Matthew Morrison, who plays Will
Schuester on the Fox musical-comedy hit Glee,
says the show promotes that being gay is OK.
The
32-year-old actor was in Washington on Monday to perform at the
Capitol Fourth Concert, which was broadcast on PBS.
Glee's
inclusion of four central gay characters – closeted lesbian student
Santana Lopez, played by Naya Rivera; openly gay student Kurt Hummel,
played by Chris Colfer; closeted gay football player Dave Karofsky,
played by Max Adler; and openly gay student Blaine Anderson, played
by Darren Criss – along with several peripheral gay characters –
Rachel Berry's yet-to-be-seen dads and coach Sue Sylvester's evil
accomplice Sandy, also known as The League of Doom's Pink Dagger, for
example – has earned it the nickname “the gayest show on
television.”
“The
show is so popular and everyone watches it, it just kind of helps
promote that it is okay to be [gay] … it's like that Lady Gaga
song, you know, you're born this way and be proud it,” Morrison
told gay weekly Washington Blade
reporter Steve Fox. (The video is embedded in the right panel of
this page.)
(Related:
Matthew
Morrison blushes at gay boy band role.)