Gay Readers Chime In On Chris Colfer 'Rolling Stone' Pic
BY ON TOP MAGAZINE STAFF
PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 03, 2010
Gay readers mostly approve of a hair-raising photo of Chris Colfer
published inRolling Stone.
The picture of 20-year-old Colfer in his persona of Kurt Hummel,
a 16-year-old gay student at McKinley High on the Fox musical-
comedy hit Glee, puts the teenager in a hairy situation.
Hummel is shown seated in a gay bar holding what appears to be
an appletini surrounded by a group of hairy, leather-clad male
admirers.
According to readers of AfterElton.com, a website dedicated to
all-things-gay in showbiz, the photo is not that racy at all.
“I nearly snorted my coffee when I first saw this,” said one commenter
going by the username jrex. “Yes, it is a bit edgy, but looking at
Chris/Kurt I can't help but think of it as a contemporary homage
to a Norman Rockwell painting.”
“I love it,” said another commenter, Abre Deale. “Chris' expression
is just priceless. … I think it's deliciously cheeky.”
Eighty percent of respondents to a poll on the website called the
picture “Inspired” or “Very edgy, but witty.” Another seventeen
percent said the pictured skated close to being inappropriate.
And only three percent said it was “Truly inappropriate.”
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