Why Dancg Was So Important at the Stonewall Inn, New York's Newly-Landmarked Gay Bar

Contents:

• NOLTE: 11-YEAR-OLD ‘DRAG QUEEN’ DANC FOR DOLLAR BILLS GAY BAR
• WHY DANCG WAS SO IMPORTANT AT THE STONEWALL INN, NEW YORK'S NEWLY-LANDMARKED GAY BAR
• WHEN THE BOY DRAG DANCED AT THE GAY BAR AND THE GAY MUNY DID NOT PROTT
• ‘FAY GUY’ REVEALS SHOCKG TTH BEHD STEWIE’S ACCENT (AND HIS SEXUALY)SPOILER ALERTTHE WRER OF SUNDAY NIGHT’S HUGE EPISO TAK SI THAT ACCENT TWIST, AND GO EP TO HOW AND WHY THE SHOW FALLY EXPLORED WHETHER STEWIE IS GAY. (WARNG: SPOILERS!)KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 19, 2018 12:34PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 18, 2018 9:30PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTEVERYTHG YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT STEWIE GRIFF IS WRONG. ALL THIS TIME, HE’S BEEN PRETENDG TO BE SOMEONE HE’S NOT. NOT THAT FAY GUY’S RINT SMARM FACTORY ISN’T MOST LIKELY GAY. THAT IS STILL VERY MUCH TE, AND THE 1-YEAR-OLD’S UNRSTANDABLY PLITED SEXUALY WAS ACKNOWLEDGED DIRECTLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SUNDAY NIGHT’S LANDMARK EPISO “SEND STEWIE, PLEASE”—ALSO THE FIRST TIME FOX’S LONG-NNG SERI AIRED WHOUT MERCIAL TERPTN. NO, THE SE IS THAT THE SARDONIC TODDLER HAS BEEN FAKG THAT BRISH ACCENT—THE TALYST FOR HIS NSCENSN, THE TRA THAT HAS FED HIS ENTIRE ATHETIC—THIS WHOLE TIME. STEWIE’S REAL VOICE, TURNS OUT, SOUNDS A LOT LS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE DOG HIS BT BRISH ACCENT THAN JT SOUNDS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE. DON’T BE NFED. UNLIKE STEWIE’S SEXUALY, WHICH HAS BEEN A NNG JOKE LONG ENOUGH THAT FANS HAVE MA SUPERCUTS OF JOK REFERENCG , THIS WASN’T A REVELATN THAT HAS BEEN BREWG THE MDS OF THE FAY GUY CREATIVE TEAM OM THE START. AS GARY JATI, WHO WROTE THE EPISO AND HAS BEEN A PRODUCER AND WRER FOR THE SERI SCE 1999, TELLS THE DAILY BEAST, “WE LERALLY JT CID … IT WASN’T ANYTHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY FORM.”AND, JATI SAYS, DON’T EXPECT ANYONE ELSE TO LEARN STEWIE’S SECRET ANYTIME SOON. WE SAW AT THE END OF THE EPISO JT HOW FAR THE DIABOLIL YOUNGT GRIFF WOULD GO TO MAKE SURE THE TTH DON’T GET OUT.THE EPISO TAK PLACE THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF A THERAPY SSN STEWIE IS FORCED TO ATTEND AFTER SHOVG A CLASSMATE. IT’S A 30-MUTE WDOW TO HIS MD, SECURI, AND PLITED INTY AS HE VERBALLY SPARS WH DR. CORNELI PRCHFIELD, VOICED BY SIR IAN MCKELLEN, AN OLR GAY BRISH MAN WHO TURNS OUT TO BE BOTH THE PERFECT FOIL AND TALYST FOR A PROJECT FOR STEWIE.ESPECIALLY IF YOU WATCHED THE EPISO HAVG BEEN TIPPED TO THE FACT THAT STEWIE’S THLY VEILED SEXUALY WOULD BE ADDRSED, THE SUNDAY-BNCH--CHELSEA’S WORTH OF POP CULTURE REFERENC JATI SCRIPTED ARE A HOOT, OM HIS PLITED FEELGS ABOUT BETHENNY FRANKEL, TO HIS LTG OVER GRANT GT’S INSTAGRAM, AND EVEN ONE CHEEKY QUIP ABOUT JATI’S OWN HBAND, FASHN POLICE HOST AND REALY TV STAR BRAD GORKI. THERE’S A JAW-DROPPG MONOLOGUE, TOO, WHICH STEWIE DRS DOWN DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER. IT IS SO PACKED OF HYPER-SPECIFIC TAILS RELATG TO PRSURE, SHAME, AND ELISM GAY CULTURE THAT WE ULDN’T BELIEVE WE WERE WATCHG ON FAY GUY. DO STEWIE END UP G OUT? NO. THAT “WOULD BE A SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG ,” JATI SAYS, THAN THE DIRECTN THE EPISO TAK: ATTEMPTG TO