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While dog rearch for a ep-dive to The Simpsons episo “Three Gays of the Condo, ” Mackie tried to figure out who the show first implied was gay via some sort of queer Simpsons supercut. ”The rult, “Smhers & Beyond: Every LGBT Joke on The Simpsons Ever, ” is a two hour-long journey through every gay joke, character, plot, and ference the show’s first 32 seasons. And wh some unexpected twists and turns ncerng LGBTQ parse through three s of gay and trans jok — rangg om the unexpectedly affirmg to the downright transphobic — I spoke to a few queer Simpsons scholars to take a measure of jt how far we’ve e sce viewers were first troduced to the rints of Sprgfield, did you first notice about the changg nature of the jok through the years?

Drew Mackie (Cohost of Gayt Episo Ever; creator of "Smhers & Beyond: Every LGBT Joke on The Simpsons Ever"): It was tertg seeg the pot at which they cid that Smhers is gay. At first, the joke is that Smhers is a weirdo who's sexually attracted to Mr Burns, and he's not gay.

And then they start to brg other elements of gay stereotyp his character, and he evolv om beg like Burns-sexual to, not a healthy gay person, but a gay person. The ia of Smhers beg a weirdo was probably the first thg I picked up Gilbert (Cohost of Talkg Simpsons): What stck me at first was seeg a timele of Amerin perceptns towards queer issu epen and change, as well as seeg the creators of the show self grow their unrstandg of gay issu. I noticed that simply the ia of a gay man like Smhers appearg on screen and existg was a joke, and by now, the ia that his character uld be the closet seems Bailey (Journalist): A lot of jok the ‘90s are the expected “gay panic” jok, specifilly the joke of nstantly dg Homer as gay a goofy way — havg people be worried about beg perceived as gay, havg Bart be abed or bullied bee people perceive him to be gay, along wh Mart Prce and Millhoe.

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“Homer’s Phobia” (wh special gut John Waters) is this watershed episo where a gay person is allowed to be human for the first time. But even that episo, there’s still a b of gay panic bee Homer is worried about Bart beg are some characters allowed to "e out" (Patty, Smhers) while others rema the closet?

Jonah Flynn (Cofounr of “No Homers Club”): Some of the gay-d characters are jt peripheral characters who appear for maybe 5-10 sends at a time and jt have never had the spotlight to velop beyond that (for example, the choreographer “Lisa the Bety Queen” or the origal actor who played Fallout Boy “Three Men and a Comic Book”). Homer’s assistant Karl Season 2’s “Simpson and Delilah” is voiced by Harvey Fierste and kiss Homer, but is never explicly stated to be gay.

In 1990, profsnal environments weren’t as acceptg and open towards gay people.

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That guy that is soooo gay he trots around wh his hands hangg at his si like a t-rex and when somethg exc them they let out a very feme roar." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * soooo gay *

Largo, who was d as gay for about 20 years, gradually beme one of the show’s openly gay characters. He didn’t have a big g-out moment, but the past few years he’s seen wh other gay characters, openly dat men, and is even shown a long-term imperfect relatnship wh another man.

It’s nice to see a peripheral gay character flhed out and treated like a real person, rather than an exaggerated gay stereotype or punchle. I thk ’s a wrg problem bee at some pot, orr to make those jok about Smhers, you have to imply that everyone knows he's gay.

So much of the gay humor was given to him that didn’t seem necsary to “out” him, whereas Patty had been much more “closeted. And you n see that the humor bee so many of the jok are llbacks to growg up the ‘ To my knowledge, there has never been an out gay wrer on the show’s staff at any pot the show’s history, at least not on the permanent wrg staff. I thk this is fely one of the reasons the show’s queer characters have often flted to one-note stereotypil reprentatns, and why took so long for the show to feature any out gay characters.

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When you look at the bt and most multi-dimensnal gay characters on the show, most of them were voiced by actual gay people who really helped rm the character.

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I've noticed that many of the jok are ncerned wh transns rather than gayns and often the two blur In the first of the show, Bart is shown wearg women’s wigs, high heels, cheerlear outfs, and Marge’s drs. Gilbert: That ntued nflatn of transns wh cis homosexual men, particular, was pretty shockg to me when watchg Drew's pilatn.

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Sadly, I thk that for the straight guy wrg staff who are mostly left-of-center, they jt saw gay and trans suatns as terchangeable, and the same go for nflatg drag and transns. Most media did that back then — even myself as a gay man, I didn't know any openly trans people until I moved to the Bay Area 2006, and I thank those iends for teachg me so much.

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And of urse there’s Patty’s arc where she out as gay and gets married durg that season.

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