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Contents:

• 2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
• 12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS
• GAY COMICS
• GAY COMIC STRIPS
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR

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.

) It’s a small moment, but a fundamental one an dtry that until recently only acknowledged gay characters wh the fatt shadg and dg. Only two years later, Benson, a central character the seri, got to e out on screen and utter the words “I’m gay. But Terrace was always open about her tentn to have bi and gay characters her show — and that persistence paid off.

12 POPULAR CHILDREN’S TV SHOWS THAT HAVE GAY CHARACTERS

It’s the perfect end to this big gay year animatn. ) Fally, gay upl animatn are gettg the same experienc as their straight peers, om world-savg love nfsns to small self-fg moments, wh the faiar pg, blhg, and so much more. 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). 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.

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.

GAY COMICS

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.

GAY COMIC STRIPS

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The fastt-growg area ics right now may be, broadly speakg, queer ics—ics that feature some way the liv, whether real or imaged, of LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and/or queer) characters. Queer ics are one of the most vibrant areas of ntemporary ics, fueled large part by the naway succs of Alison Bechl’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home: A Fay Tragiic—the story of a gay girl and her closeted, ultimately suicidal gay father that was adapted to be a Broadway mil of the same tle, and went on to w the Tony Award for Bt Mil 2015. Gayns ed to be a public accatn leveled at ics to discred the medium: the 1950s, Batman and Rob, and Wonr Woman, were spected to be gay, and therefore a negative fluence.

Fredric Wertham wrote his fluential book on ics that the former reprent “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together, ” and for the latter, “the homosexual nnotatn of the Wonr Woman type of story is psychologilly unmistakable … For girls she is a morbid ial.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

” The famo 1954 Comics Co, spired by Wertham’s study, banned “sex perversn or any ference to same”—a clear reference to homosexualy.

But today gay ics are an ever-expandg feature of the field, markg a new era of self-exprsn. Comics ed to be read paranoilly as gay ; ntemporary ics queer inty is openly announced. ” Most signifintly, however, the range and volume of queer ics appearg right now monstrat how forcefully the reali and tails of gay life n get exprsed and visualized ics.

Bechl’s hugely important and popular syndited ic strip Dyk to Watch Out For, which chronicl the everyday liv of a diverse group of mostly gay iends and lovers, began 1983 and ran for twenty-six years; changed ics culture and broar queer culture fively. The film director Lana Wachowski, of the Matrix anchise (and a trans gay woman), wrote recently that although she was a fan of mastream ics as a kid, and later the work of Robert Cmb, “It wasn’t until I disvered Alison Bechl’s Dyk to Watch Out For that I really unrstood what I was lookg for, a queer world wh stori and characters that I uld regnize, that I uld lgh wh and re about. The history of gay ics, however, don’t start wh Bechl.