Contents:
- KIDS' NETFLIX CARTOON 'SHE-RA' INTRODUC GAY CHARACTERS
- 2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
- WHAT SHE-RA AND THE PRCS OF POWER’S GAY KISS MEANS TO ITS COMMUNY
- ‘SHE-RA’: NOELLE STEVENSON ON MAKG HER LEAD CHARACTER GAY AND INSPIRG A GENERATN
KIDS' NETFLIX CARTOON 'SHE-RA' INTRODUC GAY CHARACTERS
(DreamWorks / Netflix) I’d bee so ed to beg let down the past that I’d unknowgly ternalized some of the homophobic arguments that have been ma for years about what is or isn’t “appropriate, ” pecially for kids. Strangers on the ter still thk ’s funny to make homophobic ’s this TV show that lets all kids, and specifilly queer kids, see that beg hont about their feelgs n make them a hero is as excg as is important. For example, a character nfirmed onscreen as lbian should not be head-noned as straight, as this nstut lbian erasure and would be a homophobic gture.
Prumably a gay man; formerly dated Sea Hawk[6]. A gay uple; married wh children, among which is Bow. A gay creature.
2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
Their creator lled them gay a Tweet.
Still, Stevenson, herself a gay woman, wanted young viewers to be able to see a queer relatnship that wasn’t jt cintal, but central to the plot of the entire seri. We’ve got a bunch of people who, jt off Season One, are really, really exced about the gay reprentatn this show.
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. Upon first glance, the show is somethg most parents would be fortable wh their kids watchg as long as they uld handle the fantasy vlence, but s send season the TV-Y7 rated seri starts to really ph the gay agenda—whout actually tellg you is.
As Decir put , "If She-Ra Season 1 featured characters who uld be read as queer, Season 2 is blissfully, almost unapologetilly gay. By now, we’re (unfortunately) ed to most of the prime time adult shows havg the requise gay character and, more recently, even the gay child g out has bee popular on h shows, but seems like Hollywood isn’t ntent to stop there.
‘SHE-RA’: NOELLE STEVENSON ON MAKG HER LEAD CHARACTER GAY AND INSPIRG A GENERATN
Over the urse of the first four seasons of the seri, more reprentatn was troduced, cludg two gay dads for Bow, one of the ma characters.
Makg a legacy character gay is rare and even more so if ’s a ma character. In the same season, that former partner was killed a sad example of the “bury your gays” trope. Kipo and the Age of Wonrbeasts (another DreamWorks seri) revealed that one of s ma characters of lor was gay.
“As a gay woman, ’s somethg I thk is really important to feature kids animatn. 2020 was a bummer of a year, but when to all-ag animatn, was a culmatn of the many small steps buildg up to the current state of queer reprentatn: a glor gay celebratn that was unheard of jt five years ago. I thk that optimism, that expectatn where every time, ’s like, ‘Look, here’s this thg, this character, this relatnship, ’ ’s gay, they’re like ‘Cool, do more now, do better.