Nick Offerman, a lead gay character, and Alanis Morissette are jt a few of the thgs that make Fox's animated seri The Great North stand on s own.
Contents:
- THE GREAT NORTH SEASON 2 EPISO 20 REVIEW: THE POWER OF SAYG "GAY"
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
THE GREAT NORTH SEASON 2 EPISO 20 REVIEW: THE POWER OF SAYG "GAY"
For wrer Charlie Kelly, May 8th’s episo, about Ham wantg to redo his ‘beg gay’ announcement to elic a more ‘theatril’ reactn, shows that the unndnal love of fay, however uneventful, mak for the bt ‘reveal’ anyone uld ask for. * great north gay *
One of Beef’s greatt fears is that his dghter Judy, who has a ep affy for thgs artistic and glamoro will want to leave their world of fishg and workg the gged outdoors, which mak his unwaverg support of his out and proud gay son, Ham, all the more enarg to see. His gayns is jt one aspect of his inty, and not the fg tra of his character.
Ham Tob is jt a weird teenage boy who jt happens to be gay. Judy storms out of the dance and face to face wh a Thomas Wtersbone poster who to life (Llie Jordan) and tells Judy the tth--that he and Ruby were both gay and were planng on marryg as a ver. It’s also likely the first portrayal on primetime animatn terms of an thentic gay kiss (meang, not some joke moment on The Simpsons or Fay Guy) featurg a seri ma character.
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
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Ham is gay--but he’s also a lovg brother, a loyal son, a gifted baker, pure of heart, and awkward to the pot of enarment.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Beach are one of the most popular getaways for LGBT dividuals. The beach ci are the most gay and queer iendly the Carolas. * great north gay *
"The Great North” wrer Charlie Kelly did an terview for the Gayt Episo Ever podst and said, “I thk for a lot of people, and pecially queer people when they watch the episo, they know om the very first flashback where Judy’s scribg the myth of Thomas and Ruby to Alanis that Thomas and Ruby were gay. Before gog further to the episo, ’s worth notg jt how Ham was tablished as a gay character, and how his “g out” was very much not an issue. Ham choos this moment to pile on by sayg, “Also… I am gay.
They were both gay and cid to marry each other to avoid persecutn. Acrdg to the Charlie Kelly terview on the Gayt Episo Ever podst, ’s “a way to kd of verbalize and activate this realizatn that she’s havg si herself, and that the people this town should have had a very long time ago. It’s so nicely done fact, ’s worth rememberg what other “gay episos” were like om the ss that me before .
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * great north gay *
” When Homer fally gets , he’s horrified and panics at the thought of a gay man who danced wh him.
Homer claims his distst isn't "bee he's gay, " but rather bee he's a "sneak" who didn't "let everyone know that's he's... His beg gay isn’t seen as negative, and isn’t played off as the punchle.
Om UCLA cema and media studi, as a gut on the Gayt Episo Ever podst, Homer monstrated a popular strategy ed ss at the time, which was to “have a protagonist who’s the dience surrogate who has some disfort wh homosexualy and then around to at the end, and giv…people who aren’t que sure where they stand wh an entry pot. There are even recent exampl televisn dog a ls extreme versn of this, such as “This Is Us, ” or “One Day at a Time, ” where a mother of urse accepts her gay dghter who recently me out, but later nfs to other characters, ’s still a b of an adjtment.