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Arrow Icon. And while the show now has plenty of queer writers and performers, there are still gaps in its representation, including zero trans stars on its record. Breaking News. Other sketches and characters that are considerably more well-loved and fondly remembered today nonetheless fell into the trap of having queerness itself be the sole punchline rather than anything deeper.

Overall, Dillon was the first LGBTQ+ cast member in Saturday Night Live history — she was even out to her colleagues on the show, just not to network executives (via Vulture).

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General News. The Craft. The series did introduce its first LGBT cast members relatively early into its run, during Season 11 in — Terry Sweeney was the first gay male cast member his husband, Lanier Laney, was also on the writing staffand Danitra Vance was the first lesbian on the show, although only Sweeney was out during their short-lived tenures.

Search for:. Box Office. After Vance and Sweeney left the show, it was almost three decades before the show featured another openly gay performer in its cast. Oscar Predictions. Here's why SNL's "Ambiguously Gay Duo: Safety Tips" TV Funhouse sketch was voiced by Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.

Craft Considerations. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This weekend, sketch-comedy staple Saturday Night Live is turning 50 year old, and much like Molly Shannon’s iconic character Sally O’Malley, it’s proud to say it, proving it can still.

Written by queer writers, the sketches also feel noticeably more authentically gay: certainly still using queerness in its humor but digging deeper into real queer experience. Letting the comedian on, even temporarily, five years later felt like a backslide in the worst way.

A brief history of gay and queer culture on Saturday Night Live. Bowen Yang & Colin Jost on Saturday Night Live NBC After a few surprise exits among the cast, Saturday Night Live has announced the final lineup for its 51st season. Search Icon. Best Of.

Thompson on Hollywood. Consider This. Or, as she amusingly put it beforehand, a song in which she is Sabrina Carpenter bemoaning how nobody is creating lesbian rumors about her like her peers Olivia Rodrigo or Taylor Swift.

On a December episode of the venerated sketch comedy series, Jane Wickline popped onto Weekend Update to sing a song about Sabrina Carpenter. By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.

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And the humor of the show, when it ever rarely addressed gayness, tended toward the leering and the mocking. Watch it here. Inwriter Bowen Yang was promoted to an on-air cast member after a year as a writer on the show. One sketch rested its entire punchline on the idea of trans people taking estrogen treatments.