Netflix's 'She-Ra and the Prcs of Power' Will Give A Major Character Gay Dads - INTO

Contents:

• TAN FRANCE LOV PLAYG A GAY DAD THE NEW ANIMATED SERI ‘PRCS POWER’
• WATCH: ‘PRCS POWER’ PRODUCERS DREW BARRYMORE AND SAVANNAH GUTHRIE ON GAY DADS, GIRL POWER AND HELPG KIDS LOVE WHO THEY ARE
• NETFLIX’S ‘SHE-RA AND THE PRCS OF POWER’ WILL GIVE A MAJOR CHARACTER GAY DADS
• GAYS
• WHAT SHE-RA AND THE PRCS OF POWER’S GAY KISS MEANS TO ITS COMMUNY
• DISNEY+ WILL GIVE PENNY PROUD A GAY BTIE & INTRODUCE SAME-SEX DADS ON ‘THE PROUD FAY’ REBOOT

TAN FRANCE LOV PLAYG A GAY DAD THE NEW ANIMATED SERI ‘PRCS POWER’

”“So much of my life was spent tryg to figure out if there was somethg pletely wrong wh me, ” he ’s one of the reasons France jumped at the chance to voice a gay dad the new Netflix animated show “Prcs Power. And then, of urse, there are the gay dads. Wh recent rhetoric om anti-queer nservativ aimed at LGBTQ+ kids, om “Don’t Say Gay” laws to a troublg movement to ban queer-centric books om Amerin librari, the show — even if is jt a kids show about prcs — nveys a strong, necsary msage to those who need to hear .

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WATCH: ‘PRCS POWER’ PRODUCERS DREW BARRYMORE AND SAVANNAH GUTHRIE ON GAY DADS, GIRL POWER AND HELPG KIDS LOVE WHO THEY ARE

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NETFLIX’S ‘SHE-RA AND THE PRCS OF POWER’ WILL GIVE A MAJOR CHARACTER GAY DADS

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GAYS

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WHAT SHE-RA AND THE PRCS OF POWER’S GAY KISS MEANS TO ITS COMMUNY

Showg a non gay male uple that had a fay and were happy together was one of the first and most important moments of LGBT+ reprentatn the seri. One of the trop is known as “bury your gays” and refers to the high number of queer characters who are killed or have unhappy endgs. In recent years, we’ve seen such reprentatn Nickeloon’s The Legend of Korra and Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe, addn to Netflix’s own Voltron: Legendary Defenr which featur Pidge, a genr non-nformg character, and which revealed that Shiro, the show’s ma character, is gay an episo that premiered back Augt.

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DISNEY+ WILL GIVE PENNY PROUD A GAY BTIE & INTRODUCE SAME-SEX DADS ON ‘THE PROUD FAY’ REBOOT

Ratburn and his (unnamed) hband got married a highly anticipated episo of Kids/YouTubeArthur has been a rnerstone of PBS Kids sce 1996, but 2019, the show featured s first gay character... Ma characters they are not, but we love to see LGBTQ+ fai and, hontly, we didn’t realize how much we were missg gay zebras until Chip and Potato, rated TV-Y, on Ltle Pony: Friendship Is MagicSotaloo is raised by a lbian uple, Aunt Holiday and Auntie KenneyMy Ltle Pony: Friendship Is Magic follows the adventur of unirns, pegasi, and poni throughout Equtria, where they solve problems and, ocsnally, battle the forc of darkns, cludg the Cutie Mark Csars, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Sotaloo. It’s a show about figurg out who you are, and that clus Cys, one of Andi’s bt iends, who out as gay Season years after Cys me out on the show, Joshua Rh, who played Cys on the show, me out on Twter as bisexual.

Unlike a lot of the other gay upl we’ve mentned so far, Harold and Howard are highly visible and recurrg. “When we were greenl I was told by certa Disney learship that I uld NOT reprent any form of bi or gay relatnship on the channel, ” show creator Dana Terrace tweeted 2020. Reprentatn abounds: trans kids, gay parents, and much more.