Simpsons' very first gay episode practically really did not make it previous Fox censors

Simpsons' very first gay episode practically really did not make it previous Fox censors

Tv author Costs Oakley informed The Ringer that The Simpsons's initial gay episode, \"Homer's Phobia,\" almost didn't air due to the network censors.

The episode consisted of an appearance by Hairspray supervisor John Seas as an antiques store owner called \"John\" that befriends the family as well as presents them to gay culture. Homer wonders if his boy Bart may be gay and also attempts to make him right. His efforts fail, as well as Homer and his buddies, in anxiety, take Bart to go shoot restricted reindeer. When Bart rejects to shoot, the reindeer end up being aggressive, and John saves the day.

At the end of the episode, Homer sticks up for John when his pals call him \"a sissy.\" John quips: \"Well, Homer, I won your respect, and all I had to do was conserve your life. Currently, if every gay man can just do the exact same, you would certainly be set.\"

The episode wound up winning an Emmy, yet it was a battle for the show to also get it on television.

\" Homer's Fear\" broadcast on February 16, 1997, a number of months prior to Ellen appeared on her sitcom. Networks at the time shied away from gay material, organizing episodes that illustrated gay people at later times if gay content was aired in all.

Oakley co-wrote the episode and submitted it to the Fox censor for authorization. Usually manuscripts would certainly obtain little remarks regarding specific words, yet this episode got lots of notes about \"every single point in the episode that had to do with being gay or words 'gay.'\"

The program picked to create the show anyway, risking a year of work with an episode that may never have aired. \"Over the next 10 months, we just kept our fingers crossed,\" Oakley claimed.

Later on, the episode was re-submitted and also only received a remark stating it was \"appropriate for broadcast.\" Oakley assumes that a brand-new censor can be found in when Fox got a brand-new president in late 1996.

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