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- Title
Glee: coming out on U.S. teen television.
- Authors
Monaghan, Whitney
- Abstract
The article discusses variations to the coming out narrative and the use of an ensemble of queer adolescent characters in the television series "Glee." Topics addressed include the show's gay characters Kurt Hummel and Santana Lopez, departing from the norms of the coming out narrative and the teen genre, and the characters' consideration of passing as straight. Also mentioned are a restriction on sexual expression on teen television and the show's representation of the revelation of queerness.
- Subjects
GLEE (TV program); LGBTQ+ people on television; COMING out (Sexual orientation); LGBTQ+ teenagers
- Publication
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 2012, Issue 54, p32
- ISSN
0146-5546
- Publication type
Article