I found this to be a great interview because Darren Criss delves into how great and how pioneering the Glee episode was to show an accepted homosexual male question his orientation and explore bisexuality and heterosexuality — since the standard is for heterosexual men to be 'bicurious' or 'experiment' but Glee flipped this on its head.
He also stresses how it's important to never accept the status quo and how it's always good to question and challenge accepted dogma. Darren makes a good point that when you are different in any way — whether it's personality, religion, spirituality, what have you — you tend to want to cling to that glimmer of hope that you are indeed just like everyone else but in the end you have to embrace your own personal truth and to live comfortably in your skin truly as yourself.
(The insightful nuggets come late in the interview about 3 minutes in. Darren discusses ignorance and stereotypes around 5 minutes in.)
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