Debate Now Gonzo Is Apparently Now A Queer Icon

[ChristisKing]

The only rule is stay on topic, but what in the world is this? I never even came to this absurd conclusion before.

Gonzo the Great: A History of The Muppets’ Queerest Member

What makes the death-defying Gonzo the queerest part of Henson’s classic Muppet troupe? It’s all in his refusal to adhere to social and gender norms.

collider.com

 

[JGalt]

Hunter S. Thompson was not gay, but all Muppets are.

gonzo (adj.)​

"1971, American English, in Hunter S. Thompson's phrase gonzo journalism. Thompson in 1972 said he got it from editor Bill Cardosa and explained it as "some Boston word for weird, bizarre." Probably from Italian (Neapolitan) gonzo "rude, sottish," a word of unknown origin, perhaps from Spanish ganso and ultimately from the Germanic word for "goose" (see goose (n.)). The Muppets character so called debuted in 1970, but not with the name, which seems to have developed after Thompson's use of the word."

gonzo | Etymology, origin and meaning of gonzo by etymonline