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Headline: Chris Colfer was told coming out as gay would ruin his career
Caption: The actor, who played openly gay high school student Kurt Hummel in the musical TV show, revealed on The View that he was warned not to come out as gay when he first started shooting the series. "I remember when I got on Glee, the role was written for me, and I did not know what the role was gonna be, and so I opened the script and when I read the script for the first time was when I saw that it was an openly gay character and I was terrified," he recalled.
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