>>9534490That shit didn't really start until like that one episode of Arthur appeared where Buster comments on a lesbian couple and how there's two moms.
This was the only example and people were outraged over it at the time and it was national news-
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2005/01/28/pbs-pulls-episode-of-buster-over-lesbian-moms/>Network officials, among them PBS president Pat Mitchell, had viewed the episode of Postcards from Buster, scheduled to air Wednesday, and called it appropriate. But that was before Education Secretary Margaret Spellings denounced the program, starring Buster Baxter, a cute animated rabbit who until now has been known primarily as a close friend of Arthur, the world's most famous aardvark. Spellings said many parents would not want children exposed to a lesbian lifestyle.After that it didn't become a trend until shows like Steven Universe was a thing. And it's somewhat shocking seeing older cartoons and media and what media attitudes towards gays, lesbians, and trans people were like before the 2010s.
>>9534493Gay characters in older shows were usually coded gay, such as the teacher in Hey Arnold, but not shown or explicitly talked about.
>sesame streetFrank Oz was cancelled back in 2018 for telling someone on twitter that Bert and Ernie weren't gay, in response to some gay writer saying they were.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/frank-oz-weighs-sesame-street-writer-saying-bert-ernie-are-n910946>"I created Bert. I know what and who he is," Frank Oz wrote on Twitter in response to a user who asked why the characters couldn't be gay.The guy who played Yoda was condemned for saying that the characters he was involved in creating weren't gay and he didn't like revisionists coming in later to try and change them for their social and political agenda.
