Smithers: Not Gay?

This breaking news just in from LAist:

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation released a study today about the decline of gay characters in network television, the LA Daily News reports, and the results are shocking. Apparently GLAAD does not consider long-time Simpsons regular Waylon Smithers a homosexual man!


Tony at LAist proceeds to list several examples of Smithers flaming homo-mediocrity. Here’s the online guide to Smithers’ sexuality. Quite frankly, I’m shocked… could poor Waylon Smithers be asexual?

The controversy continues here. More Smithers audio here.

About Andy Sternberg

Andy Sternberg is Chief Strategy Officer and founding partner at Adler Integrated. He's also an adjunct instructor of digital (multimedia) journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Find him on Google and Twitter @andysternberg.
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