Life is more than mere survival, and Mr. Belvedere is more than a mere butler.

If you wake up in the bed of a gay person, it’s safe to assume you had sex with them. Right?

Candice Bergen as Godzilla leads to surprisingly earnest gay dialogue.

Hear the Sophia Petrillo speech that helped legalize same-sex marriage.

This conversation begins with He-Man and ends with somewhere moderately deep.

The best gay sitcom episode that has a B plot about a death premonition dream.

Bea Arthur teaches us that liberals can be prejudiced jerks too.

A young man comes out as gay, but get this: he’s also good at sports!

Wait, did DVD just make a joke about ejaculate?

Identical cousins! Only with different hair and different sexualities!

In the sitcom world, gay panic gets a happy ending.

Known for its very special episodes, Blossom actually downplays its one big gay storyline. Whoa.

King of the Hill reminds us how much we as a culture have learned about drag queens in the past few years.

Ten years later, it’s a very different situation when a gay guy walks into the bar.

A veteran screenwriter talks Golden Girls, Roseanne and getting RuPaul to play Miss Cummings in The Brady Bunch Movie.

Our second bonus episode looks at a contemporary sitcom: Fresh Off the Boat, which made its Winnie Cooper a lesbian.

Our first bonus episode looks at our first non-sitcom: a Batman episode exploring panstless female supervillain roommates.

The most notable participle ever dangled in defense of LGBT people!

This episode won a GLAAD attitude, but does it seem award-worthy today?

In the 1990s, gays were perfect — altruistic and polite and demure and masculine enough that viewers felt bad when these characters died.