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Is there any show more perfectly sued for a gay '90s romp than Frasier? But by the time the show was s fal season 2004, TV shows had learned how to have a gay old time.

I love those shows, but 's disappotg how poorly they age -- the characters are clearly homophobic, regardg queerns as weird at bt and a threat at worst. After seeg Mil panic and ll gay people abnormal, I found myself wishg Murphy Brown had been better than that.

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Frasier, on the other hand, probably aired more affirmg gay episos than any other primetime show until Ellen and Will & Grace.

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It started wh a 1994 episo entled "The Matchmaker, " which Frasier's gay boss thks they're on a date.

Even by today's standards, 's a pretty posive pictn of a gay character -- there's no ht of hostily om Frasier, asi om the awkwardns about havg been on a date wh his boss. Given how other shows of the time prented homosexualy as a crisis, that this episo don't treat like a big al is self a big al.

There was John Waters' aspiratnal character on The Simpsons, a popular gay gut character on Married wh Children, and South Park's Big Gay Al (who is plited and problematic, I know). In 1998, Frasier aired an episo lled "The Ski Lodge" which nobody seems particularly troubled when a gay character pursu Nil. ) Post-Ellen, TV started to make queer storyl more mastream, wh gay characters beg so monplace that there was no one way they were picted.

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" In that one, Mart is urted by a gay man, and queerns is more out the open than ever. In the end, he fds that he has more mon than he thought wh the gay man.

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