If I have to pick a favorite character from ABC’s hit show Ugly Betty it would have to be the incredibly flamboyant Justin Suarez played by twelve-year-old Mark Indelicato. When that boy dressed up in a sailor suit to be Gene Kelly for Halloween, I thought it was the funniest thing ever. In many ways his passion for fashion and unbridled love of musicals reminds of how I was as a youth and how unusual I must have looked to everyone else.

It’s not often that you see gay youth represented on television in a way that isn’t derogatory (family shows tend to shy away from that sort of thing). I just love the fact that Justin doesn’t give a damn about what anybody else thinks of him. To be so young he’s got a strong sense of himself. It would have been nice to have had a character like that to look up to when I was young but I’m loving it just the same! Dance on sailor!