A number of people have been intified as (or implied to be) lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (monly abbreviated LGBT).
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- MORE GAY RTOON CHARACTERS REVEALED!
- CARTOON CHARACTER SNAGGLEPS HAS HIS OWN IC, AND HE'S OFFICIALLY GAY
MORE GAY RTOON CHARACTERS REVEALED!
Comics wrer Mark Rsell on revivg a beloved rtoon character a strikg tale of pre-Stonewall gay life * huckleberry hound gay *
Recent events the world of animated children's shows have ed people to qutn whether the rtoon dtry is promotg a homosexual agenda. Allegatns have been directed at SpongeBob SquarePants for participatg a pro-gay vio, and at Bter the Bunny for his aternizatn wh a lbian uple and their children. While some have dismissed the allegatns as the rantgs of ultranservative Christians, gay rtoon characters do fact exist, and some of them are even polilly active.
"Even though we were rivals, Mickey was one of the few people who were nice to me after learng I was gay, " Popeye says. Reluctant to say more, Popeye tells me to check out the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Cartoon Alliance.
He says the group helped him immensely when he fally cid to e out as gay after beg btally ritured on-screen by Rob Williams. "Two out and proud gays on one show, wouldn't that be fabulo?! They didn't re that I was gay, but this was 1959, and they didn't want any speculatn about me.
CARTOON CHARACTER SNAGGLEPS HAS HIS OWN IC, AND HE'S OFFICIALLY GAY
The famo pk mounta ln went on to bee a succsful Broadway playwright. In a new ic about his life, we fd out that he is nonilly gay. * huckleberry hound gay *
Snaggleps and Huckleberry soon beme nfidants of other proment rtoon characters stgglg wh their homosexualy. "Durg the mid-'70s, the public beme more aware of jt how many celebri were gay, " explas Snaggleps, turng ser.
"The ironic thg is, they were wrong about one of the first gay ins, " he adds. Though both adm to some progrs for gay rtoon characters, they're worried about the future. The creasg fluence of the relig right and the passage of state laws banng gay marriage have Snaggleps rallyg the troops for the battl they may face the next four years.
A number of people have been intified as (or implied to be) lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (monly abbreviated LGBT). * huckleberry hound gay *
Mark Rsell has taken on this challenge to great effect and creative succs his DC Comics graphic novel seri "Ex Stage Left: The Snaggleps Chronicl, " which featur the tular Hanna-Barbera character as a gay in and playwright 1950s New York. Along wh other characters such as Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound, Snaggleps navigat life and love as a member of the gay muny durg the reign of terror that was the Hoe Un-Amerin Activi Commtee and the Red Sre. Rsell also shar the prcipl that motivate his wrg and character-velopment, avoidg stereotyp and gay trop fictn, and the challeng and rewards that e wh livg a life of prciple.
For "The Snaggleps Chronicl, " the two pillars that I built that story around were, first, I know that he is a gay in. That got me thkg about why Snaggleps would have left theater the first place and also what would have been like livg as a gay man New York durg the 1950s, before he got to the rtoon. Wh Snaggleps and the other gay characters such as Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound, how did you avoid the trop which are all too often ed to wre about gays and lbians fictn?
You mentned the tragic gay figure who kills himself. More specifilly, Snaggleps was based on Tennsee Williams, both terms of his back story beg a Southern gothic playwright and also livg as a gay man New York. Who knows what uld happen to a gay, Southern Gothic playwright a time of Cold War and McCarthyism?