'Glee's' Harry Shum, Ashley Fink Insist Their Show Doesn't Have A Gay Agenda
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | August 04, 2011
Glee co-stars Harry Shum Jr., who plays Mike Chang, and Ashley Fink, who plays Lauren Zizes, insist the Fox musical-comedy doesn't have a gay agenda.
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 out-and-proud 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.”
In a segment to be broadcast on Thursday's edition of the Joy Behar Show, Shum and Fink tell host Joy Behar that the show attempts to break many stereotypes.
“I don't think so,” Shum says as Fink nods in agreement. “I think when you have a big spread of ... they're trying to break a lot of stereotypes as well.”
“I think what this show is doing is breaking those stereotypes,” Shum adds. “And also putting these – especially with gay relationships and with Asian-Americans … for an American audience to see in different way. And I think that's great.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)