Before there was Glee's Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), there was My So-Called Life's Rickie Vasquez (Wilson Cruz) and Queer as Folk's Justin Taylor (Randy Harrison).
No, the three storylines weren't identical, and neither were the three characters. But however revolutionary the character of Kurt is — and he is [See companion article, Kurt Hummel's Perfect Storm] — Rickie and Justin broke quite a lot of ground for Kurt. Here is a look at how their stories are similar to Kurt's —and how they're not.
My So-Called Life's Rickie Vasquez
My So-Called Lifedebuted in 1994 on ABC, and ran for one critically-acclaimed season before being canceled. It starred 14-year-old Claire Danes as Angela Chase, and 19-year-old Wilson Cruz as her out gayfriend and classmate, Rickie Vasquez.
Like Glee:
My So-Called Life was aimed right at the teenage demographic, just like Glee. And it was set in a high school not very different from McKinley High, in...
No, the three storylines weren't identical, and neither were the three characters. But however revolutionary the character of Kurt is — and he is [See companion article, Kurt Hummel's Perfect Storm] — Rickie and Justin broke quite a lot of ground for Kurt. Here is a look at how their stories are similar to Kurt's —and how they're not.
My So-Called Life's Rickie Vasquez
My So-Called Lifedebuted in 1994 on ABC, and ran for one critically-acclaimed season before being canceled. It starred 14-year-old Claire Danes as Angela Chase, and 19-year-old Wilson Cruz as her out gayfriend and classmate, Rickie Vasquez.
Like Glee:
My So-Called Life was aimed right at the teenage demographic, just like Glee. And it was set in a high school not very different from McKinley High, in...
- 12/20/2010
- by Christie Keith
- The Backlot
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