Aspect of children's television
LGBT representation in
children's television
is representation of LGBT topics, themes, and people in television programming meant for children. LGBT representation in children's programming was often uncommon to non-existent for much of television's history up to the 2010s, but has significantly increased since then.
When
Sailor Moon
was released in the United States, elements of the story were removed because Optimum Productions, the Canadian company in charge of the English language product, claimed that some of the content “is not suitable for children.”
[1]
Early
children's programming
addressing LGBT-related subject matter in the United States includes two episodes of
CBS Schoolbreak Special
. "What If I'm Gay?" originally aired on March 31, 1987.
[2]
In September 2007,
Dottie's Magic Pockets
became the first available show for children in gay and lesbian families.
[3]
Representation
[
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]
Netflix
has
contributed substantially
to LGBT representation in animation throughout the 2010s and 2020s.
This includes series such as
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
,
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
, and
Power Rangers Dino Fury
.
[5]
[6]
[7]
Other networks have followed suit. The series finale of Nickelodeon's
The Legend of Korra
, in December 2014, showed
Korra
and
Asami
holding hands,
[8]
showing they are in a relationship.
[9]
As such, the show became one of the first western children's animation series to not only feature major LGBT characters, but also a lead LGBT character.
[10]
[11]
In July 2019,
Michael Dante DiMartino
, one of the series creators, in an interview with
EW
, noted that while the show's crew had always believed Kyoshi was bisexual, her feelings toward women and men were actually only explored in the
young adult
novel and in the comics branching off of the series.
[12]
Nickelodeon's
Hey Arnold!
was confirmed to have two gay characters, in July 2016 by show creator
Craig Bartlett
:
Eugene Horowitz
and Mr. Robert Simmons. Neither identity was explicitly stated in the series.
[13]
In 2019, Nickelodeon released
Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling
, a
television film
and sequel to their 1993 series
Rocko's Modern Life
through Netflix. The producers worked with GLAAD to ensure that the transgender character, in the form of cartoonist frog Rachel Bighead (known as Ralph Bighead in the original series) as well as a plotline involving her coming out to her parents, Ed and Bev Bighead, was respectful to the LGBTQ+ community and fit within the show itself.
[14]
In May 2021, Nickelodeon released a
Blue's Clues & You!
sing-along video on its YouTube channel that features drag queen
Nina West
hosting a
pride parade
. The animated short shows a variety of diverse animal families, including those with same-sex parents and non-binary characters.
[15]
[16]
Disney series have often featured LGBTQ characters in its programming, since the founding of the
Disney Channel
, although these depictions have often been limited or characters have been secondary, rather than primary, characters, like Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland in
Gravity Falls
,
[17]
and a lesbian (and interracial) married couple in
Doc McStuffins
.
[18]
[19]
[20]
The reboot
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
features an interracial gay couple and a character who is confirmed to be
gender non-conforming
and gay.
[21]
The Owl House
, during its series run, dropped subtext and hints that several characters, like
Luz Noceda
and Amity Blight, within the show are
LGBTQ+
, which has often either been confirmed in the show itself or on
Dana Terrace
's Twitter account.
[22]
[23]
In 2017,
Disney Channel in the United Kingdom
aired a
coming out
scene on
The Lodge
, where Josh (
Joshua Sinclair-Evans
) explains to another character that girls are "not his type". The scene was the first coming out scene to be aired on a Disney Channel series.
[24]
[25]
Also in 2017,
Disney
, the creators of
Andi Mack
,
had the character Cyrus Goodman played by
Joshua Rush
come out as gay.
[26]
Hulu and
Discovery Family
also had a range of representation.
The Bravest Knight
centers on Sir Cedric, his husband Prince Andrew (voiced by gay actors
TR Knight
and
Wilson Cruz
), and their daughter Nia.
[27]
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
featured Aunt Holiday and Auntie Lofty are aunts to the young pegasus Scootaloo and are her guardians while Scootaloo's parents are away.
The pair were identified as a lesbian couple by one of the show runners, Michael Vogel. According to Vogel, he and writers Nicole Dubac and Josh Haber agreed to establish the two in their first appearance in the book as a lesbian couple, though without explicitly stating as such, so that they could establish this within the show itself.
[29]
Also, in 2021, Kevin Sullivan, a story editor for
The Loud House
told
Insider
that no one stopped him from using the word "lesbian" as part of a storyline involving Luna and Sam, her crush, and that he was proud of the whole episode. Sullivan added that the fact Luna wasn't more directly identified as a lesbian was not due to pressure from Nickelodeon.
