Are you ready for The Twilight Zone, Version 4?

It might be this, Turnip, at https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/twilightzoneworfr/disturbing-fact-i-39-d-like-confirmed-or-refuted-t5240.html

There are other similar web links but most of them seem to stem from the above in terms of substance and/or allegation.

From Joel Engel's book, Rod Serling: The Dreams and Nightmares of Life in the Twilight Zone (1989).
On the one hand, Serling is quoted as saying:
"I happen to think that singularly the worst aspect of our time is prejudice.... It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this--man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself" (p. 167).
On the other hand, Engel also quotes him as referring to some men in show business with the term "fag" (pp. 178, 202). Engel writes the following:
"His supermasculine personality was offended by homosexuality, and such homophobic epithets appeared regularly in his speech and letters, particularly when presumed gay actors had been cast in lead roles he imagined should be played by John Wayne. To his friends in the East, Serling took pleasure in confirming the homosexuality of certain male stars about whom there had been suspicions 'Incipient swishes,' he once said, were common at Antioch. And when an old paratrooper friend proclaimed in the mid-1960s his admiration for Serling and signed his letter 'love,' Serling overreacted. In a responding letter he detailed angrily and explicitly how sick and perverted he thought him to be and suggested immediate psychiatric help" (p. 202).
In his "Methodology and Sources" section, Engel notes his research at "UCLA's Research Library, looking through the many boxes of correspondence, manuscripts, and other memorabilia that Serling and his wife, Carol, had donated" as well as the collection of Serling's papers at the University of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research and "perhaps fifty phone conversations" with Carol Serling (pp. 345-346).

As I said earlier, I make a conscious effort to set this aside in order to appreciate his work and his otherwise sincere concern for other marginalized people.