If Heidi Pratt’s photoshopped layout isn’t enough for you to buy the September issue of Playboy magazine, maybe Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Family Guy‘ announcement is: Stewie Griffin is gay!
MacFarlane told Playboy (via Daily News) all about an episode they brought all the way to the script phase where the 1-year-old homicidal baby comes out.
“It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.’”
Due to Stewie’s age, the script kept the outting vague. “Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he’s so hellbent on killing [his mother, Lois] and taking over the world: He has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation.”
MacFarlane was more coy about Stewie’s sexual preference in a February 2008 interview in Advocate, the gay lifestyle mag.
“We all feel that Stewie is almost certainly gay, and he’s in the process of figuring it out for himself. We haven’t ever really locked into it because we get a lot of good jokes from both sides, but we treat him oftentimes as if we were writing a gay character.”
August 13th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
this is gonna suck im definitely just gonna stick to The Cleveland Show when it starts
August 27th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
No…Lol..
August 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
DO NOT MAKE STEWIE GAY!!!! PRODUCERS AND CREATORS ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO RUIN A GOOD SHOW. FAMILY GUY WOULD NOT BE NEARLY AS ENTERTAINING WITH THE PERVERSION OF A ONE YEAR OLD HOMOSEXUAL! EVENTHOUGH YOUR SHOW TYPICALLY HAS CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS IT REMAINS GENERALLY NEUTRAL. I THINK A GAY TEENAGE DAUGHTER IS MORE THAN ENOUGH INVOLVEMENT WITH THE GAY COMMUNITY.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
no f***ing way that is messed up
August 31st, 2009 at 12:36 am
Pardon me while I use biting sarcasm for a moment but: OMG Stewie’s gay!? Why, this will turn the entire Family Guy universe on it’s head! Next you’re going to tell me that the sweet old man living on Spooner St. is gay too! I simply cannot stand it when my fictitious characters go queer on me! It makes me think about homosexuality as an actual personal preference, rather than some perversion against God and Nature! Ooh it makes me angry! How dare you Seth MacFarlane?
*ahem* Now that we’re done with sarcasm, I’d like to say that I hope the outrage and shock seen here is not the general consensus. Even if the viewing public isn’t happy with a gay character (though God knows there are plenty of them for you to complain about), surely the shock is unwarranted? Yes, Stewie is gay. Also on the subject of things you may have missed, Usain Bolt won the 2008 Beijing Olympics 100m dash, Pluto is not longer a planet, and the United States Government was unable to find any Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Glad I could bring you up to speed.
Finally, I’m not even going to touch on how angry it makes me that we as American’s still find it offensive and frightening when someone brings up homo- or bi-sexuality. I’m not going to once mention how absolutely ludicrous the ‘homo-phobia’ shared by so many Americans is; and far be it from me to hint at the fact that because sexual orientation is not a choice, discrimination due to said orientation is just as illegal and immoral as discrimination due to gender or race.
Hmm, it seems as though in saying that I wasn’t going to make those very carefully worded points, I ended up articulating them quite nicely. My sincerest apologies. Now get off Seth MacFarlane’s back. I’m sure you have better things to do with your time.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:20 am
man you ARE THINKING WAY TO MUCH INTO THIS, you need to get out and get laid before u become a pedophile, really that’s like the dumbest most ridiculous thing i ever heard any man or woman believe in, funny in its stupidity but sad for your huge efforts on a cartoon sexual orientation, go shake hands with SpongeBob, u might have a few more strokes of hilarious nonsense drool out of that poor diluted mind of yours