that dude's hilarious.
And the actor that plays him HAS to be gay IRL or else he's one hell of an actor, cause he's got that gay twinkle in the eye and everything.
Actually he is gay (and that Wicked competition in episode 9 was base in a fact of his RL), but he said that he isn't as camp as the character (very believable) and dress more like "target"[/quote]
According to wikipedia, he auditioned for Artie, but they were so impressed with him that they wrote a new character for him.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, there are interviews on Hulu with him and the director where they do say that he originally came in for Artie and they loved him so much that they created the character.
It does this old gay activist's heart proud. Not more than 10 years ago, having a character like him on TV would have been a liability to the show, instead of an asset.
Hell, I started watching TV in the 70s where the only gay characters on TV were portrayed as prostitutes, comic relief, or pedophiles.
We've come a long way baby.[/QUOTE]
What I meant about the Wicked Song was this:
An experience that was later turned into a sub-plot for his character on Glee was being denied each year by the high school teachers the chance to sing \"Defying Gravity\" from the musical Wicked because it was traditionally performed by a woman.[3] His grandmother, a minister, let him sing the song in her church.[3] He is openly gay.[4]
But yeah, a looooong way, since the times where "There love that doesn't to speak of his name" wasn't even considered a possibility of actual love.
The Campness of the character annoys me sometimes, but also makes is somehow better when he has his Crowning Moments of Awesome.
edit: I have to say this... I am the only one that thinks that his mouth is HUGE? I mean, it is like a joker smile or something, I actually think that they make him act with that smile-less serious look in his face so nobody gets scared, but in the Interviews it looks so big O.O