UNRSTAND THE JOURNEY THAT STEWIE STILL NEEDS TO GO ON. POIGNANTLY TE TO LIFE, ’S ONE THAT MIGHT BE FULL OF REPRSN, SELF-LOATHG, AND NIAL, AS HE BATS THE TENSN BETWEEN HIS SIRE TO F WH MATAG HIS FABRITED PERSONALY (AND ACCENT) TO, IF HE’S GOG TO BE DIFFERENT, AT LEAST FEEL SUPERR. SO NOW THAT THE EPISO HAS AIRED, WE CHATTED MORE WH JATI, WHO HAS ALSO SERVED AS A PRODUCER AND WRER ON WILL & GRACE, ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE EPISO, WHY HE DON’T WANT TO TAKE STEWIE OUT OF THE CLOSET ENTIRELY, THE ACCENT TWIST, AND THAT CREDIBLY DARK ENDG. AT WHAT POT DID THE CREATIVE TEAM CI THAT THE ACCENT WAS AN AFFECTATN AND NOT STEWIE’S REAL VOICE? IS A TWIST THAT’S BEEN BREWG FOR A WHILE? WE LERALLY JT CID . “WHAT IF STEWIE’S ACCENT IS FAKE?” “OK, THAT ULD BE SOMETHG…” IT WASN’T SOMETHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY SHAPE OR FORM. IT WAS JT SPONTANEO. WILL BE REVISED THE FUTURE?I DON’T THK WILL BE, AND I DON’T THK SHOULD BE REVISED. HE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO HI . WE’VE SEEN STEWIE DO A LOT OF DASTARDLY THGS THE URSE OF THE 16 SEASONS THIS SHOW’S BEEN ON THE AIR. HE’S NEVER HAD RAMIFITNS FOR . AND NOW HE HAS TO DO SOMETHG TO PROTECT HIS SECRET. THIS MAN IS SAYG TO HIM, “YOU WILL REGRET THIS ONE DAY.” STEWIE’S HAVG PLEX FEELGS ABOUT SOMETHG HORRIBLE THAT HE DID, AND WHAT HE WILL BE WILLG TO DO TO PROTECT . I THK THAT’S BT LEFT NOT REVISED. IT’S TERTG THAT THE FAKE ACCENT WAS REVEALED THIS EPISO BEE THERE’S SOME REAL RELATABLE GAY PSYCHOLOGY GOG ON THERE. PUTTG ON THE ARTIFICE OF A HEIGHTENED PERSONALY BEE YOU ALREADY FEEL LIKE YOU DON’T F . (LGHS) Y. YEAH, I GUS ’S ALWAYS JT TRYG TO FD MY WAY TO SOMETHG SO THAT ’S TTHFUL, AND ’S TTHFUL FOR STEWIE. THE IA THAT HE NOT ONLY GRAPPL WH HIS SEXUALY, BUT ON TOP OF THAT HE IS EXTRAORDARILY TELLIGENT. HIS TELLIGENCE SETS HIM APART OM EVERYBODY THAT HE TO NTACT WH. THAT’S A VERY AN ISOLATG THG, THE WAY THAT WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT, ’S VERY ISOLATG TO FEEL LIKE YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE A SEA OF EVERYONE BEG THE SAME. BUT THEN AT THE SAME TIME, THERE’S SOMETHG ATTRACTIVE ABOUT BEG DIFFERENT. I THK WHAT STEWIE’S FACED WH IS THAT YOU N BE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE. THE PULL OF, BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE THOSE PEOPLE. WHAT DO HE WANT? I THK THAT A LOT OF GAY PEOPLE N ALSO INTIFY WH THAT. “I DON’T FEEL LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE THGS THAT MAKE ME ME, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE THEM. WHY N’T I HAVE BOTH?”THERE’S AN EMOTNAL TELLECT GOG ON, WHERE STEWIE’S HYPER-SELF-AWARE THAT THGS HE’S SAYG MIGHT BE MISNSTED FOR G OUT AS GAY. WHAT’S BEHD THAT AWARENS, THAT HIS BEHAVR AND PERSONALY SIGNALS AS GAYNS, AND HIS SECURY?STEWIE’S EXTREMELY TELLIGENT. WHEN HE WALKS TO THE ROOM, WH A SEND HE INTIFI THAT THERAPIST AS GAY. AND THE WAY HE ACKNOWLEDG THAT IS WHEN HE SAYS TO HIM THAT THIS ISN’T A G OUT SSN AND I’M SURE YOU LICK YOUR CHOMPS EVERY TIME YOU GET ONE OF THOSE. BUT I THK THAT’S ALSO STEWIE’S WAY OF BRGG UP THE SUBJECT, YOU KNOW? “I’M NOT BEG FENSIVE, BUT…” I THK HE’S SEEG AN OPPORTUNY TO SAY, “THIS ISN’T EASY. WHAT YOU THK THIS IS GOG TO BE, ’S NOT. IT’S NOT AS ACTUALIZED.” OBVLY THAT’S VERY ASTUTE FOR A ONE-YEAR-OLD TO BE GRAPPLG ON THAT