What She-Ra And The Prcs Of Power’s Gay Kiss Means To Its Communy

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
• WATCH: ‘PRCS POWER’ PRODUCERS DREW BARRYMORE AND SAVANNAH GUTHRIE ON GAY DADS, GIRL POWER AND HELPG KIDS LOVE WHO THEY ARE
• WHAT SHE-RA AND THE PRCS OF POWER’S GAY KISS MEANS TO ITS COMMUNY
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• GAYS
• TAN FRANCE LOV PLAYG A GAY DAD THE NEW ANIMATED SERI ‘PRCS POWER’

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 . More so, they're shocked at how he's always kept his fay hidn, at first givg the dience the imprsn he's hidg his gay fathers.

It don't treat Bow's parents as gay parents, or a fay that's a gay fay, simply mak them a typil fay wh the typil drama parents and their kids endure. Now, we adm 's clever wrg by shownner Noelle Stevenson to have him hidg his inty om gay parents, but the way everythg flows so anilly and subtly, 's really amazg how natural Gee and Lance e off on the screen.

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

In fact, they're bad parents for not allowg Bow to choose his own life, so clearly Netflix is showg , gay or straight, parents n be flawed, even when they want the bt for . 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.

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

Their creator lled them gay a Tweet. (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.

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

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.

Sounds gay — we love ! 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.

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

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. Gay characters! Bis, we’re cludg this bee Legend of Korra absolutely Legend of Korra, rated TV-Y7, on And The Age Of WonrbeastsBenson is an openly gay character on Kipo om the very first episo.

IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY

She’s joed by her iend, Benson, who announc he is gay (after Kipo reveals she has a csh on him) the very first episo.

GAYS

(A gay character a kids show who actually says the word gay?! While there are some mor gay characters on the show, ma character Jeff is beg raised by two moms, EJ (voiced by Lea DeLaria) and Sue (voiced by Tig Notaro) one pot the seri had unnamed gay characters kissg (the b is funny, though the edy isn't their kiss). ”Stream Twelve Forever, rated TV-PG, on FayMchell and Cam were among the first proment gay parents a KenneyWhen Morn Fay premiered 2009, Cam and Mchell were among the few gay ma characters on a work s (and, let’s be hont: ’s still not mon).

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

But all is well and, throughout the seri, while their gay inty is sometim a plot pot, more often they’re jt another fay on the the most part, the plotl wrten for Cam and Mchell uld easily be wrten for a straight uple.