Nickeloon Pri tweet hts Spongebob Squarepants is gay

Contents:

• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI
• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY
• NICKELOON PRI TWEET HTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
•  STEPHEN HILLENBURG SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANT GAY AXSEXUAL SEXUALY PRI MONTH NICKELOON TWEET RABOW
• THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY CONTROVERSY EXPLAED (& WHY IT'S DUMB)
• IS SPONGEBOB GAY?
• NICKELOON SUGGTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY IN LGBTQ PRI MONTH TWEET
• SPONGEBOB ASEXUAL, NOT GAY: CREATOR
• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI
• IS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? TWEET CREAT RABOW OF SPECULATN
• A HISTORY OF THE ‘GAY AGENDA’ ANIMATN
• NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
• IS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? HERE'S WHAT CHARACTER CREATOR STEPHEN HILLENBURG HAD TO SAY
• IS SPONGEBOB GAY? RECENT TWEET BY NICKELOON LEADS TO SPECULATNS ABOUT HIS ORIENTATN

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI

Given the fandom’s long-held belief that SpongeBob intified as gay, ’s the least Nickeloon uld do for this beloved kids show, and social media reactns did not disappot.

Fans quickly reacted sharg stills om the show and celebratg SpongeBob’s om SheKnowsGrey's Anatomy Fan-Favore Chyler Leigh Com Out Heartfelt LetterCoolhs Founr Natasha Case Spills Her Kid-Snack Hack & It Involv Eel, Not Ice CreamThe Trans Moms Hate Mother's Day -- Here's WhyNot surprised about #SpongebobIsGay sce has always kda jt been the way I have seen SB, but that do not stop me om beg DELIRIOUSLY happy about SB reprentg lgbtq+ culture ❤️?️‍?— ℍ???? ???? (@EmmaHso) June 14, 2020Other fans of the show have taken issue wh this, however, potg out that SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg had intified the character as asexual years ago.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY

Further, sce SpongeBob is not explicly lled gay, fans are left wonrg whether the tweet was fact a misguid alln to his asexualy, which is not referenced the LGBTQ Nickeloon would undoubtedly have ma a stronger statement by, well, makg an actual statement, this is still a big step forward for reprentatn kids’ TV, which has long led LGBTQ characters and relatnships too “adult” for s ntent, spe their fort cludg adult heterosexual relatnships. 5% feel unsafe at kids had jt as many beloved gay rtoon characters as those they assume to be straight, how many LGBTQ kids might feel better accepted and unrstood? Several moments om the show's earlier seasons have rurfaced and been immortalized as mem the last uple of years, cludg one still which shows SpongeBob and his bt iend (or boyiend?) Patrick both wh limp wrists, forhadowg this revelatn by Nickeloon.LGBTQ+ reprentatn children's media remas srce, largely due to phback om studs and parents who equate visible gay, lbian, bisexual or trans characters wh the "sexualizatn" of children.

Jt last month, Pixar released a short film on Disney+ featurg a gay protagonist; Out followed his journey to e out to his parents and troduce them to his boyiend.

And later this year, Marvel Studs will but the first openly gay superhero the MCU — and his hband.Subscribe to Men's HealthSubscribe to Men's HealthCred: Men's HealthPhilip Ellis is News Edor at Men's Health, verg fns, pop culture, sex and relatnships, and LGBTQ+ issu. 1592054553Naturally, took leral sends for the ter to fly to a enzy over the apparent reveal that SpongeBob is as gay for Patrick as we all always knew he was. \u201cGAY SPONGEBOB STANS RISEEEEEEE\u201d — brtany (@brtany).

NICKELOON PRI TWEET HTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

1592096177Of urse, Nickeloon didn’t explicly say SpongeBob is the gay in we’re all so eager to claim he is, but the tweet DOES suggt he’s part of the LGBTQ+ “SpongeBob is gay!!