LEVEL. BUT HE MENTNS TO DIFFE . THAT MONOLOGUE WHICH HE PLETELY EVISCERAT DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER HAS SOME REALLY SPECIFIC TAILS THAT YOU ALMOST HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE GAY MUNY TO UNRSTAND THE MUTIAE OF.VERY SPECIFIC. I KNOW! I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD END UP BEG SO LONG. MY FEELG WAS THAT I WAS JT GOG TO WRE THIS SANELY LONG AND LET REACH S LOGIL NCLN. I LET GO HOW I FELT NEED TO GO, THE LENGTH NEED TO GO ORR TO BE WHAT I WANTED TO BE. I THOUGHT WE WOULD ED OR TRIM LATER ON. BUT AS YOU SAID, ’S SO SPECIFIC. I GET TO MUTIAE EVEN WH THE GAY MUNY, SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC. BUT I THK THAT SPECIFICY IS ALSO WHAT GIV A CERTA UNIVERSALY, BEE EVEN IF YOU DON’T GET ALL THE REFERENC YOU UNRSTAND WHAT THEY MEAN. OBVLY THE AGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DR. PRCHFIELD AND HIS YOUNGER PARTNER IS MUCH BIGGER THAN BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR HBAND, BRAD. BUT YOU ARE OLR THAN YOUR HBAND, AND I WONR IF THERE WAS ANYTHG THARTIC YOU WERE AIRG OUT THAT MONOLOGUE? UM, NO. I MEAN, I’M 10 YEARS OLR. NO, NO. NO THARSIS GETTG OUT. ONLY AS MUCH THAT ’S REALLY FUN TO LET STEWIE LOOSE. IT WAS MORE THE SENSE OF LETTG HIM UNFOLD HIS WGS, A WAY. WE DANCED AROUND A LOT OF TIM. OBVLY YOU N’T OFTEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNY THOSE EPISOS FOR A 10-PAGE MONOLOGUE. BUT THIS EPISO LENDS SELF TO . HE REALLY GETS TO SPREAD HIS WGS AND GO OFF A WAY THAT IS SO SPECIFILLY GAY, AND NOW WAS THE TIME TO DO . SO THE EEDOM AND THE FUN THAT, I THK. SETH MACFARLANE SPOKE YEARS AGO ABOUT HOW HE HAD ONCE WRTEN AN EPISO WHICH STEWIE OUT AS GAY BUT OPTED NOT TO N WH BEE HE’D RATHER HIS SEXUALY REMA AMBIGUO. WHILE STEWIE DON’T E OUT THIS EPISO, DO ADDRS HIS SEXUALY THE MOST DIRECT WAY THE SERI HAS YET. WHY DO YOU THK NOW IS THE TIME TO DO THAT?I THK HASN’T BEEN ADDRSED A DIFFERENT WAY. I THK WE’VE JT GONE EPER SI STEWIE’S MD AND HIS NER WORKGS. SO ’S NOT THAT HE’S G OUT AS GAY THIS EPISO. NOTHG HAS CHANGED OM WHAT SETH SAID ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG MORE VULNERABLE AND HUMAN AND ACTUALLY TERTG ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. WE’RE JT KD OF ADDRSG THE THGS GOG AROUND THAT THIS. IT’S NOT A QUTN OF G OUT OR NOT G OUT, WHICH IS A KD OF SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG . IT’S ALSO A CHANGE OF THE SHOW. IF HE WERE TO E OUT SUDNLY, THE SHOW BE PRE- AND POST-G OUT. THE MORE YOU LEAVE THERE, THE MORE FUN WE N HAVE WH HIM OVER THE URSE OF 20 YEARS. THE SHOW WILL BE ON FOR 20 YEARS PRETTY SOON. IN THE LONGEVY OF THE SHOW I THK ’S BT TO KEEP HIM WHERE HE IS. IN 20 YEARS OF THIS SHOW AND WH THIS CHARACTER, THIS IS MAYBE HIS BIGGT EPISO. IT’S THE FIRST TIME THE SHOW HAS AIRED WH NO MERCIAL BREAK. IT’S JT HIM AND ONE OTHER CHARACTER. HOW DO RANK FOR YOU TERMS OF YOUR WORK WH THE SHOW?WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT THIS SHOW IS GO ALL DIFFERENT PLAC AND ’S WILLG TO DO SO MANY DIFFERENT KDS OF EPISOS. THIS IS THE MOST EEDOM I FELT I’VE HAD. IT FELT GREAT TO HAVE A CHARACTER THAT YOU KNOW SO WELL AND BE ABLE TO LEARN NEW THGS ABOUT HIM. IT WAS REALLY A GIFT. KEV FALLON
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NOLTE: 11-YEAR-OLD ‘DRAG QUEEN’ DANC FOR DOLLAR BILLS GAY BAR

