12 Popular Children’s TV Shows that Have Gay Characters - Michael Fot

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• 12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS

12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS

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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.

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.

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. (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). 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. Wh shows like Steven Universe leadg the charge and changg the game, no longer do we have to settle for “child-appropriate” (read: homophobic) censorship.

Premierg on Nickeloon, The Loud Hoe ma history by troducg the work’s first married gay uple, Howard (Michael McDonald) and Harold McBri (Wayne Brady). In addn to s vibrant animatn and killer soundtrack, the show ma wav wh s troductn of Benson (Coy Stewart), an openly gay male character (who even the word gay onscreen, a rary kids’ animatn. Love how the gay dad characters are jt as “standard” as any typil, heterosexual married parent characters that we always see on TV shows.

You might regnize the tle Heartstopper om the viral queer graphic novel that explod 2019; featur two Brish school boys, Charlie (who is openly gay) and Nick (who is not) fallg love.

This is an excellent show that sts queer characters the hero role and shows kids that beg gay don’t mean you n’t also save the day.