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

But did TV viewers in 1990 know who Harvey Fierstein was?

There’s just something about a new girl on a motorcycle.

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

Our first look at a show that shaped your world… even if you never watched it.

Warning: This Strangers With Candy episode is dangerously lacking in Noblet and Jellineck content.

What if the queerness wasn’t the subtext?

Never forget the “Kaiju Brooke Shields” opening credits.

“An unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality.”

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.

From Anita Bryant to Mango in ten LGBTQ-centric sketches.

There’s something inherently queer about puddles.

An anime revolving around wacky gender hijinx refuses to acknowledges that queer people exist.

The greatest gay villain in sitcom history?

Seinfeld gives us Cedric and Bob, two of the only gay villains in 90s TV.

It’s not subtext: Kunzite and Zoisite are an actual, out gay couple.

The triumphant return of RJ Biggins means increased awareness of sitcom bears.

Less white, more queer, and with a Married... With Children-style laugh track.