Snagglepus, gay? Heavens to murgatriod how could anyone think such a thing? As soon as they’re allowed to age ten years, we’re going to see those two comparing boyfriend griefs.
The first signal is that fancy retro-style of Fred’s dress (I can just hear John Waters cry out "A neckerchief! On a teenage jock!") but there’s also the complete lack of chemistry between Fred and Daphne. While it looks likely that The Simpsons will never completely out Smithers, we’ve seen what he’ll do on his computer with Montgomery Burns’ voice and image, we’ve seen that he lives in the Springfield’s gay neighborhood and we heard his voice come from one of the floats at Springfield’s gay pride parade. More telling was his detesting of secrets and lies - project much Rio? I don’t think Jerrica needed to worry so much about how he’d feel about her secret identity as Jem.Ī list like this wouldn’t be complete with the character living in the most transparent closet in cartoondom. He might have complained, but a relationship with someone busy splitting her time between running a business empire and public appearances as a hologram-powered pop star made for good closet cover. Sure, Rio was the lead character’s boyfriend but he had a few warning signs. Quest has to hire Harvey Birdman to represent him in a custody battle over Johnny and Hadji. We got confirmation of those suspicions, however, when the relationship took a turn for the worse and Dr. The quintet that Johnny Quest traveled with certainly has felt like the kind of improvised family that’s so familiar to gays and the way that Race and Benton took care of each other certainly suggested an affection based in more than just having survived plenty of dangerous adventures. True, the Smurfs were all gaga over Smurfette, but those little blue men couldn’t have lived without any kind of romance before she arrived, it’s hard not to ask the same questions about Smurf village that have been asked about Paradise Island. Here are a few of our favorite (and gayest) cartoon characters. It’s a part of growing up gay, that moment you look back at your pop culture memories and start to see the characters in a new context, picking up signals you weren’t equipped to notice before.