TheBoxScene Project in the News
The initial success of The Box Scene Project garnered media attention, helping to amplify the discussion of the double standard between queer and heterosexual couples manifesting itself on Glee.
Below, we’ve cataloged relevant media responses and subsequent comments on the double standard from individuals significantly involved with Glee.
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Audio of Chris Colfer Reacting to The Box Scene Project
Rough transcript:
- Teej: Hi, Chris. Heather and I organized a charity fundraiser of fans of Kurt and Blaine and we raised $14,000 for Project Angel Food.
- Chris: Were, were you guys the ones that got the Christmas, the, the box—?
- Teej & Heather: *nodding* The Box Scene?
- Chris: Yeah! The Box Scene! Crazy! That’s amazing!
- Teej: *hands little note*
- Chris: *looking at it* Is this for me?! Thank you!
Chris Colfer Comments on the Double Standard
Relevant bit begins @ 5:30
Rough Transcript:
“My view is that they’re absolutely right [that there’s a double standard] but that’s how it is in America, like, there are more heterosexual couples that can show affection freely in schools than the gay couples can, that’s just our show imitating life. You really do have to give Ryan credit because he put two gay boys losing their virginities to each other on national television, I mean that’s unheard of. So, I dunno, I think I’m kind of mixed, I understand the frustration but it also frustrates me as well because I know we have done so much on the show but there many moments when you have to reflect life and the fact that these gay characters are still not 100% accepted are still a little cautious about showing public affection for each other is very, very real.” - Chris Colfer on the double standard on Glee
Ryan Murphy Comments on the Double Standard
Gold Derby: When I had posted in our message boards that I would be talking with you and invited questions from our site users, 42 comments were posted within the next three hours, and two thirds of them all had to do with the same thing: this conspiratorial notion that there is a gay bias on the show. That, here for example is a poster named Caroline who said, “How does Ryan feel about the fact that Finn and Rachel have kissed more in one episode than Kurt and Blaine have in the entire course of their year-long relationship?” Now that same question has about fifteen different manifestations in different questions. Is that a fair observation?Ryan Murphy: First of all- I have a couple of things to say about that. The thing about that is this: I think there are a group of fans that are very, very interested in the Brittany/Santana romance, and the Kurt/Blaine romance. I would guess, I would call them our gay fans, and they have become among the most passionate commenters and shippers and the thing I have to say about that is I really do understand it, I really do understand the passion for it. I really understand how important it is for so many young people to turn on a show and say, “Oh I’m like that character, I am like that.” I wish I had the freedom to do, to have that bravery. I mean when I was growing up, I’ve talked about that before, I was growing up gay, I had Rock Hudson and Paul Lynde, and Charles Nelson Reilly, and that was about it. And I only knew about Rock Hudson because my grandmother kept telling me he was a poofter. So I get it. First of all I get it, I appreciate it, I really- I commend the passion.
The thing about that, I like with that sort of group of fans, you really at a certain point, and we do talk about it in the writers’ room, you really can’t win. I feel like this is a network show that is on at 8 o’clock, which is you know a family hour, and I feel like there is no other television show on television that has done more for gay characters and for gay storylines than Glee. I really believe that and I’ve really fought hard for it and I have a network and a studio that doesn’t bat an eye and says, “Great.” I feel like a lot of the lesbian fans want Brittany and Santana to have a full on nude makeout sessions sometimes, I feel like they feel the same way about Kurt and Blaine. I think that they also feel sometimes that we have not handled those characters exactly like they want. And to that I say, “You know what? You’re probably right. I think there’s some things in the last two seasons we maybe could have done a little more artfully, and a little bit more carefully and a little more- respectfully in the wrong word but I sort of do get the criticisms, but you know look- you’re doing a show very sort of- a lot things happen, you try to do you best, sometimes things don’t work out.
Glee’s Missing Klaine Box Scene Revealed - After Elton
Blaine liked it, but it seems Fox just wouldn’t let him put a ring on it.That’s what Glee’s Klaine fans have assumed ever since a scene where Blaine gives Kurt a box containing a ring he’d made out of gum wrappers was cut from the Season 3 Christmas episode — a chop job so surprising my recap of the episode was entitled “No Box.”
Of course, scenes get cut all the time. The official word at the time was that the scene was cut for length, and we all know that losing one of the three scenes where Finn and Rachel go around and around about what he’s going to give her for the holiday would have been a tragedy of Titanic proportions.
But all things considered, the absence of the scene did seem a little suspicious. And it definitely left viewers curious. What did they say to each other in the scene? What did it mean to them as a couple?
Fortunately, the intrepid Klaine fandom managed to get the answers to those questions while raising thousands of dollars for an AIDS charity at the same time.
Glee Season Finale Recap: “Goodbye” - After Elton
And then we get a sweet, tender little scene with Kurt and Blaine.
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And then, because they’re alone in a classroom and have been in a stable, loving relationship for more than a year and having sex for months, they kiss. Okay, well, they don’t, due to a double standard the size of Sue’s latest Nationals trophy.
And we wonder why the Klaine fandom does things like bid $4,200 at a charity auction to get a script showing the cut scene where Blaine gives Kurt a ring for Christmas, since the chances of seeing actual intimacy between these two boys on the air are right up there with Sugar Motta replacing Rachel as New Directions’ main soloist.
Glee Kurt and Blaine Extraordinary Merry Christmas Box Scene Revealed - MjsBigBlog
Remember the Glee Christmas special? In Extraordinary Merry Christmas, official FOX episode stills promised a gift-giving scene between Kurt and Blaine. In the end, the entire scene was cut, reportedly for time. Glee producers have promised to include the scene on the Season 3 DVD due out in the fall. But, now you won’t have to wait to find out exactly what happened in the missing scene, thanks to some charity minded Glee fans!A group of Glee fans got together to bid on the Extraordinary Merry Christmasscript, which was an item offered for auction to benefit Project Angel Food, an organization that provides daily meals for people homebound or disabled by HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses. Fans won the auction with a $4,200 bid and then raised more. The total is up to $13,606! If you’d like to contribute to the cause click this link.
If you were dying to know WHAT WAS IN THE DAMN BOX.
