Santana Lopez
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Santana Lopez is a cheerleader who joins the glee club in the episode "Showmance". Initially a spy for cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, she comes to enjoy her club participation. Her romantic relationships with fellow members Puck and Sam are followed by the realization that she is a lesbian and in love with her best friend Brittany Pierce, who is bisexual. Brittany loves Santana too, but she is with Artie Abrams, whom she doesn't want to leave, but she keeps Santana's secret to herself. Santana can't accept her sexuality because she is ashamed and too afraid of coming out. Therefore, she tried to hide her sexual orientation and use football jock Dave Karofsky (who is also closeted) as a beard to maintain her heterosexual facade and to boost her chances of becoming prom queen, though she fails at the latter.
During the season three premiere, as a show of loyalty to Sue, she participates in setting one of the glee club's pianos on fire and is dismissed from New Directions by Mr. Schuester. She returns briefly to the club, and then abandons it for the new, rival McKinley show choir, the Troubletones, run by Shelby Corcoran, but when the Troubletones lose to New Directions at Sectionals and disband, she returns again. She starts dating Brittany, which is initially kept a secret. In the episode "I Kissed a Girl", she is outed as a lesbian by Finn, and the relationship between these two girls becomes public knowledge. Due to this, Santana is disowned by her grandmother. The New Directions, however, support Santana during her coming-out period.
At Brittany's suggestion, Sue arranged for Santana a cheerleading scholarship to a top college program. Though at graduation, Santana decides she wants to go to New York to perform, and her mother presents her with the money to help fund the attempt. Santana changes her mind over the summer and accepts the cheerleading scholarship, which is to a school in Louisville, Kentucky. Later, she breaks up with Brittany due to the distance.
In the episode "Diva", Santana has dropped out of college, and of Brittany's suggestion, she moves in with Kurt and Rachel in New York. In the episode "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds", Santana meets and starts dating a waitress at the Spotlight Diner, Dani. Santana later gets back together with Brittany in the final season, and marries her, in a double wedding with Blaine and Kurt.
During the season three premiere, as a show of loyalty to Sue, she participates in setting one of the glee club's pianos on fire and is dismissed from New Directions by Mr. Schuester. She returns briefly to the club, and then abandons it for the new, rival McKinley show choir, the Troubletones, run by Shelby Corcoran, but when the Troubletones lose to New Directions at Sectionals and disband, she returns again. She starts dating Brittany, which is initially kept a secret. In the episode "I Kissed a Girl", she is outed as a lesbian by Finn, and the relationship between these two girls becomes public knowledge. Due to this, Santana is disowned by her grandmother. The New Directions, however, support Santana during her coming-out period.
At Brittany's suggestion, Sue arranged for Santana a cheerleading scholarship to a top college program. Though at graduation, Santana decides she wants to go to New York to perform, and her mother presents her with the money to help fund the attempt. Santana changes her mind over the summer and accepts the cheerleading scholarship, which is to a school in Louisville, Kentucky. Later, she breaks up with Brittany due to the distance.
In the episode "Diva", Santana has dropped out of college, and of Brittany's suggestion, she moves in with Kurt and Rachel in New York. In the episode "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds", Santana meets and starts dating a waitress at the Spotlight Diner, Dani. Santana later gets back together with Brittany in the final season, and marries her, in a double wedding with Blaine and Kurt.