Gay Reprentatn Kids' Shows: "Arthur" Got Right wh Mr. Ratburn

Contents:

• 12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS
• 'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED BELOVED CHILDREN'S CARTOON
• 'ARTHUR' INTRODUC A GAY CHARACTER DURG SEASON 22 PREMIERE
• DID ARTHUR C CLARKE PORTRAY ANY GAY CHARACTERS HIS FICTN?
• ‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED SEASON 22 PREMIERE
• ‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER MR. RATBURN ME OUT AS GAY AND GOT MARRIED THE SEASON PREMIERE AND TWTER LOVED
• HOW A GAY CHARACTER ON ARTHUR REFLECTS CHANGG NORMS THE U.S.
• PBS 'TAKG ADVANTAGE' OF PARENT'S TST BY CLUDG GAY WEDDG 'ARTHUR': CONSERVATIVE GROUP
• OF URSE CHILDREN'S SHOWS SHOULD HAVE GAY CHARACTERS. 'ARTHUR' IS A GOOD REMR WHY.
• ARTHUR'S TEACHER OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED ON THE PBS KIDS SHOW'S SEASON PREMIERE
• 'PARANORMAN’S' MCH: THE FIRST FAY-FRIENDLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER
• GAY REPRENTATN KIDS' SHOWS: "ARTHUR" GOT RIGHT WH MR. RATBURN
• MR. RATBURN, CHARACTER ON PBS'S ANIMATED 'ARTHUR,' OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED

12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS

Once they got past this ial shock, they took to Twter to exprs their enthiasm.“MR RATBURN IS GAY?? Your move Marvel…,” wrote Rachel Gie, the director of edorial at DailyXtra.This is not the first time the “Arthur” seri has featured a gay character.

On his trip, he meets several children wh lbian mothers and ments, “Boy, that’s a lot of moms!”Acrdg to the LGBTQ media advocy anizatn GLAAD, “Reprentatn daytime kids and fay televisn ntu to grow leaps and bounds.” The anizatn c “Steven Universe,” “Adventure Time” and “Loud Hoe” as some recent exampl of programmg that featur nuanced LGBTQ characters.Yet, featurg a gay marriage on a children’s televisn show remas revolutnary, acrdg to fans.Last year, the s-old discsn over Bert and Ernie’s relatnship and sexual orientatn “Same Street” me to a standstill after Frank Oz, the creator of Bert, nied the character was gay."I created Bert. I know what and who he is," Oz wrote on Twter.Yet Mark Saltzman, a former wrer for “Same Street,” mataed that the puppets were gay.“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay],” Saltzman said an terview wh Queerty. In fact, three of the leadg mastream children’s ble channels — cludg Disney, Nickeloon and Cartoon Network — have shows wh gay or lbian are twelve popular children’s shows wh gay characters:Photo urty: Getty Imag/LtleBee80.

'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED BELOVED CHILDREN'S CARTOON

This popular live-actn tween-centric seri 2017 showsed a primary character, 13-year-old Cys Goodman, revealg he is gay. ” The storyle ntued to this year, wh Cys sayg for the first time, “I’m gay” The seri was nceled after three seasons.

GLAAD is a proment gay rights media watchdog.

'ARTHUR' INTRODUC A GAY CHARACTER DURG SEASON 22 PREMIERE

Ratburn, was gay and gettg married.

DID ARTHUR C CLARKE PORTRAY ANY GAY CHARACTERS HIS FICTN?

Shortly after s premiere, the ter epted over the cln of a gay character and storyle such a proment children’s program. Ratburn om ‘Arthur’ is gay. Do you know how amazg is that someone who’s been on the show om the start, someone who’s a ma character, is openly gay and gettg married on a kids show?

Ratburn om arthur is gay this is the absolute bt thg you’ll see all day, ” noted one person, while another joyfully said, “Mr. Ratburn is gay, im cryg. Ratburn is gay by him havg a same sex marriage.

‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED SEASON 22 PREMIERE

And then there were some who weren’t necsarily agast the choice, but were nfed as to why a gay character was “need” on a children’s show. Ratburn om Arthur is gay…. It’s a kids show, don’t exactly ‘need’ an openly gay character, ” wrote one er.

I jt don’t unrstand why so many TV characters are gay the days. RELATED VIDEO: Josh Gad on Controversial ‘Gay Moment’ In ‘Bety & the Beast:’ ‘This Film Is One of Inclivens’.

Ratburn is gay.

‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER MR. RATBURN ME OUT AS GAY AND GOT MARRIED THE SEASON PREMIERE AND TWTER LOVED

Arthur C Clarke was gay. Did he portray any of his characters as gay (or otherwise LGBT)? An old gay uple who are two of Floyd's longt and clost iends; they had worked the arts earlier life.

Clark treats sexualy has somethg volatile, wh people not belongg fully to one end of the sle (homo or hetero).

HOW A GAY CHARACTER ON ARTHUR REFLECTS CHANGG NORMS THE U.S.

