'Frasier' Was a Gay Show for Straight People—And That's What Made It So Great

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyIn a season 15 episode of The Simpsons, Marge Simpson famously voiced a then-prevailing sentiment about Sex and the City that the taboo-busting dramedy was a queer Trojan horse. “That’s the show about four women acting like gay guys,” she remarked. But if the HBO series used its brunch-loving foursome as stand-ins for modern queer life, a similar sentiment could be voiced about Frasier, the acclaimed ’90s sitcom about a self-involved ther

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