An 11-year-old boy known as “Dmond Is Amazg” danced on stage at a New York gay bar while grown men tossed dollar bills at him.

But at gay bars where your phone’s rerdg vic are disabled upon entry, 11-year-old Dmond’s parents have him dancg around on stage a tank top while grown men hoot, holler, and throw money. He is the thor of 25 books and hosts the natnally syndited, daily talk rad show, the Le of there is one thg that upsets the gay muny, ’s the accatn that most (or many) gay men are pedophil.

WHY DANCG WAS SO IMPORTANT AT THE STONEWALL INN, NEW YORK'S NEWLY-LANDMARKED GAY BAR

Closely related to this accatn is the charge that they’re groomg boys for gay man wh whom I’ve ever teracted about the subjects has tegorilly nied them, and to a man, they seemed as repulsed at the ia of pedophilia as I was. And personally, I believe ’s te that “man boy love” was often celebrated gay circl throughout rerd ’s te that, to this day, there is more “tergeneratnal” datg among gay men. And ’s te that some of the most celebrated gay ins, cludg Allen Gsberg and Larry Kramer, spoke sympathetilly of NAMBLA and the like.

WHEN THE BOY DRAG DANCED AT THE GAY BAR AND THE GAY MUNY DID NOT PROTT

)But, to repeat, if there’s one thg I’ve heard nsistently om the gay muny is that they plore the ncept of man-boy relatnships. Bee of that, when I wrote a lengthy chapter A Queer Thg Happened to Ameri parg the arguments of pedophile activist wh the arguments of gay activists, I was very reful to state ( ps and bold, the origal): MICHAEL BROWN IS NOT EQUATING HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICE WITH PEDOPHILIA.

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)At the same time, I believe that the nnectn between homosexualy and “tergeneratnal timacy” remas alive and well, as has through gay history. There’s no nyg years, MassRistance has documented the ab takg place between gay adults and mors, pecially school-based GSA’s (Gay Straight Allianc; see here and here and here) there has been no prott om the larger gay muny about the recently, the wake of the new perverted fad of drag queens readg stori to toddlers and ltle children, one of the rears, Dylan Pontiff (aka Santana Pilar Andrews) ma this stunng statement at a cy uncil meetg: “This is gog to be the groomg of the next generatn. A step that should certaly mer a universal gasp of horror om the gay muny reported on the Daily Wire, earlier this month, “an 11-year-old boy drsed drag danced on stage a sexual manner at a gay bar Brooklyn, NY, lled 3 Dollar Bill.

