'Fay Guy' addrs s stance on phasg out "gay jok"

Contents:

• ‘FAY GUY’ CHARACTER BCE OUT AS GAY AND MARRI HIS BOYIEND NEW EPISO
• FAY GUY REVERSED S STANCE ON 'GAY JOK'. WHY?
• SHOULD FAY GUY 'PHASE OUT' GAY JOK?
• FAY GUY IS GETTG RID OF GAY JOK—FALLY
• GAY GUY OM FAY GUY
• IS BRIAN GAY TOO? ( SOMETIM HE HAS HIS MOMENTS)
• FAY GUY CHARACTER OUT AS GAY AND MARRI HIS BOYIEND
• ‘FAY GUY’ ADDRS S STANCE ON PHASG OUT “GAY JOK”
• IS STEWIE GAY? ‘FAY GUY’ FALLY ADDRS HIS SEXUALY (AND THAT ACCENT!)
• FAY GAY
• FAY GAY

‘FAY GUY’ CHARACTER BCE OUT AS GAY AND MARRI HIS BOYIEND NEW EPISO

Fay Guy character Bce has e out as gay the show’s 19th season durg an episo where he marri his boyiend. Bce begs datg Meg Griff (spe her fay statg that he is “obvly gay”) the latt season of the show, wh Bce’s anti-LGBT+ parents wantg him to settle down wh a woman, prsurg him to bee engaged to Meg. Another tone last Sunday: Bce fally g out as gay.

“After ALL the years Bce has FINALLY told his parents that he was Gay.

After ALL the years Bce has FINALLY told his parents that he was Gay. Executive producers Rich Appel and Alec Sulk expand on a Peter Griff le the episo ‘Tmp Guy’ — where the character said “we’ve been tryg to phase out the gay stuff” — which was seemgly spoken on behalf of the show. For better or worse, this junk food of the televisual world has bee a larger part of my life than I ever is why I paid attentn when, last year, the January 2019 episo “Tmp Guy” (an tertg episo and of self, sce took on the Tmp admistratn and featured Meg Griff as a victim of sexual asslt on the print’s part), the show announced s tentn to stop rortg to “gay jok”.

FAY GUY REVERSED S STANCE ON 'GAY JOK'. WHY?

It started wh a fictnal Donald Tmp tellg Peter: “Many children have learned their favoure Jewish, black, and gay jok by watchg your show over the years”, to which Peter replied: “In fairns, we’ve been tryg to phase out the gay stuff. ”This moment was great many ways: the show acknowledged s rponsibily shapg young viewers’ mds, Peter attempted to flect the cricism wh a ltle touch of meta humour – a Fay Guy hallmark – and we were all left lookg forward to a gay-joke-ee future. So ’s not exactly surprisg that, a recent season 18 episo, Fay Guy appeared to do a plete 180 by reversg s stance on so-lled “gay jok” “Disney’s The Reboot”, the episo se Peter and his fay tryg to fd a new inty for their show.

The sequence isn’t so homophobic that mak you want to throw your remote to your TV screen (though by all means, feel ee), but ’s still kd of “meh”. If you’re gog to joke about sexualy, do properly, and maybe make sure your quip packs enough of a punch to jtify s own existence – otherwise, you’re jt jokg about beg gay for the sake of this sequence, Peter Griff go back to the foc group helpg him craft a Fay Guy reboot, at which pot someone asks him: “I thought I read you guys were phasg out gay jok?

It’s almost self-pretn on the show’s wrers’ part – we thought we uld do whout “gay jok”, but turns out we jt like them too much, silly ! Bt edy shows on NetflixShow all 10Peter Griff’s sexualy is a recurrg theme on Fay Guy, where ’s regularly implied that Peter, a middle-aged married man the fictnal cy of Quahog the (real) state of Rho Island, might be gay. The “Peter is gay” jok are never the most cisive the seri, and ankly, you uld remove them whout losg out.

SHOULD FAY GUY 'PHASE OUT' GAY JOK?

But if the pot of your quip is the very ncept that someone might be gay, one might argue that your wrg is gettg kd of aforementned, Fay Guy is currently s 18th season.

If Fay Guy’s mment to “irreverence” (sometim, “irreverence” is jt another word for “sensivy”) tak precence over s qut for relevance, then the show’s future will be jeopardised, and rightly the show would specifilly highlight the topic of “gay jok” this manner before dog a public about-face is jt bizarre.

