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“Bluey, Bingo, Mum, Dad and all their family and friends are getting ready for the ‘wedding event of the year’, in an exciting special bursting with adventure, romance and – emergency toilet. Today, the "Paw Patrol" spinoff, "Rubble & Crew" on Nick Jr., has a nonbinary character named River, Disney Jr.'s "Doc McStuffins" shows an interracial lesbian couple named Thea and Edie, and "My.

Nestled within one of the episode’s stand-out scenes, Bluey also decided to announce that there is a gay couple within the Bluey universe. In Bluey, all types of family dynamics are represented: single parents or remarried parents, you name it, and they are included. In the season three finale, there’s a blink-and-miss-it reference to a same-sex couple.

The Australian children’s show Bluey is the latest object of right-wing outrage for briefly acknowledging that queer kids and families are everywhere. In the most recent episode of the series, the show made reference to its first same-sex couple, with a friend of Bluey's - a chihuahua named Pretzel - noting that he has two moms in an anecdote about his pet guinea pig. The beloved Australian animated series, " Bluey ," has taught our children "loads" of things, as Bluey's dad would say.

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It taught kids how to be patient, how to fail and try again and how to "run your own race. The show may have also taught viewers about the many types of family structures in a recent episode called " The Sign. In a brief and otherwise ordinary moment, a character named Pretzel seemed to say, "When my guinea pig ran away, my mums told me he might come back. But he didn't. Did the show intend for Pretzel to have two mothers?

It's hard to say, especially since U. We've reached out to Disney for confirmation but did not receive a reply by the time of publication. One of the first "coded" characters is none other than Bugs Bunny, Thompson says. Introduced in , he often wore women's clothing and kissed male characters, like Elmer Fudd, on the lips. The series ran from to , but it wasn't until years after it ended that creator Mike Young revealed Skeleton's true identity.

Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Ellen DeGeneres came out in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in As politics and adult-focused entertainment began to shift, so did kids' programming. The path to slightly increased nuance and understanding in entertainment didn't run smoothly, however.

There were some major hiccups along the way, including two in that stand out. Two characters may have held hands or walked off into the sunset When we were mainly watching cable television, there was a bigger chance that kids would all be watching the same shows. But with the "added real estate of streaming services, television isn't as mainstream as it used to be," says Thompson. It can feel less risky for a streaming service to take a chance on diverse characters than it would for a cable show.

Children's shows are especially problematic in terms of representation, Thompson says, because you not only have to appeal to the intended viewer, you also have to appeal to the gatekeeper: the parent. Thompson notes that there may still be an ongoing struggle between adults who think kids' shows should accurately reflect the world we live in and those who "think kid shows should erase all kinds of things about the world we live in, including the existence and the very identity of many of our fellow citizens.

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