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Gay Showbiz News: Drinking den Moe's Tavern in cult cartoon series The Simpsons has become a gay bar.
Moe's Taven is renamed Mo's
The Simpsons Moe's Tavern turns gay
The latest episode, which aired in the USA on 16 January, shows the character Smithers being turned away from a gay bar because he is considered not attractive and fashionable enough.
He then suggests to bar owner Moe that he reinvents his rundown and failing tavern as a “men’s bar for the average-looking fellow”.
Soon the bar, renamed Mo’s, is a raging success among the gay community of fictional town Springfield.
These include drag queens who take one look at big-haired character Marge Simpson and quip, “Honey, no one is gonna believe that wig is real.”
The new patrons all assume that Moe is gay as well and even encourage him to run as Springfield’s first openly-gay council member.
In the end, Moe outs himself as heterosexual, saying “I just wish you people could know what it’s like to want acceptance”, and his new gay patrons flee in horror, and the bar becomes Moe’s Tavern again.
This is not the first time that the hit series has featured gay characters and themes. In 2004, Marge’s sister, Patty, was outed as a lesbian.
However, gay playwright, Harvey Fierstein, who guest starred on the show in 1990, declined a second appearance as he felt that The Simpsons’ depiction of gay people relied too much on stereotypes.
