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The “Glee” star, who is most well known for her role as Coach Sue Sylvester on the Fox musical comedy, has rejected claims that it is difficult to find work in Hollywood if you are gay.
“Look, I've never – as far as I know, it's been behind my back if it has – I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay,” she told gay entertainment website AfterElton.com. “I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic.”
The star, who married her girlfriend last year , added that gay people don’t play straight roles too often as audiences would find it difficult to believe.
“I think because since most of the world is straight … we want the audience to project their hopes and dreams for love and romance onto those actors. And if it's not in some way possible, maybe never probably, in their mind that it could never happen, then they're [studios] not going to do it. You know, most people are straight, and I think that's probably why.”
“I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles,” she added.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.MalcomAC | Jan 16, 2011, 09:46 AM EST
Another note: what do talk show hosts Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Wanda Sykes, Stephanie Miller and the woman who does the financial talk-a-thons on PBS all have in common? It's almost as if being a lesbian actually helps you in some aspects of popular culture
MalcomAC | Jan 16, 2011, 09:32 AM EST
Being a gay woman and a gay man are VERY different experiences in our society. Most of the anti-gay rhetoric is focused on gay men, rather than women. Men feel threatened by gay men while women do not feel similarly threatened by gay women.
maloney | Jan 14, 2011, 12:28 PM EST
Who said Hollywood was homophobic?