‘FAY GUY’ REVEALS SHOCKG TTH BEHD STEWIE’S ACCENT (AND HIS SEXUALY)SPOILER ALERTTHE WRER OF SUNDAY NIGHT’S HUGE EPISO TAK SI THAT ACCENT TWIST, AND GO EP TO HOW AND WHY THE SHOW FALLY EXPLORED WHETHER STEWIE IS GAY. (WARNG: SPOILERS!)KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED MAR. 19, 2018 12:34PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 18, 2018 9:30PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEASTEVERYTHG YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT STEWIE GRIFF IS WRONG. ALL THIS TIME, HE’S BEEN PRETENDG TO BE SOMEONE HE’S NOT. NOT THAT FAY GUY’S RINT SMARM FACTORY ISN’T MOST LIKELY GAY. THAT IS STILL VERY MUCH TE, AND THE 1-YEAR-OLD’S UNRSTANDABLY PLITED SEXUALY WAS ACKNOWLEDGED DIRECTLY FOR THE FIRST TIME SUNDAY NIGHT’S LANDMARK EPISO “SEND STEWIE, PLEASE”—ALSO THE FIRST TIME FOX’S LONG-NNG SERI AIRED WHOUT MERCIAL TERPTN. NO, THE SE IS THAT THE SARDONIC TODDLER HAS BEEN FAKG THAT BRISH ACCENT—THE TALYST FOR HIS NSCENSN, THE TRA THAT HAS FED HIS ENTIRE ATHETIC—THIS WHOLE TIME. STEWIE’S REAL VOICE, TURNS OUT, SOUNDS A LOT LS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE DOG HIS BT BRISH ACCENT THAN JT SOUNDS LIKE SETH MACFARLANE. DON’T BE NFED. UNLIKE STEWIE’S SEXUALY, WHICH HAS BEEN A NNG JOKE LONG ENOUGH THAT FANS HAVE MA SUPERCUTS OF JOK REFERENCG , THIS WASN’T A REVELATN THAT HAS BEEN BREWG THE MDS OF THE FAY GUY CREATIVE TEAM OM THE START. AS GARY JATI, WHO WROTE THE EPISO AND HAS BEEN A PRODUCER AND WRER FOR THE SERI SCE 1999, TELLS THE DAILY BEAST, “WE LERALLY JT CID … IT WASN’T ANYTHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY FORM.”AND, JATI SAYS, DON’T EXPECT ANYONE ELSE TO LEARN STEWIE’S SECRET ANYTIME SOON. WE SAW AT THE END OF THE EPISO JT HOW FAR THE DIABOLIL YOUNGT GRIFF WOULD GO TO MAKE SURE THE TTH DON’T GET OUT.THE EPISO TAK PLACE THROUGHOUT THE URSE OF A THERAPY SSN STEWIE IS FORCED TO ATTEND AFTER SHOVG A CLASSMATE. IT’S A 30-MUTE WDOW TO HIS MD, SECURI, AND PLITED INTY AS HE VERBALLY SPARS WH DR. CORNELI PRCHFIELD, VOICED BY SIR IAN MCKELLEN, AN OLR GAY BRISH MAN WHO TURNS OUT TO BE BOTH THE PERFECT FOIL AND TALYST FOR A PROJECT FOR STEWIE.ESPECIALLY IF YOU WATCHED THE EPISO HAVG BEEN TIPPED TO THE FACT THAT STEWIE’S THLY VEILED SEXUALY WOULD BE ADDRSED, THE SUNDAY-BNCH--CHELSEA’S WORTH OF POP CULTURE REFERENC JATI SCRIPTED ARE A HOOT, OM HIS PLITED FEELGS ABOUT BETHENNY FRANKEL, TO HIS LTG OVER GRANT GT’S INSTAGRAM, AND EVEN ONE CHEEKY QUIP ABOUT JATI’S OWN HBAND, FASHN POLICE HOST AND REALY TV STAR BRAD GORKI. THERE’S A JAW-DROPPG MONOLOGUE, TOO, WHICH STEWIE DRS DOWN DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER. IT IS SO PACKED OF HYPER-SPECIFIC TAILS RELATG TO PRSURE, SHAME, AND ELISM GAY CULTURE THAT WE ULDN’T BELIEVE WE WERE WATCHG ON FAY GUY. DO STEWIE END UP G OUT? NO. THAT “WOULD BE A SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG ,” JATI SAYS, THAN THE DIRECTN THE EPISO TAK: ATTEMPTG TO UNRSTAND THE JOURNEY THAT STEWIE STILL NEEDS TO GO ON. POIGNANTLY TE TO LIFE, ’S ONE THAT MIGHT BE FULL OF REPRSN, SELF-LOATHG, AND NIAL, AS HE BATS THE TENSN BETWEEN HIS SIRE TO F WH MATAG HIS FABRITED PERSONALY (AND ACCENT) TO, IF HE’S GOG TO BE DIFFERENT, AT LEAST FEEL SUPERR. SO NOW THAT THE EPISO HAS AIRED, WE CHATTED MORE WH JATI, WHO HAS ALSO SERVED AS A PRODUCER AND WRER ON WILL & GRACE, ABOUT THE SIGNIFINCE OF THE EPISO, WHY HE DON’T WANT TO TAKE STEWIE OUT OF THE CLOSET ENTIRELY, THE ACCENT TWIST, AND THAT CREDIBLY DARK ENDG. AT WHAT POT DID THE CREATIVE TEAM CI THAT THE ACCENT WAS AN AFFECTATN AND NOT STEWIE’S REAL VOICE? IS A TWIST THAT’S BEEN BREWG FOR A WHILE? WE LERALLY JT CID . “WHAT IF STEWIE’S ACCENT IS FAKE?” “OK, THAT ULD BE SOMETHG…” IT WASN’T SOMETHG THAT WAS PLANNED AT ALL ANY SHAPE OR FORM. IT WAS JT SPONTANEO. WILL BE REVISED THE FUTURE?I DON’T THK WILL BE, AND I DON’T THK SHOULD BE REVISED. HE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO HI . WE’VE SEEN STEWIE DO A LOT OF DASTARDLY THGS THE URSE OF THE 16 SEASONS THIS SHOW’S BEEN ON THE AIR. HE’S NEVER HAD RAMIFITNS FOR . AND NOW HE HAS TO DO SOMETHG TO PROTECT HIS SECRET. THIS MAN IS SAYG TO HIM, “YOU WILL REGRET THIS ONE DAY.” STEWIE’S HAVG PLEX FEELGS ABOUT SOMETHG HORRIBLE THAT HE DID, AND WHAT HE WILL BE WILLG TO DO TO PROTECT . I THK THAT’S BT LEFT NOT REVISED. IT’S TERTG THAT THE FAKE ACCENT WAS REVEALED THIS EPISO BEE THERE’S SOME REAL RELATABLE GAY PSYCHOLOGY GOG ON THERE. PUTTG ON THE ARTIFICE OF A HEIGHTENED PERSONALY BEE YOU ALREADY FEEL LIKE YOU DON’T F . (LGHS) Y. YEAH, I GUS ’S ALWAYS JT TRYG TO FD MY WAY TO SOMETHG SO THAT ’S TTHFUL, AND ’S TTHFUL FOR STEWIE. THE IA THAT HE NOT ONLY GRAPPL WH HIS SEXUALY, BUT ON TOP OF THAT