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The first gay couple ever to appear on American television dates back to 1975 — in Norman Lear’s groundbreaking and highly controversial sitcom Hot I Baltimore. Back then, featuring an LGBTQ+ couple on national TV was considered horrifying, even shameful. Although it’s far more common nowadays to see LGBTQ+ characters represented in film and television, […]

When Aaron McGruder‘s comic strip, The Boondocks, became an animated series, it changed television forever. The show debuted in November of 2005 and was instantly a hit as part of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim line-up. Black and white audiences watched every Sunday to see retiree Robert “Granddad” Freeman (voiced by John Witherspoon) and his grandsons, […]

2020 makes us feel weird, so here’s some weird music

Can one show ever really be held responsible for a culturally pervasive pattern of thinking?

The classic He-Man meme video stands the test of time as an iconic example of queer-coded art.

I traveled to upstate New York to interview a man who didn’t understand my Internet article was satirical.

For some reason on Wednesday, Fox renewed The Simpsons for two additional seasons, since that show is apparently still on the air. As the longest-running scripted TV series on prime time, the series will reach 32 seasons and 713 episodes, clinging to dear life like an uncle who refuses to die until his estranged children […]

Who would have thought that a game based on the worst show ever would have a surprisingly sweet gay-centric side story.