Gee Lus a rare terview admted that the popular C-3PO character was origally based on his gay iend, Josh Templar, who helped him sign some of the Star Wars characters at the time.
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‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
To his dismay, Hal is forced to play the part as Le Skywalker and sg a song lled "Le, Be a Jedi", a parody of "Luck be a Lady Tonight" an advertisement for the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, C-3PO and R2-D2 are scribed as "the gay robots om Star Wars" and shown a tag-team wrtlg match wh two Cylons om Battltar of the atten at the 'Con is stumed as a Rebel soldier (om The Empire Strik Back) ridg a Homer fights Louie, Hal advis him to "Use the forks! It's the mighty robots om Battltar Galacti vs the gay robots om Star Wars.
The gay robots of Star Wars.
C-3PO WAS BASED ON GEE LUS’S “GAY FRIEND”
And while ’s a historil moment for Smhers, ’s also a full-circle one for longtime seri wrer Rob LaZebnik, whose son, Johnny, spired Smhers’ big, gay g-out episo 2016.
Of urse, Smhers — who fds himself thst to a globe-trottg, whirlwd romance wh Garber’s fashnista — was already fluenced by them both when he bted down his closet door 2016’s touchg Season 27 episo “Tom Colls, ” which was penned by Rob as an homage to his gay son. “So often, gay romanc are a subplot or allud to or shown some kd of montage or as a punchle.