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THE SIMPSONS SEASON 8: INSANY PEPPERS AND GAY STEEL MILLS
“Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! I danced wh a gay! Marge, Lisa, promise me you won't tell anyone. Promise me!” ―Homer, after disverg John's sexual orientatn "Homer's Phobia" is the fifteenth episo of Season 8. Homer mak iends wh John, a kschy antiqu store aler... * bart gay steel mill *
When Homer was ncerned that Bart was homosexual, he took Bart to a steel l to show him an example of real men at hard work.
" a sg-song, stereotypilly effemate fashn, and Homer saw that all the workers the plant were openly homosexual. Rose then pulled a cha which ma mic play and a dis ball scend om the ceilg, and all the workers started dancg wh each other, turng the steel l to a gay nightclub, lled "The Anvil.
I danced wh a gay! However, when Marge tells Homer that John is a homosexual, Homer eaks out and, fearg that his son will emulate John, tak Bart on a misguid journey to make his son heterosexual. When Marge rms Homer that John don't have a wife and is a homosexual, he is horrified.
The steel l workers are gay men who works at the Ajax Steel Mill. The all waved "Hello!" to Homer and Bart. Rose told them that the workers worked hard and played hard. Then they started dancg wh each other. Homer then ran away om the l, takg Bart wh him. Episo – "Homer's... * bart gay steel mill *
Bart starts wearg Hawaiian shirts, dancg women's wigs and eatg cupk wh strawberry icg stead of cholate icg; which mak Homer worry that Bart might be gay.
Even as substantial legal and social victori are beg celebrated wh the gay rights movement, much of workg-class Ameri still exists outsi the curre... * bart gay steel mill *
Homer tak Bart to a steel l to revel a manly environment; however, the entire workforce is gay, which Homer learns when the steel l turns to a gay dis durg breaks. Bart is nfed until Lisa explas Homer thks that Bart is gay. "Homer's Phobia" was the show's first episo to revolve entirely around gay them and received a posive cril rponse both for s humor and anti-homophobia msage.
The seri ma several referenc to homosexualy before the episo aired. However, "Homer's Phobia" was the first episo to revolve entirely around homosexual them. Two later episos that explored LGBT issu were "Three Gays of the Condo" and "There's Somethg About Marryg", both of which have been pared unfavorably to this episo, as "Three Gays...
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" rorted to offensive stereotyp of homosexual men (to the pot that Harvey Fierste, who origally was supposed to gut star that episo, refed to e back for that episo) and "There's Somethg About Marryg" did a poor job of lampoong same-sex marriage and had unfortunate implitns and stereotyp about the transgenred (even though Patty's fiancee was a man cross-drsg as a woman rather than an actual transman or transwoman).
" In the book Leavg Sprgfield, Matthew Henry praised the episo's criqug of "the most mon misnceptn about homosexualy: namely that gayns is somehow ntag", as well as s other them. Cathare Lumby of the Universy of Sydney ced the episo as an example of good satire as "managed to explore a lot of [homosexual] issu que a ep way [... ] whout beg overtly polil", which she claimed, along wh the episo's humor, ma s anti-homophobia msage more succsful than that of other gay-themed shows like Queer as Folk.
" There are also viewers today who, while appldg the show for s posive msag about homosexualy and acceptance (as well as lampoong toxic masculy), still hate the episo for g male homosexual stereotyp jt to prove their pot. In June 2003, Igor Smykov sued the Rsian televisn channel REN TV on claims that The Simpsons, along wh Fay Guy, were "morally generate and promoted dgs, vlence and homosexualy".