Darren Criss (Blaine) Grant Gustin (Sebastian) Max Adler (Dave Karofsky) Naya Rivera (Santana) Heather Morris (Brittany) LGBT Actors Who Play Straight Characters. But as Americans strive to return to the good old days of romance, one UNLV history professor says they never actually existed. We sat down with Nelson to get a handle on the history behind the holiday and the ways advertising, consumerism, and social media have changed the way we celebrate. Popular lore says that in 5th century A.
Glee alum Darren Criss, who sang like the rent was due as gay character Blaine Anderson, identifies as a straight cisgender man. But he still wants us to know that he’s connected to queer. The Ides of February February 15th was sacred to the Romans, it marked a fertility festival. Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman God of Agriculture, and the twins Romulus and Remus, the mythological founders of Rome. There they would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.
Yes, there are those moments where Blaine talks a bit about his past experiences and those are particularly about him being gay but it's not much. The most his identity gets talked about is in "Blame It On the Alcohol" where he thinks he might be bisexual, the narrative is okay with biphobia, and he's ultimately reassured he is gay. On the day of his death, Valentine wrote a small note to his lady that said simply, Love from your Valentine. Thus began the Valentine tradition of exchanging notes, flowers and love. I can, however, use this column and the topic for just the opposite.
During an appearance at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, the Glee alum, 37, reflected on his groundbreaking portrayal of Blaine Anderson, an openly gay high school student, on the Fox. I grew up seeing couples giving each other boxes of chocolates, dollar store balloons and stuffed bears year after year — a reminder my loneliness. It also othered me in my queerness — my identity as a femme queer person of color influenced how I saw and moved through the world, isolated by everything that made me different. This is obviously an issue in film and on TV, where depictions of straight couples are abundant.