 STEPHEN HILLENBURG SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANT GAY AXSEXUAL SEXUALY PRI MONTH NICKELOON TWEET RABOW

” paras swept across the ter, other diehard fans of the crter who liv a peapple unr the sea began potg out that we’ve actually known SpongeBob has his place unr the LGBTQ+ umbrella for a long time 2005, creator Stephen Hillenburg said that he “never tend [SpongeBob and Patrick] to be gay.

1592072825Wh so ltle asexual reprentatn media, ’s important not to erase SpongeBob’s ace inty, though some have poted out that there’s still room for him to be homo- or bi-romantic and asexual. \u201c\u201cspongebob is gay\u201d \u201o, spongebob is asexual!

He\u2019s homoromantic asexual; you n have both.

THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY CONTROVERSY EXPLAED (& WHY IT'S DUMB)

#SpongeBobIsGay started trendg as many cid the tweet was nfirmatn of the character’s sexualy. Due part to his close relatnship wh bt iend Patrick Star, the ter had long ago cid that SpongeBob was ed gay. “We never tend them to be gay.

Absorbent and yellow and poro is he… and gay? Fans of the ntil rtoon, which began airg 1999, have long-spected Spongebob to be gay.

IS SPONGEBOB GAY?

“Announcg Spongebob beg gay then turng ments off e a’t no bate, ” tweeted @Drebae_, notg how the work turned off the abily to reply to their tweet. “Spongebob gay? However, creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died om ALS 2018, had mataed that SpongeBob was a member of the LGBTQ+ muny by beg asexual, not gay.

Is SpongeBob SquarePants gay? " In fact, a Ukraian webse lled Fay Unr the Protectn of the Holy Virg said the spongy character promot homosexualy.

Of urse, this didn't prove anythg as the work or the creator of the character didn't e forward and say anythg about SpongeBob's sexual orientatn, but many took to social media assertg that their spicns that SpongeBob was gay. Turns out that don't matter what the work tend bee many saw the character beg an ally of the LGBTQIA+ muny as a nfirmatn that he is gay – they took the tweet by Nickeloon as SpongeBob g out. The work's tweet read, "Celebratg #Pri wh the LGBTQ+ muny and their alli this month and every month, " which promptly saw the hashtag #SpongeBobIsGay trendg.

NICKELOON SUGGTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY IN LGBTQ PRI MONTH TWEET

Intertgly enough back 2005, Hillenburg spoke about SpongeBob sayg that he didn't tend for Patrick and SpongeBob to be gay.

” So if we're gog by his statement, then well, the sponge isn't gay, he's asexual.

SPONGEBOB ASEXUAL, NOT GAY: CREATOR

The cln of the rtoon sponge igned a social media nversatn surroundg SpongeBob’s sexual inty, wh some folks clarg him “a gay in. “We never tend them to be gay, ” Hillenburg said of SpongeBob and Patrick 2005, per People.

” (FYI someone n be both gay and asexual, as such inti are not mutually exclive. SpongeBob SquarePants has had s dose of ntroversy, the biggt one beg about SpongeBob promotg homosexualy. SpongeBob SquarePants hasn’t been safe om ntroversy, and the biggt one is that about SpongeBob beg gay and “tryg to turn children gay”.

The character has been acced of promotg homosexualy, wh var groups exprsg their disfort and even mandg that Nickeloon stops airg the show.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI

The SpongeBob SquarePants Is Gay Controversy Explaed. The “SpongeBob is gay” ntroversy n be tracked all the way back to 2002, when the episo “Rock-a-Bye Bivalve” first aired. The show was acced of promotg gay marriage, but as sea spong aren’t eher female or male, SpongeBob beg the mother is actually normal for him – even more when rememberg that Hillenburg was a mare science tor, and he add as many real life characteristics to the characters as possible.

