Longtime TV cric Dan Avery charts the history of gay, queer, and transgenr reprentatn popular Amerin seri om 1971 to today, om Ellen to Pose.
Contents:
- 2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
- HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
- 'PARANORMAN’S' MCH: THE FIRST FAY-FRIENDLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
- WHY DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER MATTERS
- PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
- CARTOON NETWORK CENSORS ITS FIRST GAY KISS ON NEW SHOW CLARENCE
- WARNG TO PARENTS: PRO-GAY RTOONS ARE ON THE RISE
2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
Loud Hoe this week will troduce Nickeloon’s first married gay uple, but kids’ shows such as Good Luck Charlie have already featured same-sex upl * first gay character on cartoon network *
The database tracks "the historil prence of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, asexual, and other sexual- and genr-mory characters wh nfirmatn animated children’s televisn the US.
Addnally, Rogel and Kyle, two characters who were said by Stevenson to be a polyamoro relatnship wh a female character, Lonnie, the same show, are both labeled as 'gay' stead of 'bisexual' or 'pansexual. The pany has never been known for s great LGBTQ+ reprentatn or polics, but 's e unr even more scty than ual after fans learned that the pany was donatg money to legislators Florida backg that state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill. Especially when the news broke that Pixar has been censorg gay ntent out of s films for Disney really been producg enough spirg ntent to unteract s donatns and lack of a statement?
HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
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When this live-actn remake me out, Disney touted LeFou (played by Josh Gad) as beg their first gay character and even said that he had an "exclively gay moment" the film. Disney and Marvel Studs proudly announced that 2019 they had troduced their first gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, only to have fans fd out that was an unnamed character one scene played by the movie's straight -director. MacGregor, played by Jack Whehall, was supposed to be Disney's "first major gay character" when Jungle Cise was set to be released way back 2019, but bee of the global panmic, the film was layed until 2021.
Marvel's first gay superhero and the first married gay uple the MCU both happened 2021, which was que the year for "First Gays" for the pany. Artie is one of several characters advertised as the pany's "first major gay character" after both LeFou Bety and the Beast and MacGregor the layed-for-several-years Jungle Cise. After news broke that Disney not only donated to legislators backg anti-gay bills, but also repeatedly cut queer ntent om their movi, Pixar cid to rtore a scene the Lightyear film where a female character named Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) kiss her female partner.
Comedian Jaboie Young-Whe will be voicg a new character the upg animated film Strange World who is volved "the first openly gay teen romance a Disney feature" acrdg to Twter er Matthiew Saghezchi, who saw a clip om the film at the Annecy 2022 ftival. A ee area for the discsn of issu facg those who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and all other sexual or nonsexual orientatns and/or genr inti. Queer characters were no longer jt a source of ridicule, but vlently attacked, fuelg a s-long "bury your gays" trope that persists today.
'PARANORMAN’S' MCH: THE FIRST FAY-FRIENDLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
Do a wir variety of narrativ and protagonists mean unabashedly gay animated characters are beg embraced by the majory of mastream U.S. dienc? * first gay character on cartoon network *
But Rebec said she faced years of phback om the stud, which was ncerned about distributn untri where beg gay or lbian was censored media and nsired a crime.
Velma om the origal 1969 "Soby-Doo" rtoon was long read as gay before beg officially wrten as lbian a 2010 update, "Mystery Inrporated. " Benson, a leadg character om "Kipo and the Age of Wonrbeasts, " ma history as the first kids' animated character to directly intify as gay dialogue.
Shiro, the lear of the Palads "Voltron: Legendary Defenr, " was revealed to be gay at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con, but his partner was killed off the same episo he was troduced , a ntroversial moment that played to negative trop and didn't s well wh fans. To rell the first gay character a kids' movie or the first children's rtoon to feature a queer weddg don't require lookg back very far.
WHY DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER MATTERS
Disney's Bety and the Beast remake will quietly troduce the stud's first ever gay character, but there's a reason 's ed such a furore. * first gay character on cartoon network *
They want their children to see gay characters, bisexual characters, trans and nonbary characters, jt as much as they want to see strong female characters and racially diverse on. "05The First Biracial Gay Couple on NickeloonJt before Lln Loud opens his ont door to iend Cly McBri and his parents a 2016 episo of rtoon seri The Loud Hoe, he looks directly at viewers and says, "This is ... Openly gay actrs Wanda Syk and Portia Rossi voice the moms a doll fay separated om their two young kids after a dragon an earthquake their home.
"07The First Gay Kiss() on DisneyThe gural queer kiss on Disney wasn't alone for long: wh sends, the tone moment was followed by a few more. 08The First Full Comg-Out Storyle on a Disney Channel ShowThe Disney Channel's Andi Mack ma history wh the work's first storyle about a gay character g out. In a historic plot twist, that special someone walkg down the aisle isn't the woman om lunch but a gay man, er, aardvark, named Patrick.
"12The First Openly Gay Pixar CharacterOnward — about two teen brothers who attempt to e magic to spend a day wh their late father — om 2020 is the first Pixar movie to clu an openly gay character.
PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
The animated film follows a gay man’s journey to acceptance as he prepar to move to a cy wh his boyiend. * first gay character on cartoon network *
Benson's sexualy is ma explic the season one episo "Ratland, " which Benson, rponse to his (female) iend Kipo's csh on him, simply says, "I'm gay. He opens the ont door to meet his bt iend’s parents – an terracial gay McBri and Mr McBri, as Loud lls them, will make their but on Wednday as the work’s first married gay uple on the show.
CARTOON NETWORK CENSORS ITS FIRST GAY KISS ON NEW SHOW CLARENCE
8 ln viewers before was renewed for a send season on 25 shows have shown LGBT characters and parents the 2005, the PBS show Postrds om Bter, which showed the rabb om the rtoon Arthur teractg wh real kids, pulled an episo which picted gay parents, acrdg to the Associated Prs. Cartoon Network’s current animated seri Clarence, which buted April 2014, featured a gay uple kissg on the cheek – though reports state that the kiss was censored and origally tend to be on the lips.
WARNG TO PARENTS: PRO-GAY RTOONS ARE ON THE RISE
" They say what mak shows durg this so special is that 's not jt a handful of tokenized, possibly gay characters livg a straight world. 2020 was a bummer of a year, but when to all-ag animatn, was a culmatn of the many small steps buildg up to the current state of queer reprentatn: a glor gay celebratn that was unheard of jt five years ago. I thk that optimism, that expectatn where every time, ’s like, ‘Look, here’s this thg, this character, this relatnship, ’ ’s gay, they’re like ‘Cool, do more now, do better.