HE IS EXTRAORDARILY TELLIGENT. HIS TELLIGENCE SETS HIM APART OM EVERYBODY THAT HE TO NTACT WH. THAT’S A VERY AN ISOLATG THG, THE WAY THAT WHEN YOU’RE DIFFERENT, ’S VERY ISOLATG TO FEEL LIKE YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE A SEA OF EVERYONE BEG THE SAME. BUT THEN AT THE SAME TIME, THERE’S SOMETHG ATTRACTIVE ABOUT BEG DIFFERENT. I THK WHAT STEWIE’S FACED WH IS THAT YOU N BE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE. THE PULL OF, BUT I DON’T WANT TO BE LIKE THOSE PEOPLE. WHAT DO HE WANT? I THK THAT A LOT OF GAY PEOPLE N ALSO INTIFY WH THAT. “I DON’T FEEL LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE THGS THAT MAKE ME ME, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE THEM. WHY N’T I HAVE BOTH?”THERE’S AN EMOTNAL TELLECT GOG ON, WHERE STEWIE’S HYPER-SELF-AWARE THAT THGS HE’S SAYG MIGHT BE MISNSTED FOR G OUT AS GAY. WHAT’S BEHD THAT AWARENS, THAT HIS BEHAVR AND PERSONALY SIGNALS AS GAYNS, AND HIS SECURY?STEWIE’S EXTREMELY TELLIGENT. WHEN HE WALKS TO THE ROOM, WH A SEND HE INTIFI THAT THERAPIST AS GAY. AND THE WAY HE ACKNOWLEDG THAT IS WHEN HE SAYS TO HIM THAT THIS ISN’T A G OUT SSN AND I’M SURE YOU LICK YOUR CHOMPS EVERY TIME YOU GET ONE OF THOSE. BUT I THK THAT’S ALSO STEWIE’S WAY OF BRGG UP THE SUBJECT, YOU KNOW? “I’M NOT BEG FENSIVE, BUT…” I THK HE’S SEEG AN OPPORTUNY TO SAY, “THIS ISN’T EASY. WHAT YOU THK THIS IS GOG TO BE, ’S NOT. IT’S NOT AS ACTUALIZED.” OBVLY THAT’S VERY ASTUTE FOR A ONE-YEAR-OLD TO BE GRAPPLG ON THAT LEVEL. BUT HE MENTNS TO DIFFE . THAT MONOLOGUE WHICH HE PLETELY EVISCERAT DR. PRCHFIELD’S RELATNSHIP WH HIS YOUNGER PARTNER HAS SOME REALLY SPECIFIC TAILS THAT YOU ALMOST HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE GAY MUNY TO UNRSTAND THE MUTIAE OF.VERY SPECIFIC. I KNOW! I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD END UP BEG SO LONG. MY FEELG WAS THAT I WAS JT GOG TO WRE THIS SANELY LONG AND LET REACH S LOGIL NCLN. I LET GO HOW I FELT NEED TO GO, THE LENGTH NEED TO GO ORR TO BE WHAT I WANTED TO BE. I THOUGHT WE WOULD ED OR TRIM LATER ON. BUT AS YOU SAID, ’S SO SPECIFIC. I GET TO MUTIAE EVEN WH THE GAY MUNY, SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC WH SPECIFIC. BUT I THK THAT SPECIFICY IS ALSO WHAT GIV A CERTA UNIVERSALY, BEE EVEN IF YOU DON’T GET ALL THE REFERENC YOU UNRSTAND WHAT THEY MEAN. OBVLY THE AGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DR. PRCHFIELD AND HIS YOUNGER PARTNER IS MUCH BIGGER THAN BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR HBAND, BRAD. BUT YOU ARE OLR THAN YOUR HBAND, AND I WONR IF THERE WAS ANYTHG THARTIC YOU WERE AIRG OUT THAT MONOLOGUE? UM, NO. I MEAN, I’M 10 YEARS OLR. NO, NO. NO THARSIS GETTG OUT. ONLY AS MUCH THAT ’S REALLY FUN TO LET STEWIE LOOSE. IT WAS MORE THE SENSE OF LETTG HIM UNFOLD HIS WGS, A WAY. WE DANCED AROUND A LOT OF TIM. OBVLY YOU N’T OFTEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNY THOSE EPISOS FOR A 10-PAGE MONOLOGUE. BUT THIS EPISO LENDS SELF TO . HE REALLY GETS TO SPREAD HIS WGS AND GO OFF A WAY THAT IS SO SPECIFILLY GAY, AND NOW WAS THE TIME TO DO . SO THE EEDOM AND THE FUN THAT, I THK. SETH MACFARLANE SPOKE YEARS AGO ABOUT HOW HE HAD ONCE WRTEN AN EPISO WHICH STEWIE OUT AS GAY BUT OPTED NOT TO N WH BEE HE’D RATHER HIS SEXUALY REMA AMBIGUO. WHILE STEWIE DON’T E OUT THIS EPISO, DO ADDRS HIS SEXUALY THE MOST DIRECT WAY THE SERI HAS YET. WHY DO YOU THK NOW IS THE TIME TO DO THAT?I THK HASN’T BEEN ADDRSED A DIFFERENT WAY. I THK WE’VE JT GONE EPER SI STEWIE’S MD AND HIS NER WORKGS. SO ’S NOT THAT HE’S G OUT AS GAY THIS EPISO. NOTHG HAS CHANGED OM WHAT SETH SAID ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. I THK THERE’S SOMETHG MORE VULNERABLE AND HUMAN AND ACTUALLY TERTG ABOUT KEEPG AMBIGUO. WE’RE JT KD OF ADDRSG THE THGS GOG AROUND THAT THIS. IT’S NOT A QUTN OF G OUT OR NOT G OUT, WHICH IS A KD OF SIMPLER WAY OF HANDLG . IT’S ALSO A CHANGE OF THE SHOW. IF HE WERE TO E OUT SUDNLY, THE SHOW BE PRE- AND POST-G OUT. THE MORE YOU LEAVE THERE, THE MORE FUN WE N HAVE WH HIM OVER THE URSE OF 20 YEARS. THE SHOW WILL BE ON FOR 20 YEARS PRETTY SOON. IN THE LONGEVY OF THE SHOW I THK ’S BT TO KEEP HIM WHERE HE IS. IN 20 YEARS OF THIS SHOW AND WH THIS CHARACTER, THIS IS MAYBE HIS BIGGT EPISO. IT’S THE FIRST TIME THE SHOW HAS AIRED WH NO MERCIAL BREAK. IT’S JT HIM AND ONE OTHER CHARACTER. HOW DO RANK FOR YOU TERMS OF YOUR WORK WH THE SHOW?WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT THIS SHOW IS GO ALL DIFFERENT PLAC AND ’S WILLG TO DO SO MANY DIFFERENT KDS OF EPISOS. THIS IS THE MOST EEDOM I FELT I’VE HAD. IT FELT GREAT TO HAVE A CHARACTER THAT YOU KNOW SO WELL AND BE ABLE TO LEARN NEW THGS ABOUT HIM. IT WAS REALLY A GIFT. KEV FALLON

