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• GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW JOHN WATERS HELPED ‘THE SIMPSONS’ GET LGBT REPRENTATN RIGHT
• THREE GAYS OF THE CONDO
• THREE GAYS OF THE CONDO

GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW JOHN WATERS HELPED ‘THE SIMPSONS’ GET LGBT REPRENTATN RIGHT

While John Waters famoly starred a groundbreakg gay Simpsons episo, that was not the first time that the show featured an LGBTQ+ storyle. While The Simpsons famoly featured John Waters a landmark episo that addrsed homophobia, the animated fay s’s first pictn of LGBTQ+ characters arrived a lot earlier.

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The show also directly addrsed social ills like homophobia, as The Simpsons season 8, episo 15, “Homer’s Phobia, ” although this was not the first time the seri touched on LGBTQ+ them. Homer’s Assistant Karl Gave The Simpsons Its First Gay Hero.

Make no mistake, John Waters’ Simpsons episo was a groundbreakg moment for gay reprentatn on televisn. Karl’s orientatn is never explicly addrsed and, when prsed on the matter, seri -creator Matt Groeng never nfirmed that the character was gay. A selfls, kd character who helped Homer ga nfince and took the fall for Homer's mistak — even gettg fired his stead — Karl is arguably one of televisn’s earlit gay hero.

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The inic gay actor and playwright Harvey Fierste played Karl the Simpsons episo “Simpson and Delilah. Th, Fierste created one of the earlit unambiguoly posive pictns of gay life on mastream Amerin televisn.

Fierste had the opportuny to return to The Simpsons season 14, episo 17, “Three Gays of the Condo. ” The actor opted not to return for a later episo, sayg the “script was a lot of very clever gay jok, and there jt wasn't that Simpsons twist.

” While “Three Gays of the Condo” was a cril succs, the episo didn’t attempt the sort of movg drama that mak “Simpson and Delilah” an early-season standout.

The Simpsons’ First Gay Character Is An Unr-Appreciated In. It would be a long while before The Simpsons treated a gay character wh as much digny as Karl sce the show’s e-a-mute edy ma s characters creasgly zanier and more over-the-top. Prentg a gay character as a hero 1990 was a darg cisn, and pictg a kiss between two men onscreen was outright brazen, but The Simpsons opted to take the risks to make televisn history In the procs, The Simpsons helped her an era of creased visibily for gay characters onscreen.

Cult in John Waters was the first openly gay character on The Simpsons, and the show's treatment of him signaled a tidal shift Amerin TV. When a character was referred to as gay, the figure qutn almost always played as tragic or, more often, herently il. The Simpsons mocked almost everythg (except Scientology) s Goln Age, but unlike most ss of the time, the seri didn’t treat s first openly gay character as a walkg joke.

Beg gay was, and of self, seen as a punchle even for progrsive televisn of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, and few shows were terted challengg this. However, the show was still subject to work censorship and, although the star of Ellen me out as a lbian two months later, “Homer’s Phobia” was one of the first attempts to break down the visible barrier faced by gay characters. While no one explicly stated that any characters were to be stereotyped, was all-but-unheard of for a character like John, who was picted as charmg, lm, and genial, to be gay.

The Simpsons rarely ma small-town Sprgfielrs the villas of the story, but this stance, turng Homer to the bad guy led Amerin dienc to intify wh a sweet, likable character who happened to be gay over the regnizable s dad they were ually expected to love and see as herently harmls spe his prejudice. However, “Homer’s Phobia” picked Waters not bee of his fame but bee his public image reprented the perfect tersectn between all-Amerin manners and the more outre, unfaiar aspects of queer culture, mp, and the gay experience. Castg Waters as a level-head, kd, and unrstandg face of the LGBTQ+ muny allowed The Simpsons to celebrate mp, queer culture, and outsir art whout makg the character himself a stereotype or offensive riture of what was perceived as “gay.

In ntrast, anyone unfaiar wh the director’s ovre got a funny, self-pretg look to LGBTQ+ culture a story where beg gay was neher a joke to lghed at, or an odd spectacle to be leered and jeered at.

Waters had a sense of humor about John and ma him a funny figure whout treatg his gayns self as a joke.

The fact that his character The Simpsons was both mp and ol pared to Homer and pany’s “normal” and nrotic reactn to him was one of televisn’s first attempts to see homophobia as the exceptn and not the norm. 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 I like my beer ld, my TV loud, displays a homophobic attu towards a new iend of the is a classic wrers make fantastic e of Homer and Bart as they negotiate the subjects of sexualy and bigotry a hilar way thanks to a certa gut viewers thk John is wrten too stereotypilly effemate as a gay man, but is a fact of life that many gay men (not all) display effemate characteristics. In fact, you would swear the wrers had based John on a gay iend of me such is the closens personaly tras!