A silly show about an alien showcases parenting outside the gender norms.

It’s a more poignant episode than that one infamous line would make you think.

“We pray, we’re gay, get used to it.”

Come for Marlo Thomas’s fashion, stay for the polite homophobia.

“Here's a knife! Here's a gun! There'll be fun for everyone!”

In which loving practical jokes stands in for homosexuality.

For your consideration: Mimi Bobeck as insult comic drag queen.

A short-lived James L. Brooks sitcom tackled gay representation right before it got canceled.

Tim Allen’s second second did a gay episode almost right off the bat.

Sitcom Halloween stakes have literally never been higher.

Sometimes the Halloween spirit means killing off your entire cast.

Harriette Winslow has never looked so good.

The puppy is a lie, but there’s more than the lesbian grocery store dream sequence.

The greatest gay villain in sitcom history?

I don’t care what you say anymore; this is my life.

It takes the most compassionate cops in the history of primetime TV to care about gays.

The Great Gazoo was allegedly inspired by a real-life gay.

Confused? You probably will be.

Feel bad for both Jonathan *and* Danny Pintauro!

Creepy, kooky, and as concerned as any parents that their child might turn out… you know, “wrong.”