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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).
“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 *
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).
THE SIMPSONS WRER ADDRS GAY SEX JOKE MA ABOUT LENNY AND CARL
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.
HOW 'THE SIMPSONS' REPLACED HANK AZARIA WH A GAY ACTOR FOR A POPULAR GAY CHARACTER
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.