The Legend of Zelda’s Lk has long been a gay in - Polygon

Contents:

• LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW
• CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’
• OUR CHILD IS GAY
• 10 TIPS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS
• GAY KIDS
• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
• EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY

LK IS A GAY IN, AND ZELDA FANS KNOW

AO3 may not be the only metric for how many Zelda fans terpret Lk as gay and/or transgenr, but ’s one of the biggt. In art, ’s mon to see queer-d monsters and pecially queer-d villas, particularly bee of how the Hays Co prohibed pictns of homosexualy on screen. This qut fails trans Zelda fans major ways, but much like Aonuma’s nial that Lk is gay, also prents players wh an opportuny.

Even if Lk is never nonilly intified as gay or trans, fan ntent for The Legend of Zelda is everywhere, and queer fans pecially seem to produce ntent drov. For many, Lk is gay or trans or both, and that’s a powerful thg that n’t be taken away.

CHILD STAR STGGLED TO E OUT AFTER PLAYG ‘THE GAY KID’ ‘SCHOOL OF ROCK’

Correctn (May 22): A prev versn of this story rrectly ntextualized a quote om a 2015 terview wh Kotaku, which Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma said Tgle is “not gay. Former child actor Brian Falduto says that he wasn’t able to e out until his senr year of llege bee of the stggl he faced after beg dubbed “the gay kid” om “School of Rock.

“I was so much nial [about my sexualy growg up], ” he said on the “Cooper and Anthony Show, ” “Thk about : I was the fifth gra when this movie me out and I was lled gay, and then someone told me that’s not ol, so I was jt like, ‘Oh, ok, then I’m not gay’. “So I was nyg before I even had a notn of what [beg gay] was, ” he told rad hosts Cooper Lawrence and Anthony Michaels. Beg known as “the gay kid” om “School of Rock” stopped Brian Falduto om g out for years.

“So by the time I realized I was potentially gay, I was already homophobic towards myself, sentially, ” Falduto, who is now an actor, filmmaker, mician and life ach said.

OUR CHILD IS GAY

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.

10 TIPS FOR PARENTS OF GAY KIDS

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.

GAY KIDS

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. While TV shows have featured more and more diverse characters recent years, remas particularly difficult to fd fay-iendly LGBTQ+ movi, often bee the stori (problematilly) often foc on the paful, vlent, R-rated stggl of gay and lbian folks.

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

LGBTQ+ them are not central to the plot of this 2022 Disney feature but the character Ethan is gay and openly smten wh his iend Strange World, rated PG, on Disney+.

Inially shocked, Daniel asks how long he’s known he’s gay to which Tyler asks “How long have you known you’re straight? The only plitn is that he hasn’t e out to him as gay. Everybody’s Talkg About JamieMax Harwood as VioBased on a te story, Everybody’s Talkg About Jamie is a mil that follows Jamie, a gay boy livg northern England who dreams of beg a drag queen.

Sudnly Billy fds himself a much more “tradnal” high school, plete wh homophobic bulli.

EARLY SIGNS TO TELL YOUR CHILD IS GAY

Barbra Streisand’s son Jason Gould me out to her as gay 1998 and he spects she was “already” aware. After Lil Nas X me out publicly as gay and fully embraced his sexualy his Montero (Call Me By Your Name) mic vio, his father, gospel mician Robert Stafford, wrote on Instagram, “Very creative vio. I hope you know that I am more than ‘okay’ wh ; I rejoice that you are gay!

Tori Spellg & Dean McDermott are no strangers to parentg an LGBTQ+ child — McDermott’s olst son, Jack, is gay. Durg a film screeng of his movie My Fake Boyiend  June, McDermott posted an Instagram Story which said, part, “The thg I love about this movie is I got to share wh my 15-year-old, who intifi as trans, and my gay son. In December 2021, By Philipps announced on her podst, By Philipps is Dog Her Bt, that her child Birdie is gay and prefers they/them pronouns.