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And yet Steven Universe continued past March, is popular and successful, and will go on to complete two more seasons at the least.


People don't seem to catch on to the fact that this isn't something that is "going to change." It already is changing. Steven Universe has gay main characters. Clarence has had gay characters and one of the main characters' parents are gay. There was the thing with Korrasami and Adventure Time seems to be itching closer to revealing how gay it's been all along. And these series aren't dying or getting a lot of controversy for it, either (with exceptions, Korra did bring that out just at the very end).

Granted, this is mostly CN I'm talking about, Disney and Nick seem less willing to do things like that. But it's no longer some distant far-off idea that one day we may see gay characters in shows aimed at kids. It's already a thing.

Will it happen in Power Rangers? Who knows, but it's definitely not something they "can't" do.

While you aren't at all wrong, there's probably a leap between doing it in a cartoon and doing it in a live-action franchise which is why it's taking its sweet time to happen. Steven Universe has gay characters yes, but it also kinda skirts around it by having said gay characters be agender space rocks.

Yeah, that's definitely true. Live action is a different beast than cartoons, but at the same time, also not completely unheard of. There was that one gay couple in one episode of Good Luck Charlie...which...was like, the second to last episode, but still. It's a thing.

The thing about the gems being technically agender always struck me as a peculiar technicality to bring up though. The casual viewer isn't going to know that gems are sexless, and the show itself doesn't actually bring it up, so for the purpose of looking at it as representation the fact that they are is not super meaningful. Like, would someone who is homophobic really care less just because they're aliens? I guess that's all kind of off topic though.

The only western live action "childrens show" I know of that has an openly gay character in it is Doctor Who. They never shyied away from showing that Captain Jack is really into men.

Is Doctor Who actually aimed at kids though? It always struck me as just being like...a regular, pseudo-family show. I mean, it had a spin-off that was explicitly aimed at a younger audience, that Sarah Jane Adventures show. It also had a more adult spin-off in Torchwood, so I always thought it was just like...middle of the road.

I honetly dont really know which is why I used quotation marks. Just the way I always heard people talk about it gave me the impression that its aimed at kids for the most part.

If I recall, Doctor Who was kind of like Star Trek in that they were kids shows in their initial era, but as time went on and their fans aged, but continued watching, they shifted from "Kid's show" to family show.

It's always been a family show.