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GAY CHARACTERS
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. And this is the first kids' animated character to directly intify themselv as gay.
Bee I'm gay. Queer characters were no longer jt a source of ridicule, but vlently attacked, fuelg a s-long "bury your gays" trope that persists today. Many popular characters were still d om the '60s to the '80s, spe a sexual revolutn and the start of the gay-rights movement.
20 INIC GAY & LGBT ANIME CHARACTERS: THE ULTIMATE LIST
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They were created by Andreas Deja, an openly gay animator, and sang mic wrten by openly gay lyricist Howard Ashman. But Rebec said she faced years of phback om the stud, which was ncerned about distributn untri where beg gay or lbian was censored media and nsired a crime.