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Contents:

• FAY GUY IS GETTG RID OF GAY JOK—FALLY
• ‘FAY GUY’ PHASG OUT GAY JOK
• 'FAY GUY' FANS EPT AFTER SHOW PROMIS TO REMOVE GAY JOK
• FAY GUY REVERSED S STANCE ON 'GAY JOK'. WHY?

FAY GUY IS GETTG RID OF GAY JOK—FALLY

In an episo of Fay Guy on Sunday, protagonist Peter Griff remarked that the long-nng seri is “tryg to phase out gay jok.

Dpe creator and star Seth MacFarlane’s outspoken support for gay rights, the program has equently dabbled homophobia and transphobia. The show has long ma lazy jok at the expense of character Stewie’s homosexualy, and drew particular outrage om LGBTQ groups for s portrayal of a transgenr character the 2010 episo “Quagmire’s Dad.

‘FAY GUY’ PHASG OUT GAY JOK

” It’s unclear why took the show this long to qu the gay jok. But tucked among the sight gags and Tmp cricism was Griff tellg the lear of the ee world that “Fay Guy” is “tryg to phase out” gay jok. After sayg that the show would be "phasg out" gay jok earlier this year and then airg a wildly transphobic episo jt a few days ago, Fay Guy is already leang on the same tired old gay jok always the latt episo of the Fox animated s, Fay Guyimag what would be like if Disney bought the work and reimaged the show as a Disney show.

Regular characters Quagmire and Joe have been turned to one-dimensnal gay neighbors whom Lois greets by sayg: "Oh, hello gay uple who's nstantly joggg.

" "Yeah, we're work TV gay, " Joe says, "so all we n do is adopt children and pucker-kiss, no tongue stuff. Stewie, who officially me out 2018, is nstantly the butt of homophobic jok, and there's also the elrly pedophile Herbert, who is sentially a walkg gay rape joke.

'FAY GUY' FANS EPT AFTER SHOW PROMIS TO REMOVE GAY JOK

I'd take a sexls, whe Disney gay uple any of those thgs any day. Fay Guy promised to 'phase out' gay jok on s latt episo, and fans have mixed feelgs [... Fay Guy promised to "phase out" gay jok on s latt episo, and fans have mixed feelgs about the Guy has been on the air for nearly 20 years now, and that time has taken aim at jt about everyone.

" In , Peter Griff me face to face wh Print Donald Tmp, and nmned his behavr towards print snapped back that "many children have learned their favore Jewish, black and gay jok" om watchg Fay Guy. "In fairns, we've been tryg to phase out the gay stuff, " Peter was more than on-mera joke. For better or worse, this junk food of the televisual world has bee a larger part of my life than I ever is why I paid attentn when, last year, the January 2019 episo “Tmp Guy” (an tertg episo and of self, sce took on the Tmp admistratn and featured Meg Griff as a victim of sexual asslt on the print’s part), the show announced s tentn to stop rortg to “gay jok”.

It started wh a fictnal Donald Tmp tellg Peter: “Many children have learned their favoure Jewish, black, and gay jok by watchg your show over the years”, to which Peter replied: “In fairns, we’ve been tryg to phase out the gay stuff. ”This moment was great many ways: the show acknowledged s rponsibily shapg young viewers’ mds, Peter attempted to flect the cricism wh a ltle touch of meta humour – a Fay Guy hallmark – and we were all left lookg forward to a gay-joke-ee future.

FAY GUY REVERSED S STANCE ON 'GAY JOK'. WHY?

So ’s not exactly surprisg that, a recent season 18 episo, Fay Guy appeared to do a plete 180 by reversg s stance on so-lled “gay jok” “Disney’s The Reboot”, the episo se Peter and his fay tryg to fd a new inty for their show. The sequence isn’t so homophobic that mak you want to throw your remote to your TV screen (though by all means, feel ee), but ’s still kd of “meh”.