A German academic has spent years studying over 500 gay-themed episodes from the long-running animates series The Simpsons, and has found that the cartoon's treatment of homosexuality “as something normal” made it easier for men, who watched the show as kids, to “come-out.” In his book “Behind the Gay Jokes – Homosexuality in The Simpsons,” Erwin Panhuis points to a pivotal 2005 episode which featured the first cartoon depiction of gay marriage.
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