If you ever watched The Simpsons and thought Lisa could be part of the LGBT+ community, it turns you might have been right.
In a new interview with Digital Spy, the beloved animation’s showrunner Al Jean discussed the possibility of the character being queer. “In my opinion, and this is just my opinion, that is definitely a possibility for Lisa’s life,” he said. “She is open and, you know, somebody who loves everything. Why not?”
Throughout the show’s history, Lisa has famously had dalliances with bully Nelson and Bart’s best friend Milhouse, but several other hints have made viewers think Lisa’s sexuality might not be that concrete.
In the season 23 episode ‘Holidays Of Future Passed’, a montage of pictures of the family in the future showed Lisa holding hands with two women on the couch, but the context behind the picture wasn’t given.
If Lisa is to be welcomed into the queer community, however, it won’t be happening right away. “In an episode in the future, it’s actually her and Nelson, which is again, a little bit of a leap!” Jean added. “We have a show coming up where in the future Lisa might get together with Nelson and features Simu Liu from Shang-Chi as Lisa’s husband.”
It wouldn’t be the first push for diversity in The Simpsons, with Waylon Smithers finally being given a gay romance storyline recently.
The Simpsons has other intriguing storyline innovations on the way. Executive producer and showrunner Matt Selman recently revealed that viewers are going to finally learn how The Simpsons has accurately predicted so many future events in season 34.
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“We have another crazy conceptual episode that explains how The Simpsons know the future,” he said. “It’s a conceptual episode with lots of crazy stuff in it, but it does an explanation of how The Simpsons can predict the future.
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