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Well, his first gay kiss. And not even a consenting one, but a surprise kiss from a homophobic bully who, when confronted, turned out to of course be a closeted homosexual.

Mixed feelings on how the whole thing played out, but at least Kurt had the dignity to be appalled by the whole thing.
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Nobody cares
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If only you'd listen to your Sloggers instead of drinking in the hotel bar...

It was a really great episode, not just for the Kurt storyline, but for bullying in general. And yes, Kurt gets his first kiss, but not the one he wanted. He was kissed by his hulking bully tormentor in the locker room, who seems shocked by his actions, and goes back to bullying Kurt for the rest of the episode. Kurt does, however, meet the person who will possibly be a love interest in future shows (was his name Blaine?), and who did an all-guy version of Teenage Dream for Kurt, it was pretty sweet. The saddest part: When Kurt goes to the all boys' school and discovers that bullying isn't tolerated there...it was probably the best scene.

(yes, I'm a Gleek...)
4
He was kissed by the closet case bully. But he was serenaded by the dreamy out student from another school.
5
Bieste also gets her first kiss, don't forget!
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Canuck, perfect summary. I really liked the way they played the homophobe, too, that Kurt and Blaine had a little scene marveling at how long it would be before the guy gets out of the closet. The expression on Kurt's face when the bully later cheap-shotted him spoke volumes.

My favorite moment was with the grownups, though - when Shue gave Coach Beast her first kiss - that was terrific.

The musical aspect's getting pretty tired, though any excuse to see Harry Shum Jr. dance is still all right by me.
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@5, you're right, her name is spelled "Bieste" - so funny.
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@3
Lucky Kurt. I went to an all-boy's school (Parochial) for four years, and it was the most blantantly sexist, heterosexist, homophobic and (for good measure) racist environment I've ever been exposed to in my life.

I'm happy for Kurt, and particularly happy about the current campaign against bullying. For me, though, what Kurt experienced in the all-boy's school is every bit as much of a fantasy as high school students spontaneously breaking into perfectly staged song-and-dance numbers.

That said--Blaine is dreamy, and watching Kurt fall in love was a real treat.
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High School would have been so much better had I had a Blaine of my own!
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True, gus and jaydog, the beast/bieste storyline was just as good as the Kurt one. I thought it was so cool that they didn't just make it about bullying kids, that they showed how something that seems funny at first can become so hurtful...who would have ever thought that my favourite, thought-provoking show these days would be on the Fox network?

My 14 year old son, however, was not impressed by the Teenage Dream number, but I think it had more to do with the red piping on their uniforms, which he couldn't quite get beyond...
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@8 I'd have to agree with you, everything I've read/heard about all boys' schools makes them sound more like Lord of the Flies than that episode of Glee. (My school was coed, so I can't comment personally.)
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Canuck, how much do I love that your son's main objection was the red piping! Mine was that all the group numbers have this incredibly vacuum-sealed sound.
13
Yay, Canuck's son! That red trim on the blazers preoccupied me through the entire episode. Ugh.
14
Blaine is confirmed hetero, of course. Note the gay face Kurt versus his love interest. Sad. They're always straight.
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High school sucked except I did have sex with three different guys over my junior and senior years....

So the kiss isn't that impressive. Now getting gang banged by hot football players would be TV worth watching!!
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I have to confess that kiss came out of nowhere for me and I screamed out loud. I like it when shows manage to surpise me. And for the first time in quite a while, I am actually interested in seeing what happens next, since usually there is no plot follow-up on Glee. well, not since the fake pregnancy.
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I'm hoping that Blaine sticks around to give Kurt his first consensual kiss... I expected it when he invited Kurt to lunch, but it didn't happen. Boo.

And to the poster at 14, Blaine (the character) is confirmed HOMO, he said so himself. The actor who plays him, Darren Criss, grew up in San Francisco and lived with a bunch of theater queers, and when he got to college he slowly came to the realization that while he liked all the stereotypical queer stuff, he was a straight male. He said his friends were shocked when he came out as straight.

