When filmmaker John Waters played a gay character on The Simpsons, his episo eventually end up breakg down barriers for LGBTQ+ reprentatn.
Contents:
- ‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
- GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW JOHN WATERS HELPED ‘THE SIMPSONS’ GET LGBT REPRENTATN RIGHT
- SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?
‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
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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.
GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW JOHN WATERS HELPED ‘THE SIMPSONS’ GET LGBT REPRENTATN RIGHT
"They thk they're better than jt bee their performance reviews reflect that fact..." - Lenny Flamg Moe is the eleventh episo of Season 22. Smhers helps Moe turn his tavern to a popular gay bar, but later on Smhers gets offend at Moe for pretendg to be gay. Meanwhile... * lgbt simpsons episodes *
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.
SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?
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.