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WHEN DO GAY KIDS START “ACTG GAY”?

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Wh shows like Steven Universe leadg the charge and changg the game, no longer do we have to settle for “child-appropriate” (read: homophobic) censorship. Premierg on Nickeloon, The Loud Hoe ma history by troducg the work’s first married gay uple, Howard (Michael McDonald) and Harold McBri (Wayne Brady).

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In addn to s vibrant animatn and killer soundtrack, the show ma wav wh s troductn of Benson (Coy Stewart), an openly gay male character (who even the word gay onscreen, a rary kids’ animatn. 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.

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.

OUR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON TOLD HE WAS GAY

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).

IS YOUR CHILD GAY?

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.

When do gay kids start “actg gay”?

HOW TO TELL IF YOUR KID IS GAY

A Mnota school district is facg a Department of Jtice vtigatn and a private lawsu over s alleged failure to bat antigay bullyg. When do gay children start exhibg telltale signs? A hefty pile of rearch shows that boys as young as 3 years old who break om tradnal genr rol have a high likelihood of beg gay adults.

OUR CHILD PLAYS WH BARBIE DOLLS -- IS HE GAY?

) The relatnship isn’t one-to-one, however, and ’s certaly not the se that all boys who love Barbie dolls will later intify as gay. The rrelatn is much weaker the other directn: A disproportnate number of boys who don’t nform to genr stereotyp turn out to be gay men, but lots of gay men played wh G.

Thirty of them beme gay or bisexual adults while jt one child om a 34-member genr-nformg ntrol group turned out to be gay. The subjects who strayed the most om nventnally boyish behavr were the most likely to be gay.

There is no magil age at which children adopt stereotypilly gay behavr and keep to adulthood.

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