Glee gay football player
On "Glee" football player Dave Karofsky (actor Max Adler), left, bullied gay pupil Kurt Hummer (Chris Colfer) although Karofsky is secretly queer. Photo courtesy of DVD Verdict.
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Glee's most controversial episode yet? Football jock Dave Karofsky attempts suicide after being outed as lgbtq+
By MIKE LARKIN and JADE WATKINS
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It has featured several risque story lines during it's three season run.
But last night's episode of Glee may contain been the most shocking yet.
While their was plenty of drama surrounding the wedding of Rachel Berry and Quinn Fabray's car accident, a fair contribute of the episode focused on the attempted suicide of an outed gay footballer.
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Controversial: Dave Karofsky (played by Max Adler) is seen attempting to take his control life after being outed as gay on last night's episode of Glee
Jock Dave Karofsky (played by Max Adler), who was previously moved to a new school after bullying openly gay character Kurt (played by Chris Colfer), is exposed by his class mates as a homosexual.
Karofsky's football teammates push him over the edge after they vandalise his locker with the word 'f*g' and tease him on Facebook with scathing posts, such as 'Go back into the closet.'
The result ends in the attempted suicide of Karofsky.
Teased: Karofsky's teammates force him over the edge after they vandalis
The Bully is the Secret Gay?
DAVID KAROFSKY: THE BULLY IS THE SECRET GAY?
Dave Karofsky is the football player on Glee who continuously tries to make Kurt’s life a living nightmare in the first season. He constantly taunts and tortures every kid in Glee club, but it is the worst when it comes to Kurt because Kurt is the openly gay character. In almost every episode, Dave does something to someone in Glee club- mostly it is throwing iced slushies into their faces. He is set up as the quintessential jock, bully who is constantly making fun of everyone who is different. It is not until the episode, Never Been Kissed in Season 2 where Dave’s character becomes more three-dimensional. He is seen in this episode, “going out of his way to bully Kurt at every opportunity. This results in Kurt falling further into a depressive state” (Glee Wiki). Later in the episode Kurt follows Dave into the locker room, demands to comprehend why Dave won’t end attacking him. When Kurt begins to interrogate him, “Dave becoming more and more upset, holds his fist up threateningly and orders for Kurt to not push him. Blaine and Kurt try to talk to Dave. When Kurt continues his ti Season One Finn is introduced as quarterback of the William McKinley Steep School football team. He is blackmailed into joining the school glee club, New Directions, by its faculty director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison). Despite existence ostracized by the other football players, including his top friend Puck (Mark Salling), Finn comes to enjoy existence in the club. This worries his girlfriend, head cheerleader Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron), so she joins New Instructions to keep an eye on him, afraid that head singer Rachel Berry’s (Lea Michele) interest in Finn may be reciprocated. Quinn discovers that she is pregnant, as she had cheated on Finn with Puck, but tells Finn that the baby is his, though they never actually had intercourse. She subsequently moves in with Finn and his mother Carole (Romy Rosemont) after her parents find out about her pregnancy and evict her. When Rachel figures out that Puck is the father and informs Finn, he attacks Puck, breaks up with Quinn, and quits the glee club in a fury; but after cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) sabotages the glee club’s first show choir challenge, he is fit to set aside his anWorld of Glee