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full name: Joseph Adam Hart age: 17 grade: Junior gender identity: Male pronouns: He/him sexual & romantic orientation: Pansexual biromantic family members of importance: Rebecca Hart (mother), Samuel Hart (father) clubs/teams (if any): Glee Club, God Squad positive traits: Compassionate, patient, honest, humble, upbeat negative traits: Gullible, inexperienced, scatterbrained, indecisive, timid

biography

Where many children grew up listening to nursery rhymes and fairytales, Joe Hart was raised on hymns and Bible verses. His father was a traveling Bible salesman and his mother was a Sunday school teacher, so they never had very much money – but that didn’t matter. Growing up in the church, they always had plenty one way or another, and they were surrounded by a community of people who loved and supported them. Joe had friends in the other children whose parents attended the same church, attending the Sunday school his mother taught, going to church picnics and trips, and becoming more and more active in youth group as he got older. He was taught at home by his mother, and the two of them were always close.

As Joe grew up, a second love began to form in his life, blooming from his faith like a flower pushing up through the vibrant, healthy soil. His favorite part of church was undoubtedly the music; he found more peace and happiness in the lyrics of his favorite hymns or Christian rock songs than anything else. When his youth pastor suggested that he join the church band, Joe leapt at the chance, initially starting out as a background singer. Then the band’s guitarist began to teach him to play, and Joe often joined him, or even began to play by himself. It came as a bit of a shock to him when he started to receive more attention from girls around this point, especially as he had no idea how to respond. Being homeschooled has a lot of benefits, but he was starting to realize that socializing wasn’t one of them.

Even with his friends in church group, Joe was starting to realize that if he was going to make his own way in the world someday, he would have to start branching out socially. He couldn’t spend his entire life with people who were just like him. And truth be told, he didn’t want to do that. Joe wanted to experience as much of this gift of life that he had been given as he possibly could, and he knew that meant breaking away from his mother and from home. He was seventeen years old, and soon it would be time for him to leave home, to go to college, to begin a new chapter in his life where he was the writer instead of a character.

So he begged his parents to allow him to enter mainstream school. Joe was sure they weren’t going to be open to it, but to his surprise, his parents agreed readily. His mother told him that she was more than happy to continue his education at home, but she also understood that it was time for him to spread his wings. At the beginning of the 2018 school year, his parents enrolled him at McKinley High. Joe was surprised to discover that there was already a club at McKinley for Christian students (and it didn’t hurt that one of the members, Quinn, was very pretty). They introduced him to the Glee club, allowing him to pursue both his love of God and his love of music.

full name: joseph david hart age: 17 grade: junior gender identity: cismale pronouns: he/him sexual & romantic orientation: heterosexual, heteroromantic family members of importance: Matthew Hart (father), Marisa Hart nee Reyes (mother), Charity (cat), Faith (cat), Grace (cat) clubs/teams (if any): God Squad, New Directions, Celibacy Club positive traits: Compassionate, Optimistic, Reliable, Easy-going, Adaptable negative traits: Quiet, Naive, Careful, Sensitive, Awkward

biography

The son of two proud Christians, Joe grew up with a motto of ‘Family, Love, Faith’ - something that often conflicted with the cruel world in which they lived. His first taste was when he and his mother were in line at the store when another customer cut the line - when his mother tried to gain their attention, the other customer immediately began to throw racial insults towards her - and Joe… well, Joe was confused. He didn’t understand why this person was being rude to his mother, as his mother was a bright and caring individual that wouldn’t harm another person or do no wrong. After this, his mother wanted to shield him - to protect him from the dangers of the outside world and to keep him from seeing the extent of how cruel the world could be - and instead of enrolling him in school, she began to home-school him.

With his mother becoming his teacher, she also became his close friend - as his father was often on a missionary trip or even selling bibles - and they did everything together. They would go on walks, on hikes, ride bikes, play board games, listen to Talk Radio… They did a lot of things together, but the one thing that they certainly always did was pray. Interweaving their religion into his studies, Joe became enamored with the word of God. It was something he was passionate about, something he wanted to share with others, but as he grew older… he began to notice how isolated he was from the rest of the world. While he saw guys playing a pickup game in the park, or a group of girls heading to Breadstix, he saw that he just had his mother and while he loved his mother… he wanted to explore new things.

It took some convicing to get her to agree to allow him to go to a public school, especially one like McKinley High, but on the first day of his freshman year, he was walking through the doors - sandals on his feet. It was hard to adjust to the public school environment - it was louder, for one, and some kids were quite frankly in need of God’s guidance (and after suggesting to someone that they look to God for their troubles, received a slushee facial the next day) - but it was exactly what he wanted. The world wasn’t as kind and generous as his mother wanted him to believe, as he had gotten the glimpse when he was younger and heard a couple of things on the radio, and he wanted to experience everything life had to offer… the good and the bad.

Eventually, he began to insert himself in clubs at school - the God Squad and the Celibacy Club were two of them that were important to him, as both God and his chastity were vital to his beliefs, but the Glee Club… that was surprising. With a couple of his classmates, as well as a couple of fellow club members belonging to the club, he heard about how it was a place where anyone could fit in… and as someone with a passion for the guitar (and a secret hope to become a Christian Rockstar), he was eager to join and became a member of the club his sophomore year.