Stewie Griffin Becomes World's Youngest Openly Gay Person

by Michael Jones · 2009-08-13 14:25:00 UTC
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Stewie Griffin

At one-years-old, Stewie Griffin has likely made history for becoming the youngest openly gay person ever.  Sure, he's an animated cartoon character from the TV show "Family Guy," but still....

But it's true.  "Family Guy" creator Seth McFarlane outed the character in an interview with Playboy hitting newsstands.  Not only is Stewie gay, but there was almost an episode where Stewie traveled back in time to rewrite a Biblical passage often misquoted by anti-LGBT activists.  Here's what McFarlane told Playboy:

We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Stewie does come 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.’ But we decided it’s better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he’s a 1-year-old. Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual...He has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation."

Kind of sounds like some Republican politicians, perhaps....

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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