Why are gays on childrens tv

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Once upon a occasion in children's television land frogs were kissed but princesses only ever married princes.

Now Prince Charming might just as easily ride off into the sunset with another male, as happens in the hit recent Hulu cartoon series, "The Bravest Knight", while the Disney Channel has just had its first gay romance in its live-action tween show "Andi Mack".

Program makers are struggling to better reflect the world young people are growing up in, with the first tentative steps to embrace non-traditional families and LGBTQ characters.

But even as experts warn that it is key for children's well-being to see their reality mirrored on screen, the backlash against some of the first wave of gay characters has been sharp.

Earlier this year the Alabama affiliate of the US universal broadcaster PBS pulled the same-sex wedding episode of its popular animated demonstrate "Arthur" in which the teacher Mr Ratburn marries his "special someone".

'We can't not talk about it'

Yet Nickelodeon introduced a bi-racial lgbtq+ couple into its "The Loud House" three years ago, and two female characters married

The evolution of queer characters in kids' animated TV shows

Following is a entire transcript of the video.

Steven:We are gathered here today to celebrate Ruby and Sapphire.

Narrator: You're looking at the first LGBTQ wedding in a kids' animated show. And this is the first kids' animated character to directly recognize themselves as gay.

Benson: Yes! Because I'm lgbtq+.

Narrator: These are just a few examples in a recent push to include more queer voice in children's animated shows and movies. But it took a long second and a lot of work to get here, battling decades of harmful stereotypes and queer-coded villains.

Rebecca Sugar: You grasp, it was just a matter of not so much busting down these walls, but just very slowly chipping away at them for years and years and years and years.

Narrator: Let's accept a look at how we got to this from this.

This is a scene from the 1933 animated Flip the Frog short "Soda Squirt." The flamboyant character turned Hyde-like monster pretty much sums up to the extent to which "queer" characters appeared on screen at the time.

A year later, in 1934, the Motion Picture Association of America started enforcing the Hay

Children's Television and its Effects on LGBTQ Youths’ Identity Milestones, Acceptance, and Comfort in Identity

Authors

Ingrid Schaefer Leonardtown High School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v12i4.5212

Keywords:

LGBTQ, Childrens TV, television, Child Development, child psychology, LGBTQ Youth, Gender Identity, identity formation, adolescents & young adults, Traditional Media

Abstract

Television has the control to influence and switch a viewer's beliefs through the content and characters of a show. This study investigates to what extent the television LGBTQ young adults watched as a child affects their sexuality and gender culture development later on in life. My hypotheses were that watching representative television as a child would increase self-acceptance, lower the age of identity milestones, create positive views on the content of children's television, and increase comfort in identity. This explore utilizes a mixed-methods survey for LGBTQ indiv

In recent years we’ve witnessed a sharp uptick in LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream media, and we’re not just talking about the occasional reality contestant or drama storyline. Shows appreciate long-running reality format Drag Race, vogueing drama Pose and a revival of makeover series Queer Eye have successfully put Queer stories on the mainstream map, paving the way for more exciting television celebrating the community as well as raising consciousness about its struggles in what can be a less-than-accepting world.

Children’s TV too has been taking strides of late, but peek around and you’ll strife to find a exhibit with LGBTQ+ representation at its core that’s anywhere near as successful and broadly appealing as the aforementioned hits amongst adults. Homophobia remains rife around the world, and many parents simply don’t long their kids exposed to media that encourages acceptance of something they deeply disapprove of. For this reason, kidcasters have extended opted to play it safe, limiting their coverage of the subject to the bare minimum or avoiding it all together, but change is certainly in the air.

This June Nickelodeon made headlines when – while mark

What do we relate the kids? Children's TV struggles with LGBTQ characters

Once upon a time in children's television territory frogs were kissed but princesses only ever married princes.

Now Prince Charming might just as easily ride off into the sunset with another man, as happens in the hit new Hulu cartoon series, "The Bravest Knight", while the Disney Channel has just had its first lgbtq+ romance in its live-action tween production "Andi Mack".

Program makers are struggling to better reflect the world young people are growing up in, with the first tentative steps to embrace non-traditional families and LGBTQ characters.

But even as experts warn that it is key for children's well-being to see their reality mirrored on screen, the backlash against some of the first wave of gay characters has been sharp.

Earlier this year the Alabama affiliate of the US common broadcaster PBS pulled the same-sex wedding episode of its popular animated present "Arthur" in which the teacher Mr Ratburn marries his "special someone".

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