From Miss Frizzle to Splter, we know a gay mentor when we see one.
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Tom of Fland and Bill Ward of Dm fame are gay artists whose work I greatly admire, as well as the humor and imagatn of Roberta Gregory, Howard Cse's precise le and sophistited storytellg, and Ivan Velez 's ic/soap opera Tal Of the Closet.
When live-actn televisn began makg roads for gay reprentatn durg the turn of the century, animatn remaed a tratgly straight (if equently queer-d) affair. The reasons behd the medium’s slowns were obv and, predictably, homophobic. So, pearl-clutchg TV crics would argue, children shouldn’t be exposed to “adult” (read: gay) characters through rnchy rtoons.
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Wtern animatn, meanwhile, eher featured gay characters one-off episos (see “The Simpsons'” inic John Water’s gay steel l episo) if they were aimed more at adults, or kept hidn subtext if the target dience was younger.