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blaine game Growing up, style was never a big part of my life. Being stylish meant wearing whatever my mom had picked out for me the night before. It meant always wearing white shirts underneath all my clothes, tucking my tops into my pants, button-ups, sweater vests, slipon shoes. What I did love was TV and the movies. Before I fell in love with fashion, I was infatuated with red carpets. Before I fell in love with boys, my biggest crushes were celebrities and fictional characters. Before I fell in love with myself, I looked to the screen to who I wanted to be.
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The first time that all of my loves poignantly collided was when I was watching Glee. I know, so typical, yet I was amazed. Besides the musical numbers, I felt myself drawn to Blaine Anderson, a character played by Darren Criss beginning in the show’s second season. He was effortlessly charming, confident, and quite possibly the coolest gay man I had ever seen in my life. Despite the abundance of accessories and his choir-boy status, he was an example to me that being gay didn’t just mean being well-dressed, traditionally feminine, or sensitive—not to suggest that any of these
