Your character, Kurt, is the show’s fashionista and a key member of New Beginnings. How similar was your high school experience in Clovis, Calif.?
It was similar in the sense that I was definitely teased a lot in high school and I was definitely at the bottom of the food chain: total underdog, complete “Gleek.” I was never like Kurt at all; I wish I was now that I watch the show, but I was never fashionable. I wish I was like Kurt in high school! [Laughs]

Were you out in high school?
Oh, no. People are killed in my hometown for that.

Another sad reminder about how far we are from equality. Glad to see Kurt from Glee coming out to the public, but sad how he felt unsafe in high school.