An example the story is Loren, a man for Earth, which intifi as an heterosexual (but wh a small tenncy for homosexualy), is married to a woman and although love wh Marissa, has a one night stand wh her brother, Kumar. Arthur Ls is a gay character om Ls. MR RATBURN IS GAY?!?

Ratburn beg gay is *my* Game of Thron fale.

PBS 'TAKG ADVANTAGE' OF PARENT'S TST BY CLUDG GAY WEDDG 'ARTHUR': CONSERVATIVE GROUP

animatn twter is losg over the fact that arthur ma mr ratburn gay but no one is talkg about his clearly queer sister. Both that the teacher is gay and that the show – a cultural touchstone for many lennials – is still nng.

How a Gay Character on Arthur Reflects Changg Norms the U. Still, ’s possible to unt on your fgers the number of kids’ shows that have picted gay characters.

"But gay activists are not satisfied wh jt changg the law — people mt change their beliefs, too.

OF URSE CHILDREN'S SHOWS SHOULD HAVE GAY CHARACTERS. 'ARTHUR' IS A GOOD REMR WHY.

Children are not askg for their rtoon characters to be gay — activists the entertament dtry are forcg on them. It is offensive to me and my fay that the work would glorify the homosexual liftyle. ”“Arthur, ” which premiered 1996, has prevly featured a gay character.

The Forc of Evil" on the Disney Channel picted gay upl kissg among others durg a boy band ncert, sparkg outrage among pro-fay groups. The same year, the Disney kids seri "Andi Mack" featured a 13-year-old character who realiz he is gay and out to his iends. Addnally, Disney's remake of "Bety and The Beast” clud an openly "gay moment" exprsed by LeFou, the sikick to the movie's antagonist, Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post.

ARTHUR'S TEACHER OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED ON THE PBS KIDS SHOW'S SEASON PREMIERE

Ratburn om ‘Arthur’ beg gay is that I’m jt now fdg out that ‘Arthur’ is still g out wh new episos, ” voice actrs Erika Menz tweeted. )Televisn wasn’t void of openly gay characters or hosts 2005 — “The Ellen DeGener Show” was 2 years old by then and “Will and Grace” was gog strong — but a gay uple on a children’s show, apparently, still seemed a bridge too far. I’m glad we’ve crossed that urse children’s shows should clu gay urse weddgs on children’s shows should, on ocsn, be between members of the same urse parents on children’s shows should, on ocsn, be members of the same sex.

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Ratburn, Arthur's no-nonsense-wh-a-heart-of-gold teacher, is gay.

'PARANORMAN’S' MCH: THE FIRST FAY-FRIENDLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER

The ter was not shy their opns about a rtoon school teacher vg his stunts to his Ratburn beg gay is *my* Game of Thron fale— ??? ??????’ ???????? (@salmattos) May 13, 2019PSA: Mr. Ratburn om "Arthur" is gay.

Do you know how amazg is that someone who's been on the show om the start, someone who's a ma character, is openly gay and gettg married on a kids show? #Arthur — Daniel Mole (@DanielMole29) May 13, 2019On the one hand this gay weddg on Arthur is so cute but on the other hand image gog to a teacher’s weddg— Ira Madison III (@ira) May 13, 2019The episo do not overtly label Mr. Ratburn as "gay" much like another episo of an Arthur spoff show, Postrds From Bter, that featured gay characters.

In 2012, ParaNorman featured the first out gay character an Amerin, fay-targeted, animated theatril release. This has lead to an crease of gay-tged humor and ambiguo characters.

GAY REPRENTATN KIDS' SHOWS: "ARTHUR" GOT RIGHT WH MR. RATBURN

The fact that an unabashedly gay character like Mch ma on the big screen speaks to a shift Amerin culture that is reflected s animatn. In South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, the characters Satan and Saddam Hse are gay lovers; and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, the character Frylock clar himself a transsexual lbian trapped a man's body, and the end cred scene shows Frylock as a woman.

This clus a greater potential for gay-tged humor or gay-d characters. Gay-tged humor tends to be a short punch le or reference that has a gay-readg, but don’t affect the world or fe the sexualy of any of the characters. Gay-tged humor n also e the form of farcil homoerotic suatns between characters that are tablished as straight.

This display of homoerotic humor preces a scene which both characters are shown beg attracted to sirens who have taken the form of betiful animals of their rpective speci, and is their attractn to the femal that leads to their advertent kiss.

MR. RATBURN, CHARACTER ON PBS'S ANIMATED 'ARTHUR,' OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED

In the se of gay-d characters, reliance on ambiguy allows for multiple readgs of a character. In the live actn film Thank God It’s Friday (1978) Kenny Friedman add a gay male uple to a background crowd of dancg straight upl.

He found tt screengs that straight viewers did not notice while gay viewers did. “Which is exactly what he wanted; he found that general dienc are unwillg to see gays and he ma easier for them.