Is the dean in community gay

The dean is reluctant, viewing "gay" as an insufficient label for his identity. Another quirk he has is his ambiguous sexuality which has been the subject of much debate. Later he blackmails Jeff into helping him get Troy to be the quarterback for Greendale's football team.

After a controversy involving the gay community, the Greendale school board invites Dean Pelton to become a member, on the condition that he promotes his "homosexuality." Meanwhile, Annie and Chang get cast in a theater production of The Karate.

These quirks included using the word "Dean" as a pun and dressing up in elaborate costumes " Paradigms of Human Memory ". He has an unseen tattoo on his right thigh " Introduction to Finality ". Season 6 Episode 4: Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing The Dean.

His obsession with Jeff Winger " Studies in Modern Movement " is another example as he is the seen playfully touching Jeff when they are together and vying for an opportunity to spend time alone with him. He also has an unabashed dalmatian fetishthe basis of which is dean unknown gay Investigative Journalism ".

He heads up an academic tribunal made up of Ian Duncan and Ben Chang in order to deal with Britta's cheating. “Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing” (March 31, ) In its sixth and final season, Community decided to explore the series-long running joke about Dean Pelton’s mysterious, complex sexuality.

To combat the negative press they decided to promote Craig Pelton to a position on the school board. Pelton responded to the taunt by stating it was "barely the whole truth" " Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples ". At the end of the school year he accidentally invites two people dressed as dalmatians to the " Tranny Dance ".

In the middle of his request. Carl and Richie tell the Dean about complaints that he hasn't fixed the wi-fi yet and how some people are saying he's being too gay. On the surface, Dean Pelton has a lot of pride in the school but it masks an obvious inferiority complex he has over its actual collegiate status " Documentary Filmmaking: Redux ".

He has poor leadership skills and panics whenever emergencies occur " Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts ". In the same vein, Pelton goes to great lengths to be accepting or indiscriminate of others. He also teams up with Pierce to create a new mascot for the school.

These insecurities allow him to be easily cowed by people with more forceful personalities " Origins of Vampire Mythology ". The latter is an indulgence he likes to use in order to deliver news personally to his favorite students in the study group. Throughout the year his bizarre proclivities and man crush on Jeff start to become more apparent.

Several possible indicators of his leanings are his often feminine cosplay and a hint of a past involvement with City College 's Dean Spreck " Basic Rocket Science ". He enjoys interacting with his students and attempts to get them more involved in school functions, sometimes employing strong arm tactics to get them to volunteer " Football, Feminism and You "" Debate ".

His use of extreme political correctness often inadvertently leads to him being more offensive than intended " Football, Feminism and You ". He spends an inordinate amount of his time trying to improve Greendale's prestige though many of these attempts prove misguided " Advanced Criminal Law ".

They hoped he'd be their token Gay board member and proof that Greendale was tolerant of people's sexuality. The Dean agrees to the role and announces, with a fake partner Domingo, that he is to join the. His initial conservative personality faded as his more of his eccentricities surfaced.

His sexuality is apparently extremely complicated: while Pelton admits that gay is "heavily in the mix" and "approximately two sevenths" of what he is, he doesn't identify as merely homosexual, stating that "gay doesn't even begin to cover it" and that he "makes gayness look like Mormonism".

When a drunk Ian Duncan disrupts the party with a lewd rap and then insults the Dean for his strange tastes Pelton suspends the professor. He first met Jeff when Britta admits to using a crib sheet on a Spanish test. At the start of the semester at Greendale, Dean Pelton failed to deliver the rousing speech he hoped would encourage and inspire the new students on campus.

Henry Gilbert once again joins us to discuss how the dean is not actually gay — he may be a pansexual imp, after all — but in forcing him to pick a tidy label, this show does a good job showing.

Dean Decides To Pare

During the semester at Greendale, school board members Carl and Richie caused a scandal by cancelling a Gay pride parade that was to be held on campus. He hasn't confirmed his orientation even when pejoratively called a "fruit" by Leonard Rodriguez. The Dean is shown to be a very upbeat and overall cheerful person.

Pelton is aware of his shortcomings and berates himself frequently for being a "Bad Dean" " Basic Story ". Frankie tells him that his sexuality is none of anyone else's business, but Jeff (Joel McHale) believes that the dean could achieve good things in the school board role.