Come Out & Play: Marco from Degrassi Part 3
This week’s Come Out & Play post continues to spotlight Marco, a well-known character from the hit show, Degrassi.
Basically, Degrassi is a totally awesome show! (That’s my inner 80’s child coming through!) There’s an openly gay character on the show named Marco DelRossi. His inner struggle with coming out was made into a two-part episode a couple of years ago. It was brilliantly scripted and just as wonderfully acted. Other episodes followed, revolving around his coming out to his family and friends. I thought I’d show it as a series, breaking it down in video clips from YouTube. Remember the days when you’d watch a film in class, knowing you wouldn’t have to sit through another lecture for at least a week because that’s how long it would take to get through the film in the amount of time the class allotted. Well, think of this as a Come Out & Play 101 film! It’s broken up into nine parts.
(If you are confused and missed the introduction of Marco’s story, go here for a refresher. To view the other parts of Marco’s story, click on the Come Out & Play category on the right hand side to watch parts 1-2!) This is Marco’s story part 3:
Make sure to come back next Friday for the fourth part of Marco’s coming out story! Trust me, it only gets better!
As a side note, I’m sure all of you have read about Michael Glatze on many GLBT blogs. He’s a former gay activist turned Christian right fear-monger. Seriously, no joke. I didn’t write about him because, at the time, I just didn’t have the stomach to digest it and regurgitate my opinion. Plus, plenty of other blogs tackled the heaviness of the story in a respectable manner.
Recently, however, I came across a sound clip from the GAYBC Radio Network. Benjie Nycum, Glatze’s former partner, was being interviewed. He speaks quite candidly about their relationship and his point of view about where Glatze’s sudden turn around might be coming from. More importantly, he shows a different side of Glatze - a side that is important for us to be aware of. Here is a man who has yet to reconcile with the trauma of his past. For that, I feel great empathy. His own fear of God, life and death have caused him to take an apparent leap of faith that is so extreme, he’s forgotten who he is altogether. It’s not as unbelievable as it may seem. It is, really … just incredibly sad. Please listen with an open mind.
Tune in every Friday for the Come Out & Play series, featuring coming out stories of celebrities, every day people, personal reflections, advice, tid bits and everything else concerning the complicated world of coming out! Got an interesting coming out story to tell? Contact me and I will feature it in an upcoming post of Come Out & Play.
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July 20th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I am so grateful you posted the De Grassi series. I watched it all in one viewing. I am so glad that who we are is, at last, and in some venues, being treated with honesty and respect.
I’m 65, so you know I have lived a lot of the before De Grassi, I’m glad my younger brothers and sisters have a little more freedom.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 am
[...] talked about GAYBC radio before. John McMullen does an amazing job interview Benjie Nycum (Micheal Glatze’s former partner) [...]