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Jane Lynch expresses her “huge disappointment” in President Obama when it comes to LGBT equality

http://clubglee.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/jane-lynch-glee_l.jpgThere is a new interview with Glee star Jane Lynch in the UK’s The Guardian that reveals more about this gifted actress that I have read elsewhere.

Like this part where the woman who plays a terrifying high school physical ed teacher talks about her own high school experience:

Lynch described herself as a floater who coasted from group to group. Socialising on the fringe, she never made enough of an impression to warrant mockery, she says. It wasn’t until later in life that she discovered she was gay, so she missed out on the taunting experienced by the gay character on Glee. “I didn’t know what ‘gay’ was in high school,” she says. “We used the word ‘queer’ when someone was weird – when I finally heard what it really meant, my heart sank, and I thought, ‘Oh God, that’s me.’ ”

The actress, who has been active in various causes for years including being on the board of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, is clearly frustrated with the state of marriage equality in the US where states like California allow voters to pass bans on same-sex marriage:

“Shouldn’t there be safeguards against the majority voting on the rights of a minority?” Lynch wonders. “If people voted on civil rights in the 60s, it would have never happened. It took somebody like [President] Lyndon Johnson going, ‘F all of you! I’m going to do this.’” She pauses for a moment, then says, “[President Barack] Obama won’t do it. He’s a huge disappointment to me.”

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