Before the “queer vogue” of recent years, there was a cid lack of visibily for gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenred, and queer dividuals the media landspe; the visibily that did exist largely prised long-standg stereotyp and...
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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.
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).
“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 *
Ron Becker, Gay TV and Straight Ameri (New Bnswick, NJ: Rutgers Universy Prs, 2006), 3. 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.
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 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. Karen Kopelson, “Dis/Integratg the Gay/Queer Bary: ‘Renstcted Inty Polics’ for a Performative Pedagogy, ” College English 65, no.
Pneerg texts clu Vo Rso, The Celluloid Closet: Homosexualy the Movi, rev. Three texts that have been particularly eful for their foc on televisn and mass media and have th rmed much of what follows this chapter are Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibily Ameri (Chigo: Universy of Chigo Prs, 2001); Gross, Up om Invisibily; and Becker, Gay TV. Other eful llectns clu Alexanr Doty and Corey Creekmur, eds., Out Culture: Gay, Lbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Durham, NC: De Universy Prs, 1995).
THE SIMPSONS WRER ADDRS GAY SEX JOKE MA ABOUT LENNY AND CARL
Martha Gever, John Greyson, and Pratibha Parmar, eds., Queer Looks: Perspectiv on Lbian and Gay Film and Vio (New York: Routledge, 1993). For a more tailed discsn of the shows, see Steven Capsuto, Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lbian Imag on Rad and Televisn, 1930s to the Prent (New York: Ballante, 2000), 106–18. Clifton, “The Future of Gay Ameri, ” Newsweek, March 12, 1990, 21, 25.
Andrew Kopkd, “The Gay Moment, ” Natn, May 3, 1993, 577. Js Cagle, “Ameri Se Shas of Gay, ” Entertament Weekly, September 8, 1995, 20.
Fred Fej, “Invisibily, Homophobia, and Heterosexism, ” Cril Studi Mass Communitns 10, no. Dow provis a eful overview of the rise and mise of the show “Ellen, Televisn, and the Polics of Gay and Lbian Visibily, ” Cril Studi Media Communitn 18, no. Didi Herman, “‘I’m Gay’: Declaratns, Dire, and Comg Out on Prime-Time Televisn, ” Sexuali 8, no.
HOW 'THE SIMPSONS' REPLACED HANK AZARIA WH A GAY ACTOR FOR A POPULAR GAY CHARACTER
Jabs, “When Gay Men Happen to Straight Women, ” Entertament Weekly, October 23, 1998, 23.
Larry Gross, “Out of the Mastream: Sexual Mori and the Mass Media, ” Journal of Homosexualy 21, nos.