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DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?
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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 ... " The moment marked the first openly gay uple, who also happened to be biracial, on a Nickeloon show.