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'Glee' Couples Gay and Straight Lose their Virginity but Where are the 'Sweet Lady Kisses?'
Glee is heating up for sweeps with two of the show’s most popular couples losing their “V” card in the upcoming episode entitled “The First Time." And one of those couples’ story lines will break new ground on television with a sensitive portrayal of gay teen couple, Kurt and Blaine, losing their virginity to each other.
Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss) “finally decide to take the next step in their relationship. It’s all handled very delicately and is incredibly moving. I can’t think of another network series that’s taken a teenage gay relationship so far or been so progressive,” writes Entertainment Weekly's Tim Stack.
Meanwhile there’ll be a parallel story that features the show’s on again / off again musical couple Rachel (Lea Michelle) and Finn (Cory Monteith) navigating the emotions –via a musical number of course --around Rachel’s decision to lose her virginity to Finn.
The catalyst for Kurt and Blaine’s choosing to consummate their relationship at this juncture is a romantic triangle with new gay Warbler member Sebastian (Grant Gustin), who sets his sites on Blaine. There’ll also be a terrifically fun scene in which Kurt, Blaine and Sebastian run into Kurt’s closeted, reformed bully –and Santana’s beard for prom-- Karofsky (Max Adler) at Lima, Ohio’s only gay bar Scandals, according to EW.
The episode will no doubt attract controversy, sending antigay and abstinence only groups into a tailspin with what is purported to be a sensitive, mature handling of something the majority of teens go through in high school, but sweeps month was made for controversy.
“The episode is said to highlight the importance of safe sex, emotional preparation and a healthy discourse,” according to The Daily Mail.
Don’t look for a parallel story with the show’s now official girl / girl couple Santana (Naya Rivera) and Brittany (Heather Morris) as the pair had been getting their “sweet lady kisses” on and “scissoring” as far back as a year ago.
Still, fingers crossed that Glee's producers trot out that old sweeps month stand-by, the lesbian kiss, now that Santana and Brit are full on dating.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
