Naya Rivera: a gleeful cheerleader for all those coming out | Rebecca Nicholson
Her groundbreaking character Santana Lopez was truly inspirational
In 2009, a camp, darkly funny, high-school musical-drama-comedy called Glee exploded on to our television screens. It was an instant hit, the kind of rare phenomenon that sets the cultural conversation. It took the strange world of US show choirs and turned it into an entertainment juggernaut, making huge stars out of its young cast.
played head cheerleader Santana Lopez with such vivacity that she went from being a peripheral character into one of the real stars of the show. Her slow coming-out story saw her evolve from a typical mean, who rejected her, and eventually became a proudly married, well, very young adult, because was free and easy when it came to weddings and it never said no to a proposal, no matter how age-inappropriate.
