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Contents:

• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI
• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY
• NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
• BOB GAY | TEAM | HGGC
• ‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT
• SO BOB BENSON IS DEFELY GAY, RIGHT? AN INVTIGATN

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI

Given the fandom’s long-held belief that SpongeBob intified as gay, ’s the least Nickeloon uld do for this beloved kids show, and social media reactns did not disappot. Fans quickly reacted sharg stills om the show and celebratg SpongeBob’s om SheKnowsGrey's Anatomy Fan-Favore Chyler Leigh Com Out Heartfelt LetterCoolhs Founr Natasha Case Spills Her Kid-Snack Hack & It Involv Eel, Not Ice CreamThe Trans Moms Hate Mother's Day -- Here's WhyNot surprised about #SpongebobIsGay sce has always kda jt been the way I have seen SB, but that do not stop me om beg DELIRIOUSLY happy about SB reprentg lgbtq+ culture ❤️?️‍?— ℍ???? ???? (@EmmaHso) June 14, 2020Other fans of the show have taken issue wh this, however, potg out that SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg had intified the character as asexual years ago. Further, sce SpongeBob is not explicly lled gay, fans are left wonrg whether the tweet was fact a misguid alln to his asexualy, which is not referenced the LGBTQ Nickeloon would undoubtedly have ma a stronger statement by, well, makg an actual statement, this is still a big step forward for reprentatn kids’ TV, which has long led LGBTQ characters and relatnships too “adult” for s ntent, spe their fort cludg adult heterosexual relatnships.

5% feel unsafe at kids had jt as many beloved gay rtoon characters as those they assume to be straight, how many LGBTQ kids might feel better accepted and unrstood?

#SpongeBobIsGay started trendg as many cid the tweet was nfirmatn of the character’s sexualy. Due part to his close relatnship wh bt iend Patrick Star, the ter had long ago cid that SpongeBob was ed gay. “We never tend them to be gay.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY

) Patrick both wh limp wrists, forhadowg this revelatn by reprentatn children's media remas srce, largely due to phback om studs and parents who equate visible gay, lbian, bisexual or trans characters wh the "sexualizatn" of children.

NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

Jt last month, Pixar released a short film on Disney+ featurg a gay protagonist; Out followed his journey to e out to his parents and troduce them to his boyiend. And later this year, Marvel Studs will but the first openly gay superhero the MCU — and his hband.

All TeamBob Gay is a Co-Founr and Executive Director of HGGCBob has been volved private equy sce 1986. TL;DR Bob admir Marshmellow, fell love wh a steer, almost ran away wh a gay li worker and wrtled a guy naked, but lov his kids and acts rponsibly. Bob Benson might be gay — or jt a shrewd manipulator of 1960s homophobia.

BOB GAY | TEAM | HGGC

We received our signal that Bob may be gay or bisexual when he appeared to proposn Pete (Vcent Karthier) a closed-door meetg about the nurse Bob referred to Pete to re for his mother. When Bob mentned the nurse's likely homosexualy, Pete lled him a "generate. Shouldn't he have known om the "generate" ment that Pete wasn't gay?

‘MAD MEN’: IS BOB BENSON GAY? PROBABLY NOT

But I don't thk Bob really thks Pete is gay. In Pete's homophobia, he of urse terprets homosexualy as unmanly. But he is eply his own head about what signal he gave off to make Bob thk he might be gay.

No gayns here.

He's psyched out a potential rival, and if Pete later acc him of proposng him, then Joan, for one, will attt that Bob sure don't seem gay to her, based on their prev history. The cln of the rtoon sponge igned a social media nversatn surroundg SpongeBob’s sexual inty, wh some folks clarg him “a gay in.

SO BOB BENSON IS DEFELY GAY, RIGHT? AN INVTIGATN

“We never tend them to be gay, ” Hillenburg said of SpongeBob and Patrick 2005, per People. ” (FYI someone n be both gay and asexual, as such inti are not mutually exclive. No matter whether you're tstg the nspiracy theorists, the reppers, or Matthew Weer this season, Mad Men's big gay subplot probably won't get rolved that simply the last two episos.

All of which might be a slow build to the g-out party of the show's send major gay character, some of which might speak to bigger issu about beg gay the '60s, a ltle b of which might be a preview of the Stonewall Rts to e, and none of which may mean much of anythg ncrete.

But no matter whether you're tstg the nspiracy theorists, the reppers, or Matthew Weer this season, Mad Men's big gay subplot probably won't get rolved that simply the last two episos.