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Jane Lynch then took the stage and told the crowd: “I’m thrilled to be here tonight.”
The Emmy winner introduced a real-live glee club from John Burrows High School who maneuvered their way to the front and around the rooftop swimming where the event was taking place. They performed Vogue and Somebody to Love and Ryan Murphy later confessed that he was afraid someone was going to fall into the pool.
In introducing Ryan Jane said: “Ryan Murphy is not shy. No one writes character like Ryan Murphy. He’s never head-on or obvious which makes it fun to be an actor. Here’s a description of Sue Sylvester in the pilot script: “Sue Sylvester may or may not have posed for Penthouse and may or may not be on horse estrogen.’ Everything I needed to know as an actor was in that phrase. Ryan’s creation of Kurt Hummel, the gay fashionable soprano is a gift to kids gay or straight. Unlike gay portrayals of the past, Ryan tells another story, and as it turns out it’s a bit of his own story growing up gay in Indiana.
Kurt is popular, Kurt has confidence. And if he has flaws, they have nothing to do with his orientation. Ryan says we’ll never make Kurt a victim. In Burt Hummel, we have a father who struggles so honestly to wrap his mind around this kid, a kid he was not expecting. He finds in himself the ability to love his son unconditionally. And because Ryan doesn’t step back from the emotional truth of this relationship, he performs and incredible service to the parents who sit down with their kids to watch Glee every week.”
She added: “At the time when we are hearing of one kid after another committing suicide, Ryan’s work here has become even more valuable. He’s changing lives and so many gay and lesbian kids have an uber cool and fashion forward role model to look up to.”
Ryan gave his Sue Sylvester a big hug then told the crowd: “It’s my belief that every generation should concentrate on one thing and that is making it easier for the one following it. That is not only my goal with Glee, but it’s also been the goal in my life.When I was growing up, gay kids had two role models. We had Paul Lynde and we had Charles Nelson Reilly. And my grandmother was convinced about Rock Hudson even though I was not so sure. Things have changed. Now we have such wonderful out and about people like Jane, Chris Colfer, Adam Lambert, Ellen [DeGeneres], Neil Patrick Harris and now, kids also have Glee. Every TV season on Glee we have a theme … last year the topic de jour was teenage pregnancy and the ripple effect. This year on Glee we are promoting a single theme with hopefully wider implications and that theme is tolerance.”
“And in the spirit of this award, I want the young people assembled to know I think the most important thing we can do in this industry is not just write checks but educate and that’s what we’re trying to do with Glee. And it’s the gay viewers we are trying to reach, it;s parents who don’t understand the little Kurt Hummels living under their roofs and it’s the bullies who, at least on Glee, will be brought to justice and educated. On Glee the young gay people have a champion. [SPOILERS]Here we are adding to the television landscape three new characters who are gay who along with Chris Colfer’s Kurt Hummel [SPOILERS] will repeatedly and soundly and hopefully send a message out there that the coolest thing you can do as a young person is to accept the person next to you for who they want to be but more importantly, for who they are.”
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