"Jafar's orig story is that he's gay and pissed."
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2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
* gay cartoon characters 2020 *
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.
20 CARTOON CHARACTERS WE TOTALLY FOT WERE GAY
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. 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. At the end of season three, when said high school ex asks if he's gay, Todd is fairly certa he isn't... Benson's sexualy is ma explic the season one episo "Ratland, " which Benson, rponse to his (female) iend Kipo's csh on him, simply says, "I'm gay.
The database tracks "the historil prence of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, asexual, and other sexual- and genr-mory characters wh nfirmatn animated children’s televisn the US. In 2020, Kipo and The Age of Wonrbeasts was the first rtoon where a character actually said "I'm gay" out loud. \u201cAnd 2020, Benson om "Kipo and the Age of Wonrbeasts" was the first kids' animated character to directly intify themselv as gay.