In 'Rugrats' reboot, Phil and Lil's mom will be openly gay

Contents:

• ONE OF THE ORIGAL 'RUGRATS' MOMS IS OPENLY GAY THE SHOW'S REBOOT
• RUGRATS STAR NATALIE MORAL REVEALS THIS MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY REBOOT
• RUGRAT'S BETTY DEVILLE IS OPENLY GAY THE PARAMOUNT+ REBOOT
• ONE OF THE ORIGAL 'RUGRATS' MOMS IS OPENLY GAY THE SHOW'S REBOOT

ONE OF THE ORIGAL 'RUGRATS' MOMS IS OPENLY GAY THE SHOW'S REBOOT

In the new "Rugrats" reboot, Phil and Lil's mom Betty DeVille has some news to fictnal character, who was origally portrayed by actor Kath Soucie, is openly gay the Paramount+ reboot of the animated seri, which premier on the streamg service on the origal seri, which ran om 1991 to 2004, Betty was married to Howard DeVille and the uple had tws, a son named Phil and a dghter named Lil.

The new Rugrats reboot has nfirmed Betty DeVille, the mother of tws Phil and Lil, is a gay, sgle mother. Dpe seemg like a mor cln wh Rugrats mother characters, the portrayal of a gay, sgle mother a program geared towards children is monumental. Social media was rife wh Rugrats fans potg out Betty's queer-dg after the announcement was released, and some gay fans have claimed Betty as a gay in long before the reboot, where their spicns were nfirmed.

Daily, the longtime voice of Tommy Pickl, told TMZ that the st had long spected that Betty was gay, but society hadn't progrsed to the pot where they were allowed to discs .

RUGRATS STAR NATALIE MORAL REVEALS THIS MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY REBOOT

Across two seasons, the show has ma a plethora of pafully te-to-church-life referenc: Jse Gemstone tells his youngt son that a “masturbatn alarm” go off heaven whenever he touch himself, the church support group for married people is full of upl who hate each other, and piful patriarchs are nstantly mimizg the strong women around ’s the tense nnectn between Kelv Gemstone (Adam DeVe), the youngt son of Eli Gemstone, and his voted mullet-wearg ex-Satanist follower Keefe (Tony Cavalero), that nstut the weird, queer-tged heart of The Righteo ’s somethg of an old joke at this pot that J uld have been a gay man; after all, he was a lifelong bachelor and mama’s boy who kept close pany wh an all-male group. Keefe is ostensibly nverted to Christiany, but after two long seasons of homoerotic teasg and clever blockg, ’s clear by now that he wants nothg more than te timacy wh Kelv.

This has led the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, as is formally known, to velop a very strange relatnship to homosexualy, which some Mormon men are vol about their attractn to other men, but rema married to women and do not feel they are sners so long as they don’t act on the “temptatn, ” almost as if their sexual orientatn is a mental illns or substance abe problem. The official term for this the LDS Church is “same-sex attractn, ” clilly abbreviated as “SSA, ” which the church officially separat om “homosexual behavr.

RUGRAT'S BETTY DEVILLE IS OPENLY GAY THE PARAMOUNT+ REBOOT

” The Church’s official stance, as listed on s webse, is that “intifyg as gay, lbian, or bisexual or experiencg same-sex attractn is not a s and do not prohib one om participatg the Church, holdg llgs, or attendg the temple. ” The “s” is to act on your feelgs or tly live your inty, as “sexual relatns between people of the same sex” block your “eternal progrs” as a Mormon, which basilly means that you will be shut out of the hight glori of the LDS Church’s history of anti-queer bigotry and activism is fairly obv and open rerd, this belief has allowed the relign to dodge accatns of homophobia by sentially sayg, “We don’t hate gays specifilly, we jt thk they shouldn’t be havg sex at all. ”And if there’s any character televisn history who would claim he’s sufferg om “SSA, ” ’s Kelv Gemstone, a man who seems ntent — for now, at least — to timately habate wh another man whout nsummatg or even labelg the homoerotic unrton are a regular feature of McBri’s shows, which tend to explore plited, often outré male iendships.

The absurdly tense and sexually charged scen of close physil timacy between Kelv and Keefe rell not jt Christ’s close bros washg his feet and tendg to his wound wh otment, but the oozg homoeroticism of Old Hollywood swords-and-sandals epics like Ben-Hur and Spartac. Dpe the relig appeal, both are pretty gay movi: even if you’ve only seen Cluels, you know the famo scene om Spartac, when the enslaved Tony Curtis wash the body of his Roman master played by Lrence Olivier, and Olivier offers him a d sexual proposn the form of a culary metaphor: “My taste clus both oysters and snails.

Th, nfirmg the long time fan theory that Betty Deville is gay. The jt-released “Rugrats” revival seri has fans a tizzy after nfirmg what many had believed all along — that Phil and Lil’s mom, Betty DeVille, is gay. The “Rugrats” revival clus Betty DeVille as an openly gay character.

ONE OF THE ORIGAL 'RUGRATS' MOMS IS OPENLY GAY THE SHOW'S REBOOT

“In the origal, I knew she was gay but was closeted but now she is openly gay! “‘Betty Deville will be gay Rugrats reboot’ as if she wasn’t already a gay in, ” wrote another. However, others lambasted the reveal that Betty is gay, which they viewed as ditive of smetic progrsivism.

“Makg Betty gay on Rugrats is jt performative wokens and I’m so tired, ” fumed one naysayer.

Erasg this is not nearly as progrsive as makg a new openly gay character would be.