Hollywood has pushed a concerted, industry-wide effort for years to place LGBTQ-related entertainment into programs aimed at young audiences, often times in cooperation with gay rights group GLAAD.
GLAAD has spent years lobbying Hollywood studios to increase the representation of LGBTQ characters in various programing. The major TV networks, including Nickelodeon, PBS, Cartoon Network, and others, have joined that effort. Now nearly every TV series, animated or live-action, has added gay characters.
Here are thirteen TV shows and characters aimed at young audiences pushing the LGBTQ agenda.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (DreamWorks Animation)
One of the most recent examples is seen in the She-Ra cartoon series. She-Ra has won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming for its LGBTQ representation onscreen.
SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon)
Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month 🌈
(🎨: by @ramzymasri) pic.twitter.com/pENmTaQB0h— Nickelodeon (@Nickelodeon) June 13, 2020
Nickelodeon celebrated Pride Month in 2020 by tweeting images of a rainbow SpongeBob. The network also featured images from shows including The Legend of Korra.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (Warner Bros. Animation/Cartoon Network)
Last July, the makers of Scooby-Doo made a show of confirming that the character Velma is a lesbian. Activists have repeatedly assumed that the sensible-shoe-wearing character is either gay or bi-sexual. But co-creator Tony Cervone wrote: “Velma in Mystery Incorporated is not bi. She’s gay. We always planned on Velma acting a little off and out of character while she was dating Shaggy because that relationship was wrong for her, and she had unspoken difficulty with the why.”
DuckTales (Disney)
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A step in the right direction for LGBT representation… Thank you so much, #DuckTales pic.twitter.com/0wVPLLm4zP
— kolbi 💗🦆 (@PixieSphere) April 4, 2020
Last April, Disney revealed a gay character in DuckTales named Violet, who is presented as a child with two gay dads. The two dads wear shirts saying, “I’m With Dad” with arrows pointing left and right.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Discovery Family)
My Little Pony introduced a lesbian pony couple in June of 2019. The episode, entitled “The Last Crusade,” was praised by series writer and producer Michael Vogel who said that his “first priority” is to push the LGBTQ agenda “on everything I work on.”
Arthur (PBS)
MR RATBURN IS GAY ?!? IM CRYING pic.twitter.com/e9A4ZnnGa2
— MOVED TO GATTSKIN (@gattsplat) May 13, 2019
In May 2019, PBS children’s show Arthur featured a gay wedding scene in its season premiere. The episode, entitled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone,” shows aardvark Arthur’s third-grade teacher Mr. Ratburn tying the knot with another male aardvark. When Arthur and his friends find out their teacher is getting married, they assume that he is getting married to a female rat named Patty.
Adventure Time (Cartoon Network)
In one episode, released in Sept. 2018, of the eight years of Adventure Time, Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the vampire — two main characters — are seen kissing on the lips.
Andi Mack (Disney Channel)
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