10 Kids TV Characters Who Were Totally Gay Ins

Contents:

• 10 FEMALE MOVIE AND TV CHARACTERS WHO ARE NOW GAY INS
• 10 KIDS TV CHARACTERS WHO WERE TOTALLY GAY INS
• WHAT CHARACTERS WERE GAY INS FOR YOU GROWG UP?
• STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• THE GAY INS OF CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
• IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?

10 FEMALE MOVIE AND TV CHARACTERS WHO ARE NOW GAY INS

To celebrate this tone queer visibily, we looked back over the past three s and round up the 30 most inic LGBTQ characters TV history, om loveable gay uple Mchell and Cameron to trans trailblazers like Sophia Burset.

Disney Channel seri Andi Mack ma history last year when featured s first ever openly gay character on the work.

10 KIDS TV CHARACTERS WHO WERE TOTALLY GAY INS

After the episo aired, the show was renewed for one more season but was subsequently ncelled for beg “too gay”. Even though Jack McFarland’s character has received a mixed receptn for perpetuatg gay stereotyp, he’s one of the longt nng and most inic queer characters on televisn, appearg ten seasons and 188 episos of Will & Grace to date.

He was the first gay man to kiss another man on work TV, and was one of the only ma gay characters on our screens the 90s. Mark Inlito has gone on rerd to say that he received a lot of fan mail for his portrayal, wh young gay kids ‘thankg’ him bee they’d never seen themselv reprented on televisn before. Seth MacFarlane origally outled an episo which the fan-favoure character me out, but he scrapped , but later admted that Stewie is “almost certaly gay”.

WHAT CHARACTERS WERE GAY INS FOR YOU GROWG UP?

He’s unniably one of the most popular gay characters TV history, and showed dienc that gay people uld be multi-faceted. Tara’s ath the show’s sixth cycle led to wispread backlash among fans, who acced creator Joss Whedon of beg homophobic (so stupid).

"The Ltle Mermaid has s fair share of certified LGBTQ+ ins, om Ursula, who was spired by drag superstar Dive, to Sebastian, the young mermaid's "gay bt iend. "I tly believe that for myself and many others, Ra Repulsa was our first gay in before we really knew what that was, " YouTuber Rantasmo says. It’s easy to see why so many gay viewers found themselv drawn to strong, funny female characters, who got to live the liv they wanted to live and not suffer as much for .

This is somethg very relatable for LGBTQ people, and whout actual queer characters to root for, women beme the facto stars of the gay muny. Thanks to their fierce humor, great strength, termatn to own their sexualy, and some s, some credibly obv queer dg, the 10 female characters ronated wh LGBTQ viewers and beme gay ins.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

But as a woman, she didn’t e off as threateng to gay people the way most straight men likely would have at the time, makg the muny gravate toward her. On top of that, Plette’s outfs and makp are over the top and borr on tacky and kschy, which only further enars her to gay viewers. A sultry vixen tight black leather, Catwoman already has nsirable mpy charms and sexual prows, but add to that the fact that Catwoman was portrayed by gay ins like Julie Newmar and Eartha Kt, and you have an in adored by the entire LGBTQ muny.

Kt even said an terview wh the Wdy Cy Tim that the gay muny saved her reer, statg, “When I was trouble wh the ernment and Lady Bird Johnson, was the gay guys who kept my name alive bee they kept lookg for my rerds and they were imatg me.

THE GAY INS OF CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

Many viewers pot to Xena’s relatnship wh her “travelg partner, ” Gabrielle, as beg overtly homoerotic, wh the two nstantly sharg looks and recg l that are totally sexual nuendos. Gay characters were seldom seen on televisn the ’80s, unls was a news program verg the AIDS crisis, so they unrstood the feelg of beg phed asi and heavily related to this group of olr women.

The show was also super queer-iendly throughout s n and even featured numero gay characters, cludg one powerful storyle where Blanche disvers her brother is gay and is gettg married. Wh so many gay men at the time havg mothers who didn’t accept them, watchg Rose, Dorothy, Sophia, and Blanche embrace the muny helped give many of them a sense of maternal love they weren’t feelg at home.

IS CHUCKY THE NEWT GAY IN?

” The 2002 film adaptn really brought out the role’s homoeroticism when Queen Latifah played the role, and a few scen, she even touch some of the mat a way that suggts the favors she exchang might be sexual. Throughout Chigo‘s long n on Broadway, the role has been played by tons of gay ins, like Bebe Nwirth, Jennifer Holiday, drag queen Jkx Monsoon, and even Wendy Williams. Regardls of whether Mama Morton is actually a lbian or not, she certaly giv off massive queer energy that has ma her a fan favore and a gay in.

Garten is also nstantly vg all her gay bti over for bnch (they ually arrive wearg Veyard V and holdg a lorful flower arrangement), and the fal scene of each episo ually volv them all spillg the tea while sippg cktails and nibblg on Ina’s simple 12-pan, five-pot, 45-gredient recip. Drcher’s character is so popular the gay muny that season 6 of RuPl’s Drag Race, Courtney Act even impersonated her the Snatch Game episo. Karen Walker (and the actrs who played her, Megan Mullally) were sudnly the bt iends of gays around the world who tuned every week.

Many gay men had never had a supportive iend like Karen, so her relatnship wh Will and Jack was an important moment turng the cultural ti about how the LGBTQ muny was accepted mastream society. Greg Weisman, the creator of the animated show Gargoyl, nfirmed Lexgton – the tech-whiz of the gargoyle clan – is nonilly gay. Some fans of the seri take fort the fact Lexgton received some posive gay reprentatn the ics, pecially as he formed a csh on a London gargoyle, Staghart.