According to producers and critics as well as fans of television shows that are perceived to have a sexually ambiguous or homosexual theme, such shows rely upon a subtext created through double entendres, situational irony, intentional ambiguity, and straightforward gay couplings. According to Liz Friedman, producer of Xena: Warrior Princess, the show's writers played on the ambiguous relationship between Xena and her traveling companion, Gabrielle: ``One episode starts with the camera looking at some bushes,'' Friedman, herself a lesbian, explains.
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