Is the new Mr Garrison gay? : Character Discsn | South Park Foms

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• SOUTH PARK IS GAY!

SOUTH PARK IS GAY!

When South Park began, was a time where was unual for an openly gay character to exist a rtoon, even an mature one. Crics and dience members praised at the time for social novatn by havg homosexuals be rporated to s st. Even for some time after, was wily regnised that South Park was pneerg by ‘normalisg’ the gay muny and for beg clive.

In an early episo, a character named Big Gay Al sence promoted acceptance of the gay muny.

In the episo "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ri", homosexual animals were seen to be shunned and brought to shelter by Big Gay Al, who took the character Stan on a boat ri to expla how acceptg his gay dog back to his home is the right thg to do, as well as how changg him would be wrong; he should stead unrstand his pet's sexual preference and love him for what he was. This dark portrayal of forcg young people to not be who they are is typil of South Park and by the end of this episo the youngsters and Butters' father who sent had him sent there me to the realisatn and acceptance of homosexualy, although may be notable that is likely that Butters did not fully unrstand the tennci though he was ed acceptg what he perceived. " However, Stan rpond wh, "You're gay?

It's fe if you're gay, Butters. Inially a homophobe, Mr.

Garrison was a closeted homosexual and fiercely opposed acceptance of gay people general.

However, he would later have a personal journey to acceptance of himself as a gay man and had a lovg relatnship wh the character Mr. Slave breakg up, she beme hateful towards homosexualy aga but is the character of Garrison that this was anger towards Mr.

the allowance of gay marriage their state, although this would eventually pass. Garrison would later bee unhappy and transn back to beg ‘Herbert Garrison’, a male homosexual, wh a fictnal reverse sex change operatn (although is ed possible for personal inty to change, is not currently possible to fully revert a person to their origal outward genr). Slave, the latter of which would velop a relatnship wh Big Gay Al.

This portrayal of a plex homosexual relatnship was also seen posively by crics. To further the plexy of gay relatns South Park media, Satan was seen to be ught between the two and end up not havg relatns wh eher for he cid he need some personal disvery alone.

There is a liberate, tongue--cheek amount of availabily of backgrounds and sexual orientatn but a shortlist of possible claratns that the player n make about their character clu beg cisgenr (male or female), transsexual (male or female), bisexual; asexual, gay (lbian or homosexual), heterosexual, pansexual etcetera.

They ci that the act was homosexual but not as a te attractn to each other beyond their normal iendship. He brought his parents to meet Randy, who were supportive of his homosexualy or possible bisexualy.

Nearly 15 years later, and “South Park” is trottg out the same tired old transphobic, homophobic, tentnally offensive gobbledygook. Even at a young age, Garrison showed signs of homosexualy, when he felt unloved by his father when he would not molt him.

Dpe beg a homosexual, he would react negativy or "go nuts" if anyone would ask him if he was gay, once g the exce of "actg like to get chicks. He published one novel, which unfortunately for him won an award Bt Homo-erotic Novel, spe the novel’s ma dience was women. Slave, who the episo "The Death Camp of Tolerance" was ed by Garrison to try and get himself fired for beg gay, so that he uld sue the school for lns of dollars.

Slave, emed tolerant of their own homosexualy.

Garrison's Fancy New Vaga", he got a sex change operatn, realizg he was not gay, but jt a woman stuck a man's body and changed her name to Ja. Garrison beme homophobic once more and returned to her origal beliefs on homosexuals.