Kurt can be happy... those of us in the real world should be sad though. ;)
18
Ummmm... Not to draw attention to my own Gleekiness, but didn't Kurt receive his firt kiss from Britney last season?
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17, thanks for the clarification

the actor who plays the gay character of Blaine is straight. That is where the cynicism came from
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I don't think Kurt counts brit as his first "real" kiss as he puts it... i wouldn't count being pushed, shoved, and then having my head grabbed and kissed by the bully as a "real" kiss either... and i don't think he counts it... it was cute to see him watch Blaine, though.
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I was watching Alessandra from #Caprica on AOTS - did I miss anything?
22
Herpes is 'better'...
but if Kurt hangs in there AIDS will be just around the corner!

casual physical intimacy is Better for spreading STDs.....
23
As someone who was a gay kid and who endured four years in an all male school (see my comment at 8), I have to add that, despite the amount of disbelief that Glee requires everyone to suspend, I have found myself happy all day thinking about the Kurt-Blaine storyline. Back when I was in high school (early 70's), if gay characters surfaced on television at all, they were pathologized, so they could either be menacing, fear-inspiring creeps, or so they could be the objects of liberal pity. The only other scenario involved gay characters being played for laughs.

There would NEVER have been a plot line that would have asked that the audience to identify with a gay kid like Kurt, much less ask that the audience be happy when a cute guy like Blaine showed some interest in him.

It gets better in all kinds of ways.

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Believe half of what you see and none of what you heard via email. It didn't get better for Kurt because of a kiss.
25
Usually I find their renditions a little too pretty, but I thought their "Teenage Dream" was better than Katy Perry's. Incredibly uplifting. I'm a little tired of the "gay-hater is secretly gay himself!" storyline though. Too easy.
26
The 'I'm-there-for-ya-buddy' COURAGE text from Blaine: wasn't that Dan Rather's one-time safe word? Red piping - yes, a fashion distraction but not nearly as gay-shrieking as Kurt's oleo yellow car coat and boots.
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BTW, I love Dan's relationship with "Glee." Hates it, never watches it, links approvingly to people who write about it, wants to know about what happened on an episode, etc. Will the real Dan please stand up?
28
FOX fell short of a good message on anti-gay bullying. A good message would have shown Kurt's father getting involved. Chewing out Figgins and filing police reports for the acts of assault committed against his son.
29
Kurt has no teeth. Watch him sing sometime. Nothing in there but darkness.
30
The show gets some points for trying to deal with a serious topic, but it does so in a very superficial manner, designed to allow Kurt to wallow in self-righteous victimhood. Victimhood? Is that even a word?

Anyway. In a discussion with his glee coach who is trying to reach out to Kurt, instead of describing the regular bullying he's been suffering at the hands of a specific student, Kurt makes some general comment about homophobia being tolerated and gets in some snark about the guy's lesson plans being boring before marching off in a huff over having been expected to sing with the boys instead of the girls. God forbid Kurt should actually REPORT the bullying, or demand that the authorities at his school actually do something, oh no -- he has to get his conveniently hunky pal Blaine to try to do a public intervention with the bully in a public stairwell, of all things, prompting another fight and another chance for little Kurt to get all weepy in that fluty little voice.
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@30 Agreed. According to FOX the appropriate response to anti-gay bullying is "courage" (and finding a hunky prep school kids for support) not (gasp) legal and official action! Thanks FOX. Points for Blaine's moment when we articulately calls out adults who think nothing can be don about anti-gay bullying, but at the end of the episode nothing was done!

And by the way, you haters are trippin. The red trim on the jackets was great. It's a look that benefits from being one in the crowd, but I thought it was a cute way to up date what would have otherwise been a boring and typical prep school look. It was polished while being deconstructed. Very Haus of Gaga, which is basically Glee/FOX's definition of gay.
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@1, I started to cry when Kurt was talking with Blaine at the all boys school. It really hit me.

