Other Gay Robots
In Woody Allen's 1973 comedy Sleeper, character Jeb Hrmthmg, a futuristic gay man has a gay robot as a house servant.
Chrome, is a 1978 gay robot love story novel written by openly gay actor George Nader, it has become "somewhat of a queer cult novel."
In William Hoffman's 1985 play As Is, representing "the opening salvo in the theatrical war against AIDS, the character Saul turns into a "flamboyantly gay robot" as part of a chorus of characters presenting diverse views on the AIDS pandemic.
In 2011 a costumed and self-described gay robot protested then-candidtae Michelle Bachman to support equal LGBT rights for gay humans and robots. He had previously protested Bill Clinton in 2007 who was campaigning on behalf of his wife Hillary Clinton.
In April 2010 Geoff Peterson, a gay robot sidekick, first appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. It is voiced by Josh Robert Thompson, designed and built by Grant Imahara.
In 2011 filmmaker Mike Buonaiuto presented a fictitious gay robot available to consumers named Adam to raise "awareness of the importance of self-acceptance."
In 2011 Duke Nukem was revealed to have planned for a gay robot sidekick, Randy Pitchford, the "Gearbox boss" stated at a BAFTA event, "Sexuality is part of the Duke personality", explaining that the original idea behind the sidekick was "to explore how Duke would relate to a peer that might have a different sexual orientation."
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