In the 1980s and 1990s, LGBTQ characters appeared in The Simpsons, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Crapston Villas, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, and Mission Hill. However, most of these characters were coded as queer rather than being openly queer. The first episode of The Simpsons, on December 17, 1989, featured a gay character, Waylon Smithers, named after gay puppeteer Wayland Flowers. However, like other shows at the time, The Simpsons approached the subject gingerly, not drawing much attention to the sexuality of Smithers, as he remained in the closet, officially, until 2016. Space Ghost Coast to Coast, included a gay character. On December 25, 1994, Lokar, a locust alien and member of the Council of Doom, was introduced in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast Christmas special A Space Ghost Christmas.
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Supplementary material for the series had Lokar referred to himself as a Confirmed bachelor while an article on the official Cartoon Network website featured a reference to a slang word for gay sex. His sexuality was confirmed in audio commentaries for the Space Ghost Coast to Coast Volume 2 DVD and it was revealed that Lokar died at some point during the series. However this was eventually contradicted when Lokar returned in the Season 11 episode "Stephen" in where he is shown to be alive and well.Ĭrapston Villas aired on Channel 4, a British broadcasting channel, from 1995 to 1997. The show would be one of the first animated series on British television to present openly gay characters, specifically Robbie and Larry. The Simpsons episode, " Homer's Phobia", February 16, 1997, featured John Waters, a gay filmmaker. In the episode he voices a gay male character who helps Homer Simpson confront his homophobia. The episode also pokes at general homophobia in U.S.
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The episode, which aired two months before Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on her sitcom, Ellen, came during a time there were unspoken limits on what LGBTQ content could be shown on TV. It was an improvement from Simpson and Delilah in October 1990, which featured a stylish assistant, Karl, who helped Homer, whose sexuality is never mentioned even though the person voicing him ( Harvey Fierstein) is a gay playwright, In the episode, Karl and Homer kiss in what some say is the first animated male-male kiss to air on network television, prior to the gay kiss in the May 2000 Dawson's Creek episode, " True Love". Creator Matt Groening, when asked in a 1991 interview if Karl was gay, said "he's whatever you want him to be" and added that including Karl was "beyond any other cartoon," even though some gay viewers were disappointed that the character didn't identify himself as gay. Some argued that "Homer's Phobia" did more, in terms of awareness and exposing intolerance, than "any live action show at the time." The Simpsons also had a stereotypical on-and-off-again gay couple, Grady and Julio.