There was defiantly a message in there about bullying. And how NOT o.k it is. One of the best parts in the episode was Kurt stood up for himself. Even if it didn't entirely go the way he intended and he's finally found someone who understands him, respects him and is willing to be there for him.

I loved it.
33
Now the troll's against kissing. Ain't that grand?

I bet it's against Sharia law, too. ;)
35
From The Onion AV Club about last night's episode, it puts it very well indeed:

There are problems scattered throughout this storyline. The prep school Kurt visits isn't anything like a real place; it's a kind of Tolerance Narnia, where everybody behaves like kids never possibly would. Sure, it would be nice if the schools of our land specifically outlawed bullying someone for being gay (and that there are school board members who stand in the way of policies like this is absolutely horrifying), but that doesn't mean the school will immediately become Utopia, that the kids will gather in the hallways and sing earnestly about their skintight jeans, making everything all better. Furthermore, Blaine is less a character than some sort of gay genie, who always knows exactly what will work best in every situation. Kurt isn't torn between a life that's terrible at McKinley and the possibility of the grass being greener on the other side. He's torn between two stereotypes that don't function the way the world really works.

Read the rest here:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/never-bee…
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@28 and 30

I would agree with you that FOX missed some opportunities, and that Kurt could have behaved more productively and with more maturity.

But I would also point out that this is a show that consistently dares the viewers to like its characters. Most of the characters in Glee behave in ways that range from the selfish (see Rachel or Sue in almost any episode) to the despicable (see Quinn lying about the father of her child, or Shu's wife lying about pregnant). Student or adult--male or female--straight or gay--these people are (to put it nicely) seriously flawed human beings.

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@34, you link speaks to the lovely-fantasy aspect of Blaine and Kurt, and how the fantasy aspect is precisely why it may be extremely powerful for gay kids watching it, last night, in reruns, on the net forever. That gave me shivers, thanks for linking to that!
38
Kurt's bully reminded me of Sen. Larry Craig and all the other gay bullies who we later find out are secretly having gay sex with other men. I bet Kurt's bully is a repressed homosexual.
39
I think it DID get better (well, at least started getting better) for Kurt last night, but obviously not because of the kiss.

@28, @30 etc...I believe I read that this is just the beginning and they plan on having more episodes in relation to this. I think they've already made it clear that Kurt's dad will always stand up for him, but, yes, I too would like to see him stand up to the adults that are allowing these things to happen to Kurt. (But Burt is probs still home recovering from whatever happened to him awhile back).

@26 ...don't be a hater. ;) I loved the yellow coat/boots! :)

Side note: I loved Darren Criss...he was great and, as always, Chris Colfer brought it last night! I think the Blaine/Kurt pairing has fabulous potential.
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I want Kurt to get with the Bully. To correct him. Cus I'm crazy.
41
That was less a kiss and more an assault.
42
Does anyone have a problem with watching Glee since it is being aired on FOX? Isn't that the same station that....

Did you know there are people who are trying to talk businesses out of showing FOX on their televisions because of their faux news, etc, etc, etc?
43
Their number of Teenage Dream was amazing. The scene where Blaine explains homophobic bullying isn't tolerated at their school and then Kurt just starts crying without saying anything else, made me cry. But . . .

I'm getting really sick of seeing the bully win. So Kurt got to bitch him out. So the bully turns out to be a closeted self-hating homo. But the last scene with the bully involves him shoving Kurt into a locker and Kurt looking so depressed I started crying again. That's it. No official action, the bully doesn't stop, nobody else gets involved . . . there better be some serious repercussions coming up in the storyline!

And the "Courage" text from Blaine was the sweetest thing I've seen on tv in a while.
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@42 You know that Family Guy is aired on Fox too, right? The entertainment division of Fox is considerably more liberal than the "news" division. Even the local news that they air on the main Fox broadcast channel is liberal. At least here in Chicago.
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I look forward to the episode in which Kurt and Blaine sing a love duet to each other. I hope it's every bit as cheesy and over-the-top as "Teenage Dream."

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