[30]
Censorship
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There has been long-standing
censorship of LGBTQ content
including in children's television. When
Sailor Moon
was released in the United States, elements of the story were removed because Optimum Productions, the Canadian company in charge of the English language product, claimed that some of the content “is not suitable for children.”
[1]
In November 1994,
Byker Grove
featured the first gay kiss on UK children's television.
[31]
This scene caused outrage in the British tabloids and calls for producer
Matthew Robinson
to be sacked,
[31]
but BBC strongly backed the storyline, which received countrywide support from gay teenagers, many teachers, and parents.
[32]
When
Nelvana
licensed
Cardcaptor Sakura
in North America, dubbed the series into English with
Ocean Studios
featuring
Carly McKillip
as Sakura, and released it under the name
Cardcaptors
,
[33]
[34]
the initial version of the dub covered all 70 episodes, although character names were changed, some Japanese text was changed to English, and subjects considered controversial at the time, such as
same-sex relationships
, were edited out. One of the censored themes was that of homosexual characters, including Tomoyo, who was changed from having a crush to being just a friend, and the gay relationship between Toya and Yukito, which was also portrayed as just friends.
[35]
In 2005,
PBS
planned to release an episode of the children's series
Postcards from Buster
, titled "Sugartime", in which the animated bunny, Buster Baxter, visits the children of two
lesbian
mothers. When education secretary
Margaret Spellings
stated disapproval of the planned episode, PBS withdrew plans for airing.
[20]
Spellings believed the episode to be inappropriate for children as well as a misuse of governmental funding that the show had received.
[36]
Apart from Reilly's statement, then-PBS chief operating officer Wayne Godwin said the episode brought up an issue that was "best left for parents and children to address together at a time and manner of their own choosing", while spokesperson Lea Sloan said it was "sensitive in today’s political climate."
[37]
Years later,
Rebecca Sugar
described Spellings' idea as "absurd," saying she recognized the challenges of creating LGBTQ+-friendly animation when she tried to enter the animation field.
[38]
At the time, the episode was one of the earliest confirmed representations of LGBTQ people "in US animated children's TV."
[39]
In July 2016,
The Loud House
episode which introduced the interracial gay couple
Howard and Harold McBride
, was censored by a South African broadcaster, DStv
[40]
[41]
despite the fact that it was met with "overwhelmingly positive reaction."
[42]
In addition, the creator of
Steven Universe
,
Rebecca Sugar
was told point-blank by executives that queer romance could have ended her show,
Steven Universe
.
[43]
In 2020, Cartoon Network aired the final episodes of the Steven Universe epilogue miniseries
Steven Universe Future
.
[5]
One year before, some Alabama broadcasters had banned the
Arthur
episode titled "
Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone
", the Season 22 premiere, which featured Mr. Ratburn and Patrick marrying each other.
[44]
[45]
In October 2017, it was reported that a kiss between two female characters, Zarya Moonwolf and Kitty Boon, on the Nickelodeon show,
Mysticons
, was in danger of being cut.
[46]
Despite this, the show showed the "development of a female-female romance," between Zarya, a main character, and her childhood friend, Kitty, known as "MoonBoon," culminating in romantic moments.
[47]
Jara added that while he was nervous and aware of possible roadblocks, Matt Ferguson, the show's director, supported it, as did his writing team, with Ferguson adding that pushback came from not from people who were "evil" but rather from those who were "trying to do the best job at their particular job."
[48]
Abbey White of
Insider
reported that when the show's studio changed the series to center on four teenage girls, Jara brought in more women and queer writers to the show's writing team, who were "responsible for building out an arc between lesbian characters Zarya Moonwolf and Kitty Boon." Jara recalled that he sent in the script for a kiss of the two characters to the show's studios, and Nickelodeon, and fellow producers working on the show, but the moment never aired, despite support from Nickelodeon, because a partner was concerned that the storyline was not "age-appropriate" for young viewers.
[30]
In May 2021, in response to a fan,
Shadi Petosky
described to
Insider
the challenges in producing her
Danger & Eggs
which follows a "young
masc
lesbian," D.D. Danger, said that she felt emboldened when Amazon picked up the show, but noted that the inclusion of overt "queer themes and elements of LGBTQ culture," driven by a queer crew and cast, was a hard-fought battle with "little arguments, and battles, and suspensions" as the show was in production. For instance, she was told to use the term "Rainbow Parade" rather than use the word "Pride."
