Jane Lynch Says Glee's LGBTQ+ Story Would Have Helped Her Growing Up
Jane Lynch has explained how the LGBTQ+ characters and stories in Glee would have been helpful to her if the show had existed when she was growing up. The actress, who portrayed maniacal cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on the show, is openly gay and married her long-time partner in 2021. In recent years, Lynch has been tearing it up as comic housewife Sophie Lennon in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and is about to take a turn on Broadway in a revival of the classic musical Funny Girl.
During its first few seasons, Glee was a television phenomenon, drawing in over nine million viewers for its 2009 pilot episode and averaging just under ten for the remainder of its first season. This was then surpassed by the second season, which became the series high-point. While the quality of the show then began to fade and the ratings dropped off massively, it did garner a very loyal audience of “Gleeks,” a portmanteau of “glee” and “geek,” who propelled the show’s songs up the Billboard charts. This fanbase was predominantly young people who found that they were able to relate the show’s quite frank depiction of high school life and in particular, the way in which Glee was able to forefront LGBTQ+ stories and characters.
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In an interview with The Guardian, Lynch has described how a show like Glee could have helped her when she was young, saying it would have been “such a relief” to have something to “relate to on a deep level.” Furthermore, she says it likely would have helped a lot of other kids, too. Read the full quote below:
«It would have been such a relief. If I had something like Glee, where it was stories that you could relate to on a deep level, that maybe as a person in high
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