FAY GUY IS GETTG RID OF GAY JOK—FALLY

How hard n possibly be to shelve the “Peter is gay” punchle once and for all?

Image source, FOXImage ptn, Stewie has often been the butt of gay jok on Fay GuyFay Guy is known for s polilly rrect humour, but now the team behd the show are makg some of the animated edy seri are ed to s often distasteful humour.

Another, Quagmire, is ed as a platform for the many referenc to rape or sexual durg the show's 17-season n, Stewie, the Griff fay baby, has been h wh quips about beg appears that the jok targeted at the LGBT muny are on the way Sunday's episo, Peter Griff, who is voiced by the show's creator Seth MacFarlane, was seen tellg a rtoon Print Tmp that the show was tryg to "phase out" gay jok. "Many children have learned their favoure Jewish, black, and gay jok by watchg your show over the years, " the animated print tells Peter.

GAY GUY OM FAY GUY

"In fairns, we've been tryg to phase out the gay stuff, " Peter repli.

IS BRIAN GAY TOO? ( SOMETIM HE HAS HIS MOMENTS)

"I'm gay, my boyiend and I watch Fay Guy, and we lgh at the gay jok as much as we lgh at any of the jok, " wrote viewer Zell on Twter. "I never felt like the gay jok were at Stewie's expense, but rather an evolutn of the character, " add Rhagana. "However, some people thk Fay Guy is need of change, cludg Nick Duffy, the current affairs edor of Pk News, who says is important to reflect a more morn view of homosexualy the show.

"Fay Guy has been very much reliant on stereotyp of predatory gay men, " he tells BBC News.

FAY GUY CHARACTER OUT AS GAY AND MARRI HIS BOYIEND

"And 's not jt gay people specifilly, but before Calyn Jenner me out as transgenr, they ma heavy quips about her genr inty, which they've been cricised for before. "I'm gay and I don't have any problem wh Fay Guy or anyone else tellg gay jok as long as they're funny.

"He disagre wh the ia that addg diverse wrers to the mix would improve Fay Guy's gay jok and says a good joke is a good joke regardls of who wrote . "Personally I thk 's bbish to say that gay jok have to be wrten by gay people. Do that mean gay people n't wre jok about straight people?

‘FAY GUY’ ADDRS S STANCE ON PHASG OUT “GAY JOK”

The wrers have repeatedly ma jok about him beg secretly ashamed of his homosexual tennci, and 2003 was cheeky and subversive. Stewie is obvly mp gay, but gay nohels, or also Bisexual. I don't thk they've ma nearly as many gay jok wh Chris, so I'll leave him off the list.

Brian is most likely not gay, but the latt season he dat a transwoman, and I'm not sure if they ever discs her havg bottom surgery. This don't make Brian gay, but do illtrate that the wrers unrstand that the social mor of society have changed sce 1999.

IS STEWIE GAY? ‘FAY GUY’ FALLY ADDRS HIS SEXUALY (AND THAT ACCENT!)

At this pot, the "X character is secretly gay and ashamed" joke is beyond tired. Gay dienc exist. Straight dienc who don't re about gay relatnships also exist.

Like, let the characters be gay. Do somethg that actually brave and subversive meangfully advanc your characters and attempts to evolve the seri stead of leang agast the fox logo flippg a nickel sayg "Geez, those homos sure are weird wh their neck srv and lisps". IASIP cid that Mac n be gay, and was an amazg choice bee he was a lapsed tholic who still felt relig guilt and actually epened his character.

FAY GAY

Fay Guy uld have beaten them to the punch by a , but stead we're gonna get another seasons worth of "Peter is secretely homosexual and that's bad and weird. And they choose to repeatedly discs Peter's reprsed homosexualy such a way that 's bee a noteworthy character tra, and I'd bet a shy piece of pper that you uld fd at least one "Peter is gay" joke per season datg back to '99. EDIT: It's entirely possible to voke stereotyp and meangfully discs our ias of what gay men are like - I know this bee the Simpson's episo "Homer's Phobia" is about that.

FAY GAY

If you n't see the difference between Bce, and John - both stereotypilly gay characters, d wh many of the same quali - then I have no meangful put to offer you. In an episo of Fay Guy on Sunday, protagonist Peter Griff remarked that the long-nng seri is “tryg to phase out gay jok. Dpe creator and star Seth MacFarlane’s outspoken support for gay rights, the program has equently dabbled homophobia and transphobia.