[49]
Previously, in February 2018 said that the show was in limbo, with the loss of the crew, without "much concern or enthusiasm" about the show, saying it "just slipped through the cracks." She lamented that the show's fate is up the new executive team on the show and predicted the show would probably be cancelled as a result.
[50]
Religious response
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Some groups have criticized LGBTQ representation in children's television, including
Christian fundamentalist
organizations like
Focus on the Family
,
American Family Association
, and
Traditional Values Coalition
[51]
[52]
[53]
and
socially conservative
Parents Television Council
.
The
Traditional Values Coalition
criticized a
Nickelodeon
program in June 2002 entitled
Nick News Special Edition: My Family Is Different
which featured children of gay and lesbian parents talking with children from households that oppose equal rights for gay and lesbian families, claiming it pushed a "pro-homosexual agenda" and was not suitable for children.
[54]
[55]
The
Parents Television Council
also claimed they had no problem with same-sex parents but did not think it was appropriate for Nickelodeon's young target audience.
[56]
Focus on the Family
, a
Christian fundamentalist
organization,
[51]
[57]
and the
American Family Association
,
[58]
also a Christian fundamentalist organization,
[59]
[53]
claimed that
SpongeBob
in
SpongeBob SquarePants
was "gay" or "homosexual propaganda",
[60]
joined by other organizations which said the same.
[61]
[62]
In response, series creator
Stephen Hillenburg
described Spongebob as asexual, not gay.
[63]
[64]
[65]
In 2016, it was revealed that Hillenburg instructed those working on the show that SpongeBob should never have a romantic relationship, since he is asexual (as all real-life sea sponges are) and is too innocent for it.
[66]
In 2010,
One Million Moms
, a project of
American Family Association
,
[67]
condemned an episode of
Clifford the Big Red Dog
aired on
Amazon Prime Video
and
PBS Kids
, titled "Dogbot", which featured Dr. and Rayla Mulberry, the two moms of Samantha Mulberry.
[68]
Four years later, One Million Moms and
Family Research Council
launched an email campaign against an episode of
Good Luck Charlie
which debuted the channel's first lesbian couple on January 26, 2014.
[69]
[70]
In May 2022, the
Peanuts
Mother's Day
special
Snoopy Presents: To Mom (and Dad), With Love
, which features a reference to same-sex couples due to the line "some families have two moms", received backlash from conservative Christians.
[
citation needed
]
In 2023, the
PBS Kids
series
Work It Out Wombats!
, which features Duffy and Leiko, the moms of Louisa, aired.
[71]
The series caused controversy among anti-LGBT groups and Governor of Oklahoma,
Kevin Stitt
vetoed a measure to provide funding to
Oklahoma Educational Television Authority
for airing
Work It Out Wombats!
and
Clifford the Big Red Dog
.
[72]
Awards
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Many children's television series have won or were nominated awards for their representation. In April 2018, the
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming
was first given at the
29th GLAAD Media Awards
to
Andi Mack
, a
comedy-drama
television series that aired on
Disney Channel
. Concerning the creation of this category, GLAAD CEO
Sarah Kate Ellis
stated that it was added to "raise the bar for current and future LGBTQ inclusion in this hugely popular and impactful genre", arguing about the importance of younger individuals, that are "coming out earlier and in greater numbers, [to] see their lives and experiences reflected in thoughtful, loving, and affirming ways".
[73]
Throughout the award's history, there have only been two instances where a tie occurred: in 2020 where
Hulu
's
The Bravest Knight
and
Disney+
's
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
won, and again the following year with Hulu's
First Day
and
Netflix
's
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
winning. At the
34th GLAAD Media Awards
in 2023, the award was split into Animated and Live Action categories.
In 2020, the
Arthur
episode entitled "
Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone
", the Season 22 premiere, was nominated for a
GLAAD Media Award
.
[74]
In 2021, the
Clifford the Big Red Dog
episode "Dogbot" won for was nominated for a
GLAAD Media Award
.
[75]
Also that year, the
Sesame Street
episode "Family Day" won a
GLAAD
award for Outstanding Children's Programming.
[76]
[77]
[78]
They returned in the season 53 episode "Family Picnic" which was nominated for a
GLAAD
award for Outstanding Children's Programming.
[79]
[80]
In 2022,
Power Rangers Dino Fury
won a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming.
[77]
The same year, the
Madagascar: A Little Wild
episode "Whatever Floats Your Float" was nominated for a
GLAAD Award
for Outstanding Children's Programming.
[76]
In 2023, the series was nominated again for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming.
[79]
Also,
The Bravest Knight
won a
GLAAD
award tied with
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
.
[
citation needed
]
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