Talk:LGBT representation in The Simpsons

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 15:25, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that producers of The Simpsons have spoken about the importance of its LGBT characters in representation? Source: Henry (2004). Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture. p. 230. "Although Groening concedes that there is a lack of representation for gay individuals in the popular media, he emphasizes that there is even more of a lack for gay couples".
  Opie (2020). Is Lisa Simpson queer? It's complicated. "Al Jean said he wanted to include more LGBTQ+ characters on the show moving forward".
  • ALT1: ... that LGBT characters in The Simpsons have variously been described as "gay", "androgynous", and "Burns-osexual"? Source: Lavin (2021). "‘The Simpsons’ recasts gay character with gay actor Tony Rodriguez"
    Snierson (2014). 'Simpsons' producer on the surprising Kang and Kodos revelation, 'death' of Ralph Wiggum "We’ve implied androgyny".
    Kiehl (2005). Coming Out in Springfield. "'I've always thought of Smithers as a Burns-osexual,' Jean says".
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/William J. McGee

Created by Thebiguglyalien (talk). Self-nominated at 14:51, 15 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/List of LGBT characters in The Simpsons; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• New article, well written and informative, no obvious copyvio concerns, interesting hook. Have to AGF as archive.org was blocking my access to the sources for spotchecks. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Karl

I think Karl, https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Karl, may be worth mentioning in the article. Thriley (talk) 19:31, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Thriley, this is something I looked for when creating the article, but I was not able to find any reliable sources that discuss this. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 23:08, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

This piece in Slate mentions it: [1]. Thriley (talk) 02:31, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Deletion discussion

For more info, go to Articles for Deletion/List of LGBT characters in The Simpsons, but in short, most of these characters are one-offs, and the ones that aren't either have their own pages already and could easily have their sexuality talked about on said pages, of if they don't have a page it could be talked about on List of The Simpsons. The only notable part of the page is the lede, which I copied over to the influence and legacy section of The Simpsons. Unnamed anon (talk) 01:31, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Unnamed anon I think you misunderstand the guidelines surrounding stand alone lists. Items on a list are not necessarily expected to be notable. Lists are a common method for collecting items that are part of a specific set of criteria but not notable enough for articles of their own. Regardless of what format this article uses, it's not appropriate to remove sourced items that are in fact part of the criteria. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 18:00, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 11 July 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) EggRoll97 ^(talk) 18:18, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

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List of LGBT characters in The Simpsons → LGBT representation in The Simpsons – Per Zxcvbnm's comment on here, reworking this article to be a prose format instead of a list format would hopefully fix the redundancy issue that several of its most notable characters listed have their own separate pages, and as a list was also filled with bloat and poorly sourced characters that had to be removed. As Zxcvbnm said, "Just having a list like this seems... random". As a list this article is unsalvageable, but everyone on the AfD so far believes it's notable for its own page, so the next best option is to rework it into no longer being a list format so it doesn't sound so redundant. Unnamed anon (talk) 17:44, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

• Support As stated in the AfD, I don't think the article should be deleted, but it could be reorganized to talk more about the subject of representation in the show, not just listing out characters. This could easily be accomplished by expanding the prose parts, leaving the embedded list as part of the article. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:58, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support I also support this as it will define the article in a better way than as a list. Plus the major LGBT characters can be expanded a bit more. Conyo14 (talk) 18:58, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
• Support This is notable, but not as a list. QuicoleJR (talk) 19:15, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.