Stewie’s gay. (Yeah, we were shocked, too.) In an interview with the September issue of Playboy Magazine, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane reveals a number of secrets about FOX’s long-running animated series, including the fact that the homicidal tot beloved be FG fans is homosexual.

“We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Stewie does come out,” Seth says. “It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.’

“But we decided it’s better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he’s a 1-year-old. Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual…..”