Hillenburg even clarified that he nsired the character to be “somewhat asexual”, and all claims that SpongeBob is gay are false. A few years later, 2005, a vio wh clips of children’s shows, cludg SpongeBob SquarePants, promotg diversy and tolerance was cricized by an evangelil group, statg the show was “advotg homosexualy”. Others have poted out SpongeBob’s relatnship wh his bt iend, Patrick, sayg they are a uple and th, once aga, promotg homosexualy.

IS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? TWEET CREAT RABOW OF SPECULATN

Meanwhile, some others have simply cid that SpongeBob is gay bee of how he acts. Is SpongeBob gay?

Maybe not, but the Nickeloon rtoon character draws gay fans for his flamboyant liftyle and tolerant attu Is SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickeloon’s buoyant rtoon character, a iend of Dorothy?

A HISTORY OF THE ‘GAY AGENDA’ ANIMATN

Certaly plenty of his fans are gay, the Journal says, notg that stor New York and Atlanta that ter to gay ctomers n’t keep SpongeBob merchandise on the shelv. ” As an article on the Gay Fancial Network’s webse puts , ”You do the math, folks.

” While Nickeloon tells the Journal that the characters on ”SpongeBob SquarePants” are not gay, and that the show is aimed at kids ag 2 to 11, the channel acknowledg an adult fan base, airg the show as late as 11:30 p. Not only are mature fans buyg SpongeBob ems stor gay neighborhoods New York and Atlanta, as the Journal reports, but Wt Hollywood and San Francis, too, reports. ”They are pretty good sellers pecially wh young gay kids, and guys their 30s thk ’s hilar, ” Raymond Ridrg, the assistant manager of the Don’t Panic store San Francis’s Castro District, tells the webse.

”I don’t thk anyone has bought bee they thk he’s gay. He don’t have anythg on him that screams gay. But the gay populatn lik him.

NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

” ”He’s a sponge; how n he be gay? ” Cathy Renna of the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn tells PlaOut, though she adds that she do wonr about.

She pots out that ”SpongeBob” is a h among straight adults as well, but she says of gay viewers, ”I thk our muny has a fely tuned sense of what is fun and mpy, and the show is fely fun and mpy.

” Seri creator Stephen Hillenburg, who tells the Journal he’s not gay, says, ”I always thk of [the characters] as beg somewhat asexual, ” but he says he unrstands why gay people might rpond to his creatn.

IS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? HERE'S WHAT CHARACTER CREATOR STEPHEN HILLENBURG HAD TO SAY

” If gay fans are readg more to ”SpongeBob” than Hillenburg tends, there’s a reason.

Although the tweet don’t explicly say SpongeBob is gay, the two other “rabow” character treatments, released alongsi SpongeBob, are of queer characters, acrdg to the New York Post: “Korra om ‘The Legend of Korra, ’ who is bisexual, and the transgenr actor Michael D. '”‘Fans have known for a while Korra was gay/bisexual — as was revealed the show self and actually wrten to the script.

“Fans of the ntil rtoon, which began airg 1999, have long-spected Spongebob to be gay. “We never tend them to be gay, ” Hillenburg said, referrg to SpongeBob and his bt iend, sea star Patrick. Tossg water on the ntroversy as to whether he’s straight or gay, SpongeBob SquarePants is … neher, sists his creator.

IS SPONGEBOB GAY? RECENT TWEET BY NICKELOON LEADS TO SPECULATNS ABOUT HIS ORIENTATN

Addrsg issu raised last week after at least two nservative Christian activist groups said the hugely popular TV rtoon character and his bt iend, Patrick Starfish, are beg exploed to promote a homosexual liftyle, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, 43, sffed.

Playful SpongeBob, who liv a peapple unr the Pacific Ocean, was purportedly “outed” 2002 news stori that reported his Nickeloon TV show and s sp-off merchandise were popular wh gays.

The artwork by Ramzy Masri, which showed all three characters cloaked rabows, had the ter speculatg — and var forms of “SpongeBob is gay” was already nfirmed by the “Legend of Korra” creators to have end the seri a relatnship wh female iend Asami.