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Contents:

• THE SIMPSONS: WHEN SMHERS' GAY CLU FIRST STARTED
• AFTER DES, THE SIMPSONS REVEALED SMHERS WAS GAY - HERE'S HOW
• THE SIMPSONS WRER EXPLAS THE IMPORTANCE OF SMHERS’ MONUMENTAL GAY LOVE STORY: ‘I DON’T THK HAS EVER HAPPENED’
• 'SMHERS & BEYOND' SIFTS THROUGH EVERY GAY REFERENCE IN 'THE SIMPSONS'
• THE SIMPSONS' SMHERS TO FALLY E OUT AS GAY, PRODUCER REVEALS

THE SIMPSONS: WHEN SMHERS' GAY CLU FIRST STARTED

Burns whout explicly addrsg his homosexualy for years, but where n the first clu be found?

AFTER DES, THE SIMPSONS REVEALED SMHERS WAS GAY - HERE'S HOW

The Simpsons Hted At Smhers Beg Gay In Season 1. Smhers went through a uple of chang his first episos: he was origally black, but was quickly changed to yellow, jt like the rt, wh executive producer Jay Kogen sayg that Smhers beg black and gay was “too much” so they “jt kept him gay”.

Sce then, The Simpsons has dropped all typ of clu about Smhers beg gay, some more subtle than others, such as Smhers equently visg Sprgfield's gay sectn and gog on an all-male cise. After Des, The Simpsons Revealed Smhers Was Gay - Here's How. Smhers beg a gay man, but took years for the show to overtly make an aspect of his character.

Smhers has been nsired a queer character sce the ceptn of The Simpsons, took until Season 27 for the show to overtly foc on his experience as an openly gay man. Acrdg to The Simpsons shownner and producer Al Jean on the DVD mentary for Season 1's "The Telltale Head, " Smhers beg gay was pched by -executive producer Sam Simon.

THE SIMPSONS WRER EXPLAS THE IMPORTANCE OF SMHERS’ MONUMENTAL GAY LOVE STORY: ‘I DON’T THK HAS EVER HAPPENED’

Comg durg a time perd when havg an openly gay character would have ed issu wh Fox, The Simpsons only allud to Smhers' specific attractn to Burns -- wh supervisg director David Silverman tellg MTV that he was "Burns-sexual" above anythg else.

The Simpsons sually nfirmed Smhers' orientatn Season 8's "Homer's Phobia, " which was primarily centered on Homer g to terms wh his new iend John -- played by director John Waters -- beg an openly gay man.

'SMHERS & BEYOND' SIFTS THROUGH EVERY GAY REFERENCE IN 'THE SIMPSONS'

Season 22's "Flamg Moe" saw Smhers and Moe work together to nvert the latter's tavern to a gay bar.

Homer even sets up a party wh other gay men om around town hop of gettg Smhers to fd a romantic partner who will also help him relax a b more at work. Smhers as one of the more proment gay characters  The Simpsons is, like wh the ntroversial Apu, at tim filled wh good tentns but ltered wh crass and offensive jok. ) “I like that Smhers didn’t have to have a big ‘Sprgfield, I’m gay!

THE SIMPSONS' SMHERS TO FALLY E OUT AS GAY, PRODUCER REVEALS

If there are two thgs I know tuively, ’s what a ‘Simpsons’ joke should sound like and what a gay joke should sound like. “I squeezed as much siry gay-culture stuff as I uld, ” Johnny said. ” As they worked on the script together, “my dad would pch the very niche, extremely filthy gay jok, ” Johnny said.

”“My dad wrote , ” Johnny tweeted, “which prov how well he knows the gay muny.

Smhers is the hight-profile gay character on the seri; he officially me out the episo "The Burns Cage", although most people Sprgfield (and fans of the show) were well aware before this. As a (not very well) closeted gay man, Smhers has had a csh on Burns for as long as he has worked for him, but Burns is almost always obliv.

[9] Asi om his heavily implied homosexualy, Smhers was also implied to have at least some genr nfn and transvte tennci, as, when smokg weed to allow Homer to not vlate his vow of never smokg aga, Smhers end up cross-drsg as Judy Garland and suggtg that Homer pose as Mickey Rooney of 60 Mut fame until Homer's reference to where Mickey Rooney me om had him realize that Mr.

Burns, when askg Smhers what he was dog on the weekend, he said "somethg gay, no doubt", g Smhers to stammer and be taken aback by the qutn until Mr. Burns revealed he meant the antiquated fn of gay that meant dog somethg fun or happy (apparently beg unaware of the fn change to be a phemism for homosexualy), wh Smhers then lghg nervoly after nfirmg Mr.

It is heavily implied that he only participated the mob bee he thought was meant to be a mob tryg to brg about gay marriage, or at least somethg honor of Mr. Unlike his implied grandson, however, is heavily implied that the Smhers sailors were not homosexual, as Bart when teractg wh them will sometim yell "Your grandson's liftyle will sicken you.