Kurt from Glee.
I still like the music. I like the characters of Sue Sylvester and Santana. I love Lea Michelle’s voice who place Rachel Berry but I am beginning to dislike the character of Kurt more and more. I like his voice but don’t like the character as much.
The show is trying to put him up as a symbol of all the bullying that has been going on in the US over the past year against gays and lesbians in high schools across the US. The show has turned him “gay” instead of Kurt. Gay as in the stereotype – fashion obsessed, show tune singing, Lady Gaga obsessed, overly feminine. This is wrong. They should have kept him as Kurt, who happens to be gay. Celebrate he has started a relationship with someone and the pursuit of true love. Celebrate he has returned to the school where he was bullied. Celebrate his talents and yes he can sing.
In one of the latest episodes, Kurt was named Queen of the high school prom. He ran out and was “humiliated” but returned to take the crown and everyone was happy happy as he slow danced with his boyfriend. The question is why did he feel so bad and it wasn’t explored. He didn’t fully express what it was about and it was a missed opportunity. He should have expressed more about how he is not a “queen” but a person. Someone who has the power to grow, to be aware of who he is and not be a mere stereotype of what a “gay queen” is.
When he received his crown as prom queen, he should have taken it off and destroyed it to say “being labeled means NOTHING, I am who I am.”