Glee!!!

I love, love, love Glee -- making me a bonified Gleek. Each episode, amazingly, is as rich, funny, and profound as the rest. How can all of that fabulousness happen in one TV show? Whether it is sheer comic entertainment, like the scene when Jane Lynch did her own fabulous version of Madonna's "Vogue," the great music, or the continuing affirmation that the geeks, the freaks, the queers, and the out-of-place are not only normal, but awesome, Glee breaks new ground like no other show before it.

But this week something truly profound happened. The "regular guy" father of the openly gay (and fabulously flaming) Curt took a stand for his son. That soliloquy by a father for his gay son is the song of parent/child love for our time. Millions of queer teens were told, on national TV, that it's okay - no it's great - to be you. And millions of parents were told to get behind their queer kids.

There was nothing in popular entertainment that affirmed anything remotely queer for my generation. The next generation had Will and Grace. And Ellen (we still have Ellen). But this.... well just watch:

(If the clip gets disabled, here are a couple of links to catch the full episode.)
Episode 20: "Theatricality" (Lady GaGa episode)
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