'The Simpsons' landmark gay episo keeps the fay

Contents:

• ‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
• SIMPSONS GAY MARRIAGE EPISO SPARKS IRE
• 'SIMPSONS' ANIMAT GAY NUPTIALS, AND A DEBATE
• THE SIMPSONS (ALMOST) HAS S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE

‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY

And while ’s a historil moment for Smhers, ’s also a full-circle one for longtime seri wrer Rob LaZebnik, whose son, Johnny, spired Smhers’ big, gay g-out episo 2016. Of urse, Smhers — who fds himself thst to a globe-trottg, whirlwd romance wh Garber’s fashnista — was already fluenced by them both when he bted down his closet door 2016’s touchg Season 27 episo “Tom Colls, ” which was penned by Rob as an homage to his gay son. “So often, gay romanc are a subplot or allud to or shown some kd of montage or as a punchle.

And what I thk I was really exced about, wh this episo, we get to see — whout spoilg too much — the begng, middle and who knows how ends of a gay relatnship, of really gettg to the nty-grty of how gay people date, how they meet, what ’s like, ” he said. “I haven’t played a lot of gay characters, but every time I do , brgs back certa feelgs I had as a young actor where I uldn’t be gay.

"Gay and lbian upl e to Sprgfield to get married by Homer, and Patty Bouvier out of the closet. Soon, hundreds of gay and lbian upl e to Sprgfield.

SIMPSONS GAY MARRIAGE EPISO SPARKS IRE

Shortly afterwards, he marri every gay uple town. When there are no more gay upl town to marry, a money-hungry Homer puts up a sign sayg "Will marry anyone to anythg.

Marge rells through flashback ditns of Patty's homosexualy. Cartoon show The Simpsons has end months of speculatn by revealg the inty of s gay character - Marge's sister Patty Bouvier.

'SIMPSONS' ANIMAT GAY NUPTIALS, AND A DEBATE

Speculatn on the inty of the gay character had been fierce, wh fans gusg might be Mr Burns' voted sikick Waylon Smhers or one or both of Homer's sisters--law, while bookmakers had been takg bets. The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn weled the velopment, scribg as a "ray of light".

However, L Brent Bozell, print of the Parents Televisn Council, said: "At a time when the public mood is overwhelmgly agast gay marriage, any show that promot gay marriage is liberately buckg the public mood.

nservative groups Ameri, who acce of promotg gay marriage. SIMPSON performed dozens of gay marriag, and his wife MARGE's sister, PATTY.

THE SIMPSONS (ALMOST) HAS S FIRST GAY MARRIAGE

public mood is overwhelmgly agast gay marriage, any show that promot gay. 20 - In the ongog culture wars over whether gays should have the right to marry, an animated qutn reared s head on Sunday prime-time televisn: as go "The Simpsons, " do the natn go, too?

Bookmakers the Uned Stat and England were takg bets as to which character would be revealed as homosexual, and whether there would be a kiss -- a nod, perhaps, to the popular programmg gimmick of havg lbian characters lock lips durg sweeps perds like the current mostly, televisn experts, fans and advot for gay marriage mated over the larger signifince of the moment. "It's sayg to those who monize homosexualy, or what they ll the homosexual agenda, anythg om 'Lighten up' to 'Get out of town, "' said Marty Kaplan, associate an of the Universy of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communitn and host of a media show on the talk rad work Air Ameri.

"It sounds as though they're sayg that what the relig right lls 'the homosexualist agenda, ' as if were creepg Satanism, is: the people are your neighbors the Sprgfield that is Ameri. Brent Bozell III, print of the Parents Televisn Council, cricized "The Simpsons" for addrsg the issue of gay marriage, though he utned that he had not seen the episo. "At a time when the public mood is overwhelmgly agast gay marriage, any show that promot gay marriage is liberately buckg the public mood, " he said.