[ealgeone]

His show also helped “normalize” homosexuality.

[TheDandyMan]

To my recollection, the characters were naturally adverse to homosexuality, but being vapid and unprincipled, wanted to be perceived as fine with it, hence the disclaimer “not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

I think there was an episode where Jerry was misidentified as being gay and went through ridiculous high jinks to disavow the notion. Today, an episode centered around a character desperately trying to prove that he isn’t gay would be met with endless accusations of homophobia —You should be FLATTERED to be perceived as gay!