Chris Colfer Going Back In The Closet?

...that Colfer wasn't out when the USAT writer interviewed him. Sometimes feature stories get written long before they get printed, so its possible the article was written before he came out to the press.

I really don`t know what to say.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2009/11/11/Glee_Chris_Colfer_Not_Out_After_All/

Maybe it's his youth. He's awfully young (19) to be shouldering this kind of attention, especially when he's trying to build a career. He didn't say that he wasn't gay, just that he doesn't want to keep talking about it and confirming it over and over. Sounds to me like he just doesn't want to talk about it in every interview and have it be the thing he is known for.

If Chris Colfer has already talked about coming out to his parents  (as recently as last month, no less) and what it was like to be closeted in high school in two different publications (including The Advocate) isn't that enough?

How many times does he have to say he's gay and does that always have to be a topic of conversation when he's being interviewed?  

Maybe he's had some backlash that hurt him or he's having a hard time with the scrutiny or he just literally wants to keep his private life secret (not the fact that he's gay but maybe every other detail he can keep out of the grubby hands of reporters).  Only he knows.

Everyone here on AfterElton and other gay media sites keeps saying they JUST want actors to come out. That's all we want: for them to come out and be themselves.

Well, he did that.  Chris came out and talked about being gay and his coming out experience twice now.  It can't be undone.  He's not stupid so I'm sure he's aware of that.

 From USA Today: "Playing an openly gay kid means fielding questions about his own sexuality, which Colfer doesn't address. 'I try to keep up a mystery. As much as I give away of my personal life, the less people will believe me as other characters. I try to be private about it. It is what it is,' Colfer says with a shrug."

 I don't know when the story was actually written and I have yet to see what "questions" were actually asked of him about his sexual orientation because like a lot of these articles they are oddly edited for brevity so you have no idea of the context but I'm not getting the hoopla.

There is nothing in the above quote that says Chris Colfer isn't gay or that he denied being gay.  If you follow him on Twitter, his gayocity is all up and through his tweets so if he's trying to be closeted, he's doing a horrible job of it.

Is saying he doesn't want to talk about his private life or wants to have some mystery about himself an indication of him going back in the closet?  Seriously?  Come on now.  I don't believe that at all.

I do not understand this recent phenomenon where the gay media feels the need to pile up on actors who don't talk about being gay in the manner that the media thinks they should.

How many times can he be asked "So, you're gay and you play a gay kid, what's that like?"  

I don't see anything contradictory in what Chris said to USA Today versus what he said to Access Hollywood or The Advocate.

What I see is a kid who is new to the spotlight maybe trying to establish some boundaries for himself.  God forbid.

More power to him because I'm sure TMZ, JustJared and P.H. are hot on his tail trying to find out all his business and get the scoop on what random boy he looked at just a little too long or who's hand it looked like he might have been holding in the corner of some club/restaurant/theme park/department store...

I know folks here aren't trying to be mean-spirited but the gay media generally is just so very, very selective about who they decide latch on to about whether or not they are gay.

I can think of like tons of American celebrities whose relationship to "The Closet" could be and should be legitimately challenged.  Chris Colfer is not one of them.