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- ‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
- “THE WHOLE WORLD’S GONE GAY!”: GAY INTY, QUEER CULTURE, AND THE SIMPSONS
- SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?
- THE SIMPSONS WRER ADDRS GAY SEX JOKE MA ABOUT LENNY AND CARL
- HOW 'THE SIMPSONS' REPLACED HANK AZARIA WH A GAY ACTOR FOR A POPULAR GAY CHARACTER
‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
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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. NotLarry Gross, Up om Invisibily: Lbians, Gay Men, and the Media Ameri (New York: Columbia Universy Prs, 2001), 16.
“THE WHOLE WORLD’S GONE GAY!”: GAY INTY, QUEER CULTURE, AND THE SIMPSONS
A number of people have been intified as (or implied to be) lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (monly abbreviated LGBT). * gay simpsons videos *
For more on news media, see Edward Alwood, Straight News: Gays, Lbians and the News Media (New York: Columbia Universy Prs, 1996).
Benshoff and Sean Griff, eds., Queer Imag: A History of Gay and Lbian Film Ameri (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Ltlefield, 2006). Ron Becker, Gay TV and Straight Ameri (New Bnswick, NJ: Rutgers Universy Prs, 2006), 3.
SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?
Openly gay Cuban-Amerin actor Tony Rodriguez recently land the job of voicg one of the animated show's popular LGBTQ characters, Jul, wh the help of the podst "Gayt Episo Ever." * gay simpsons videos *
The Simpsons, as I argue this chapter, also ntributed signifintly to the reprentatn of gay inty on televisn durg the 1990s and beyond. Jefey Esffier, Amerin Homo: Communy and Perversy (Berkeley: Universy of California Prs, 1998).
On niche marketg, see Alexandra Chas, Sellg Out: The Gay and Lbian Movement Go to Market (New York: Palgrave Maclan, 2000). Tera Lretis is creded wh g the term queer theory a special issue of the femist journal differenc that she eded; see “Queer Theory: Lbian and Gay Sexuali, ” differenc 3, no.
THE SIMPSONS WRER ADDRS GAY SEX JOKE MA ABOUT LENNY AND CARL
The provenance of the term is not as important, however, as the dramatic shifts created wh the amy by queer theory, which offered a more tensified foc on issu of sex, genr, and sexualy than had been evint both femist and gay and lbian studi up to that pot. For a brief (and unsympathetic) history of the stutnalizatn of queer theory, see David Halper, “The Normalizatn of Queer Theory, ” Journal of Homosexualy 45, nos.
HOW 'THE SIMPSONS' REPLACED HANK AZARIA WH A GAY ACTOR FOR A POPULAR GAY CHARACTER
Karen Kopelson, “Dis/Integratg the Gay/Queer Bary: ‘Renstcted Inty Polics’ for a Performative Pedagogy, ” College English 65, no.