And watch the drag queens march ont and center, along wh the pedophile-approvg ins helpg to lead the that mel has his head the door, wh marriage refed and homosexualy celebrated and teemed, the rt of the mel is g through.

Corneli Prchfield, voiced by Sir Ian McKellen, an olr gay Brish man who turns out to be both the perfect foil and talyst for a project for Stewie. It is so packed of hyper-specific tails relatg to prsure, shame, and elism gay culture that we uldn’t believe we were watchg on Fay Guy.

”There’s an emotnal tellect gog on, where Stewie’s hyper-self-aware that thgs he’s sayg might be misnsted for g out as gay. Prchfield’s relatnship wh his younger partner has some really specific tails that you almost have to be a member of the gay muny to unrstand the mutiae specific.

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Seth MacFarlane spoke years ago about how he had once wrten an episo which Stewie out as gay but opted not to n wh bee he’d rather his sexualy rema ambiguo. Chanc are, your first tentative steps out onto the London queer scene were ma or around Old Compton Street, the shg of London’s mastream gay culture. Csg a venue to ll out an expensive plummer bee you and your pals thought ’d be a great plan to smash up the toilet after your first h of gay gra gak isn’t exactly the pnacle of allyship.

A mere 30 years later, sectn 28 was passed - makg an offence to promote (talk about) homosexualy schools and only 5 years ago same sex marriag were not legal. And while he never que out as gay, there is a lot to suggt what an olr Stewie might be facg, or reprsg, when to his sexualy.

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You n make up your own md after listeng to Stewie discs Bethenny Frankel and Haton, and even Seth MacFarlane has talked about why an episo where Stewie out as gay was scrapped years ago. To be fair, there are straight clubs that play great mic and have fun, nonjudgmental crowds, and there are gay bars that are nothg more than S and M (Stand and Mol) clubs. Certa gay/lbian clubs have their target clientele, of urse — wboys and wgirls (The Round-up Saloon Dallas), leather men (La Track Montreal), punk lbians (The Dyke Bar Brighton, UK), and drag queens (1001 Pub Maryl Istanbul), for stance — but what I’m talkg about is your basic glter-ball, all-wele, humpg-on-the-dance-floor dis.

