20 Gay Greek Gods

Contents:

• THREE GAYS OF THE CONDO
• HOMER THE GAY
• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• HOMER GAY FOUND 28 PEOPLE ILLOIS, TEXAS AND 18 OTHER STAT
• SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?

THREE GAYS OF THE CONDO

Homer then fets while havg Margaras wh the "Velvet Mafia" and asks Grady and Jul if they own a gay time mache (Grady's shoe closet) and tell Homer no but he is missg his date wh Marge. The character Grady is voiced by the openly gay edian/actor Stt Thompson, most famo for beg a member of the Canadian sketch edy troupe The Kids In The Hall. The SimpsonsCast & crewUser reviewsTriviaEpiso aired Feb 16, 1997TV-1423mAfter Marge beiends John, a gay store owner, Homer worri that his prence will have a negative effect on Bart's Marge beiends John, a gay store owner, Homer worri that his prence will have a negative effect on Bart's Marge beiends John, a gay store owner, Homer worri that his prence will have a negative effect on Bart's productn, box office & pany PhotosReview Homer's PhobiaThis is probably one of the bt episos the Simpsons have produced.

HOMER THE GAY

Homer the Gay Homer bankpts the fay once aga buy buyg a bra damaged horse stead of groceri and go on a rampage at a horse race g $100, 000 worth of damage and several aths. When the stunts are asked why they believe or spect that Homer is gay, they variably ce the followg le: "Homer himself had remarked-he liked men, and was known that he drank wh the younger men the Elks' Club-that he was not a marryg man"(126) For the sake of argument, and out of ference to the ncln of many of our stunts, if not to the current trends lerary theory, let suppose that Homer Barron is, or might be, homosexual-that he really lik men.

20 GAY GREEK GODS

Given the narrative amework of the story, we n only image-we are not privy to-the lonels and longg that Ey mt have felt to have killed a man and slept bi his yg rpse; yet we mt unrtake perhaps an equivalent imagative flight to prehend the nfn and tratn endured by Homer Barron, a gay man an age when homosexualy was virtually tantamount to necrophilia.

As Flkner no doubt knew, yellow was associated the 1890s-approximately the perd which the supposed urtship tak place-wh the Yellow Book, atheticism, and, directly, homosexualy. Ultimately, however, those who sist upon matag that Homer Barron is gay mt hang virtually their entire se upon the narrator's claim that Homer "lik men"and that he is not "a marryg man. If our nventn-bound narrator spected that Homer were gay, he would certaly have had more to say about the matter-his attentn would have shifted om Ey to Homer.

If the classroom rembl a mocracy, at least when to exegetil matters, then the other si-those who do not accept as plsible the proposn that Homer Barron is gay-serv equal time. Lastly, I will attempt to duce what our stunts' reads to assume that Homer is gay n tell about their acculturatn and their habs as rears, matters difficult to separate. "Jt as our stunts know that the e of the word "nigger" is not only a dig but actnable-and even those rare stanc where society perms s e, mt be set off wh quotatn marks-so they also know, whether they like or not, that stutns of power, pecially the media and ame, are now dog everythg their power to -stigmatize and normalize homosexualy.

HOMER GAY FOUND 28 PEOPLE ILLOIS, TEXAS AND 18 OTHER STAT

In this era of "g out"and "gay pri, " is no wonr that our stunts, particularly given their leralist approach to readg lerature, nclu on very snty evince that a sendary character a story by Flkner is or might be homosexual. In the popular culture nsumed by our stunts- movi, televisn shows, and bt-sellg novels-homosexualy is portrayed as prevalent and random; one of the lsons, addn to the tth that gays are as fully human as anybody else, seems to be that all kds of people whom you would least spect, bee they fy simplistic stereotyp, are fact homosexuals.

SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?

To nclu that Homer Barron is gay, or even to trouble ourselv wh his sexualy, amounts to renstutg "A Rose for Ey"acrdg to late-twentieth century iology, a procs which may some measure be unavoidable. 3) In his Degeneratn, Culture and the Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994), William Greensla refers to the "ercive " which homosexualy was scribed the texts of that era: "From the neti, homosexualy travelled through disurse a ercive .

This was particularly te wh the eighth season episo "Homer's Phobia, " which featured ma character Homer Simpson exprsg fear and objectn to the notn that son Bart might be gay. In the se of cidly unimagative Homer Simpson, they explored his sensivy toward an openly gay man and his fears that his only son might be "turng gay" through exposure.