‘Family Guy’ Has Become Peak Queer TV—Seriously

Of all the TV shows to have come out in the past 25 years, Family Guy is the last one you would think gay people would associate themselves with. Since its debut in 1999, the long-running irreverent animated Fox series has carried a checkered history with its depictions of queerness. Consider, for instance, Quagmire’s dad coming out as a trans woman and Brian vomiting a grotesque amount after sleeping with her, or Peter Griffin participating in a “gay gene” experiment and his subsequent transformation into a flamboyant gay stereotype.

But over the past two years or so, Family Guy has experienced somewhat of a cultural resurgence online—especially in gay internet communities. Various scenes from the show have been circulating on Twitter and TikTok, consistently used as reaction pics and GIFs to comment on current cultural trends. Just a few months ago, a clip of Lois Griffin screaming her husband's name from the Season 21 episode “The Munchurian Candidate” went viral throughout queer social media spaces.

The clip and its subsequent reaction illustrated how Family Guy still manages to maintain such a commanding pull over the internet—and how much of the internet is so heavily dominated by queer spaces.

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