Torchwood sometime if that kinda stuff gets under your skin), but maybe the homosexual community wouldn’t mind a nod or two in their direction?
Also theres the fact that, i don’t know how things are in the USA, but over here, the vast majority of males who like showtunes are gay. I’m one of the rare few red blooded straight ones (something enchanting about Lea Michelle isnt there?), so showing Glee clubs as very estrogen dominated enviroments seems kinda… accurate.
I’m rambling so i’ll leave while i still can
God thank you, I agree with everything you wrote. There’s nothing wrong with homosexuality on television, Glee is just absolutely overboard with it. It shoves gay propaganda down our throats as if we didn’t get it the first time. WE GET IT. GAY PEOPLE ARE GAY.
Seriously. I’m so pissed that that this show about showtunes and a glee club is overly dramatic and over-the-top in general. I want it to just chill out and be more like C-SPAN.
Good article. Not interested in seeing dudes together; it’s gross.
Next up: lets keep those gross fatties off the show!
Thats really insulting. Maybe you should be a litter nicer, kay?
Heres all the different agendas i could find on Glee:
- The Downs syndromed agenda
- The Asian agenda
- The Homosexual (Not counting lesbians of course) agenda
- The Straight agenda
- Anti abortion agenda
- Pro/Anti Drug agenda
- Anti bullying (unless if it comes from Sue Sylvester) agenda
- Vegetarian agenda
- Anti sex tape agenda
- Atheist agenda
- Christian agenda
- Anti Semitic agenda
- Wheelchair agenda
- Pro rape agenda
- Anti Sarah Palin agenda
- Anti stripper agenda
- Pro jock/cheerleader/Glee clubber agenda
- Feminist Agenda
- Adoptions, showtunes and safe school environments-for-all liberal crap
Think of the Children!
Oh yes and are all those things not awefully bad? I mean imagine, people loving other people for who they are and accepting them.
Imagine.. how it would be if a woman would be your smarter and more succesful boss, because she works for it and deserves it.
People should get an equal chance, and i say should, cause its still not happening
I got fed up with the homosexuality on the show as well. I feel like it is shoved down our throats, in an effort to thumb their noses at Christianity and Faith.
I watched last night, because I hadn’t seen it in a llloooonnnggg time, and honestly missed seeing it. I regret it! I’ll have to stop watching entirely, because it’s increasingly showing a disregard for faith based values. I hate to feel that way, but, I agree with earlier statements, I feel being force fed homosexual propaganda.
I have gay friends that I absolutely love and admire, and I do not feel any of them should be treated poorly, or bullied because of their lifestyle choice. I also know they are God’s children, just like I am, and should be loved, despite their choice. I just know what the scriptures say, and don’t think it’s appropriate the writiers of Glee broadcast it like a american Gay Utopia.
Well said! In Glee world, if you’re gay, overweight, black or some combination of the three (witness the transgendered kid Unique), you hold wisdom and power. If you’re straight, athletic, and attractive, there’s something deeply wrong with you …
I do think viewers are catching on. Ratings for Glee have dropped like 25% since it’s peak. I can’t believe it’s got more then one more season left (after which it can rake in syndication fees). It’s sad. It reminds me of Ellen’s sitcom – when she made the entire show about her sexuality, instead of her comedy. It was cancelled inside of a year or so – a real waste given (in my opinion) her talent.
Homosexuality is an invention. Personally, I support all of the self-destructive behavior we’re seeing. The sooner everything tanks, the sooner you can say “I told you so” and begin anew. And give me a break. America and “traditional values”. Even without the gaylords, America is a mess of spiteful, ignorant, disingenuous morons who haven’t a clue what it means to be truly human, often arrogant, often subservient sycophants, who treat each other worse than garbage, like objects for their own use (and often those who accuse others of shallowness and selfishness are in this camp, who use those terms to guilt people into submission). I say, let the States swim in gayness. The country deserves gayness for being what it is at heart: gay country.
I am sure that the homosexual community actually likes having ONE show depiciting their life values. Just because this program showcases gay couples more liberaly than others, does not mean it is wrong. I don’t understand why people are so against gay marraige or gay rights. You have no right to tell these people what they can and cannot not do, because you are not one of them. Imagine if you were gay, and someone was telling you that you do not qualify for the same rights as straight people. Wouldn’t that upset you? And yes, I know there is a verse in the Bible that states being gay “is bad,” but there are more religions in the world than Christianity. Also, that religion should have no effect over gay rights, since church and state are supposed to be SEPERATE. This show is not wrong in any way, and I actually praise it because it is teaching young men and women to accept everyone the way they are, isn’t that what we all want? Or do we want the next generation to be bigots and homosexuals, just like this one is? It is immoral to have these values. Disciples of Jesus and God should love everybody for who they are, since that IS what Jesus preached. It is a contradictory, since there are a lot of Christians that think being gay is bad, when a true Christain accepts everyone, because that is what Jesus did. If you don’t like the show, don’t watch it. Don’t drag eveyone else along with you.
i Agree.
Imagine a world were gay would be the standard and as a man you would have to mary a man ’cause everybody else does.’