Jim Nabors, Gomer Pyle Star, Is Gay, Marri Partner of 38 Years - Us Weekly

Contents:

• HOMER GAY FOUND 28 PEOPLE ILLOIS, TEXAS AND 18 OTHER STAT
• SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?
• JIM NABORS, GOMER PYLE STAR, IS GAY, MARRI PARTNER OF 38 YEARS
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• COMIC BOOK GAY
• HOMER THE GAY
• THE GAY SONG

HOMER GAY FOUND 28 PEOPLE ILLOIS, TEXAS AND 18 OTHER STAT

“You guys don't have a gay time mache, do you?”. "Three Gays of the Condo" is the seventeenth episo of Season 14.

Homer at the gay nightclub Sprgfield.

SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?

While walkg home Homer se a newspaper benr and tak one which featur a classified advertisement for an open apartment the Gay District of Sprgfield. In the new apartment Homer mov wh two gay men named Grady and Jul and Homer starts the learn about gay culture and even tak the kids to his new home. Homer then fets while havg Margaras wh the "Velvet Mafia" and asks Grady and Jul if they own a gay time mache (Grady's shoe closet) and tell Homer no but he is missg his date wh Marge.

The character Grady is voiced by the openly gay edian/actor Stt Thompson, most famo for beg a member of the Canadian sketch edy troupe The Kids In The Hall. D'oh • 'Sce Me While I Miss the Sky • Three Gays of the Condo • Du, Where's My Ranch? In "Homer’s Phobia, " Waters plays a Simpsonized versn of himself: He’s a gay man named John who owns a kschy antique store.

An animated seri showsg a gay character was pecially novel. John spends the episo not only helpg Homer at least start to shed his homophobia but also acquatg the Simpsons fay — and the adolcent-filled dience — wh gay culture.

JIM NABORS, GOMER PYLE STAR, IS GAY, MARRI PARTNER OF 38 YEARS

"The ia was that this character was troducg gay life to a happy home that knew nothg about , " Waters said.

In 1971, on the fifth episo of the first season of CBS’s All the Fay, Ameri’s favore bigot Archie Bunker has a mi-existential crisis after learng that his burly, ex-athlete drkg buddy is gay. The short-lived ABC s The Corner Bar buted a year later and featured Vcent Schiavelli as a set signer who’s gay.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

And by the late ’70s, Billy Crystal was starrg on ABC’s Soap as Jodie Dallas, a gay man who directs TV mercials. More and more programs soon began tacklg homosexualy, ually one short arc at a time.

COMIC BOOK GAY

When two gay characters were shown together bed on the drama Thirtysomethg 1989, ABC reportedly lost $1. Five years after that, ABC felt the need to move the start time of a Roseanne episo centered on a gay weddg om s 8 p.

HOMER THE GAY

An ABC spokwoman claimed that the shift was due to the episo’s "adult humor" and "not the ia of the gay weddg.

As Stephen Tropiano, thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on TV, put : "You were very, very limed about what you uld show.

"It was unrstood that he’s gay, " Weste said. The first, pched by wrer Gee Meyer, was lled "Bart the Homo" and foced on other characters qutng Bart’s sexualy. " In other words, Homer as homophobic ignoram wouldn’t be a stretch.

THE GAY SONG

After all, back then a s dience didn’t often see suburbia through the ey of a gay man. Homer particular is charmed, until Marge explas to her nse hband that John is gay.

The problem isn’t that John is gay, he reasons, ’s that he’s a sneak.

"I like my beer ld, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fuh-lamg, " he huffs before refg to jo his fay for a day out wh John, who brgs the Simpsons to his world by takg them on a sordid celebry tour of Sprgfield. "There’s only two kd of guys who wear those shirts: gay guys and big, fat party animals, " says Homer. " When John asks Homer what he’s got agast gay people, the bt he n e up wh is that they aren’t "ual" and that "they ed all our bt nam like Bce, and Lance, and Julian.

What he don’t realize is that ’s a gay steel l. "To see that was really, really funny, " said Waters, whose hometown of Baltimore once was home to a thrivg steel l, "bee steelworkers are ually not stereotyped as gay.

"Now, if every gay man uld jt do the same, you’d be set. ’" But on "Homer’s Phobia, " the shownners were sent back three pag ntag dozens of not that Oakley said ncerned "every sgle thg the episo that had to do wh beg gay or the word ‘gay.

In sprg 1998, after reportedly askg DeGener to foc ls on gay issu, ABC ncelled Ellen.

The seri, about the iendship between a gay man and a straight woman, was a h.