Contents:
- KIPO AND THE AGE OF WONRBEASTS MAK G OUT AS GAY SIMPLE AND DIRECT
- HOW THE CREATORS OF KIPO WERE ABLE TO MAKE BENSON GAY
- NOVA PRODUçãO DA NETFLIX NTA PERSONAGEM ASSUMIDAMENTE GAY
KIPO AND THE AGE OF WONRBEASTS MAK G OUT AS GAY SIMPLE AND DIRECT
Not bee there's anythg wrong wh her, but bee he's gay. Livg the year 2020, really shouldn't be a surprise when a show for children has a character who explicly and simply tells people they are gay, but that is the realy of the world we live right now. Too many animated children's shows will dance around character sexualy, showg characters love but beg aaid to explicly e the word "gay.
HOW THE CREATORS OF KIPO WERE ABLE TO MAKE BENSON GAY
" There are shows like Steven Universe, where two female characters get married, but they're technilly agenr space rocks whose genr n be altered foreign dubs, and other shows that heavily imply queer pairgs but leave them jt vague enough to be niable, like The Legend of Korra endg wh two female characters walkg off together hand hand, but for a character to simply say that they are gay is still rare enough to tch me off guard when happens. Gettg to see a young person of lor e out as gay an animated show for kids is an all-too-rare occurrence. Aga, this shouldn't be a shocker, but you'd be amazed how rare is to see a gay character animated children's media get to actually fall for people along their journey.
When Benson, one of the ma characters of the seri Kipo and the Age of the Wonrbeasts, said the words, “I’m gay” was a revolutnary moment kids animatn. Even after the recent stris queer reprentatn animatn, the simple fact that this mic lovg teen boy said “I’m gay” was huge (and we wrote about extensively here.
Gettg a queer character, let alone one who says “I’m gay, ” is not ually an easy task but -shownner of Kipo Bill Wolkoff revealed that was DreamWorks (the pany behd Kipo) sistence that Benson not only be gay but say . “When we sold the show, we had a gay character, ” rells Wolkoff.
NOVA PRODUçãO DA NETFLIX NTA PERSONAGEM ASSUMIDAMENTE GAY
“We talked wh Peter Gal (chief creative officer at DreamWorks Animatn Televsn) and he’s like, ‘Oh you n totally have a gay character, but they have to say the words, I’m gay. Wolkoff attribut their succs makg Benson gay to the fact Kipo and the Age of the Wonrbeasts isn’t on a work that’s driven by mercials. Where those works might fear their mercials beg pulled bee of homophobia, Netflix don’t have that issue.
Future creators should all be met wh the same reactn the creators of Kipo did when explag Benson was gay. From the first season, which premiered January 2020, we learned that ma character Benson was gay after Kipo admted she had a csh on him.