Newsweek interviewed Jane Lynch and Dan Savage as part of its Interview Issue. As you recall, Savage spearheads the It Gets Better campaign, and Jane and wife Lara Embry participated by uploading their own inspirational message of faith and hope.
In the interview, both talk about coming out and how gay people are just like straight people. Because – to paraphrase Ellen – that’s where gay people came from. Overall, nothing too earth-shattering here, but we did especially like this Q & A:
One thing that struck me about the “It Gets Better” videos is how many straight people are willing to tell gay people it’s going to be OK.
Savage: When the first couple hundred videos came in and there were some from straight people, I got some angry emails saying, “No, take them down, this isn’t about straight people talking to gay people.” But that’s one of the ways it gets better. When you’re young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Lynch: As a gay person, I don’t want to be separate from the rest of the world. I remember I went to a lesbian event when I first moved here to Los Angeles, and this woman said to me, “Oh, it’s just for us.” I didn’t like that at all. I want to be in the human community. I don’t want to be separate.
Savage: And we can’t avoid it. Straight people are everywhere!
The only part that confused us a little bit is the end when the interviewer asks La Lynch why Sue Sylvester never had a love interest on Glee. We don’t think that’s entirely accurate – there was that newscaster that Sue Sylvester liked so much that she got all prettied up in a zoot suit; then she presumably had sex with Doogie Howser; and then she kind of got turned on by Will Schuester (ew). Anyway, read the rest of the interview here. Does the main photo remind anyone else of this picture of Mulder and Scully?