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This wouldn’t have happened at any of the gay bars town, and we fely would have had a better time, as the doorman was jt the first of numero snooty employe we enuntered, there. That may seem obv, but ’s amazg how many people enter what is clearly a gay bar and say, “Hey, thar’s a bunch a queers ‘ere. A gay bar is one of the few plac where homosexuals n exprs their affectn for one another whout beg subjected to someone’s narrow judgment, or, prumably, riskg harm to themselv, so expect to happen.

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I went wh three iends — a lbian and a straight uple — to a gay nightclub a while back, but was separated om them immediately after enterg the crowd club. Unlike what you may have seen on Queer as Folk, the overwhelmg majory of gay bars don’t have backrooms and hallways where wild i are takg place. Dg e, particularly the e of ecstasy and other signer dgs, is higher among the gay populatn than the straight populatn, and some gays and lbians equate a night on the town wh a night of high-energy, dg-duced spastic dancg.

In my qut for the perfect dance club, I tried, or was dragged to, diss of all varieti, so I know om experience that the bt dance mic is a gay bar. Sylvter, the late dis diva of the ’80s, was one of the first to target gay dienc, and he tablished a proud tradn of producg multi-layered tracks to which even the most rhythmilly-challenged uld dance.

Even though he was straight and had a girliend, Ron and I went dancg together often; we both loved to dance, and if no one wanted to go out wh , we knew we uld dance a gay bar whout beg hassled.

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From gym gods to nerds to fag hags (the latter beg the straight women who hang wh their gay male iends) to straight upl who want to try some place new — don’t matter. Although, to be hont, the more you look like a er ught the headlights, the more the regulars will look at you oddly, so try not to eak out when you see your first drag queen or gay/lbian uple makg out. And often, gay clubs smaller towns or ral areas are entrance-by-membership-only, to keep out the rednecks and others who want stir up trouble.

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When I attend llege the homophobic town of Wa, Texas, gettg to the one gay bar town remd me of enterg a speak-easy durg Prohibn, but once si, the patrons were all nice and easy-gog. Even when loted “nicer” parts of town, gay bars tend to attract n artists, pick pockets, and gay bashers lookg to prey on the weak or dnk. However, if you have no problem wh gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenred people general, they turn will have no problem wh you, so you ought to give the lol gay bar a try.

Though you should prepare yourself for the fact that people might assume you're gay and might even exprs romantic or sexual tert you. "In real life, the average gay bar is simply a pub where most of the regular patrons are of gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr/genrqueer persuasn.

Lbians are, pendg on who is to be believed, eher ls scene-obssed or ls willg to support their spac than gay men, so 's not unual for a cy to have one or two lbian bars while havg a dozen bars for gay men, each terg to a different crowd. As is the Rule of Cool, gay dienc will note that such bars will be larger, sleeker, flashier, wilr, and generally far more tertg than anythg they have their own neck of the woods, unls they live a big cy. Often, this sort of bar will be ed for a Gay Bar Reveal; this se, 's gog to have to be for a parody of the trope bee is near impossible to mistake this sort of club for what is.

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Counter example, the Batman special Batman and the Ultimate Evil featur a nice, iendly gay bar lled the Lavenr Dragon, to ntrast the wholomens of nsentg adult homosexuals wh the sleazy bs of paedophilia (the Ultimate Evil of the tle). Agent Smecker, a self-hatg homosexual, of The Boondock Sats gets dnk at one of the plac shortly before headg to the church for a nfsnal.

The ma problem was the movie prented the gay S&M scene members specifilly searched for and hired as reprentativ of the entire gay scene. Cut to the Chase: The Man ns a gay club named Central Statn, which is also his base of operatns, and 's seen briefly though not durg workg hours. Dumpl': Willowan and her iends fd a flyer for a bar that do a performance of Dolly Parton's mic every week, and ci to check out, not realizg until they get there that 's a gay bar.

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Forbidn Love: The Unashamed Stori of Lbian Liv: The gay bars of the 40's-50's are discsed, and stock footage is shown of them.

Funeral Para of Ros: The Ge, a gay bar where bsmen sus and ti e to pick up flamboyant cross-drsg "gay boys" like Eddie. One of the ma characters, who is a very closeted gay or perhaps bisexual man, viss an LGBT jot that is fairly rerved by ntemporary standards, but que wild by the standards of 1950s nservative society.

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Judgg by the lightg, the attire of the ctomers, and the sweaty men dog pommel-horse exercis, Booze has chosen the gayt bar this si of San Francis to e for this effort. The Coronatn: In this novel set 1896 Mosw, Afanasii the Romanov urt butler is horrified when the vtigatn to the kidnappg of a prce leads to him beg dragged to a gay nightclub.