History of LGBT characters in animation: 2000s
The depiction of LGBTQ characters in Western animated series in the 2000s changed significantly from the
Trends
There was under-representation of gay characters through the Fall 2000 television season for all broadcast shows, with trend continuing until at least 2003.
Animation for adults
The 2000s saw various animated series targeted primarily to adults on
, and other platforms.Fox and FX
A gay pedophile named Herbert was first introduced in the 2001 Family Guy episode "To Love and Die in Dixie". He was described by his voice actor Mike Henry as an "old man who likes Chris" and often makes "inappropriate, sexually tinged comments to teenage boys."[15][16]
From June 2001 to September 2004,
In January 2002, The Simpsons continued teasing of the sexual orientation of Smithers as he rode a float called "Stayin’ in the Closet!" during the annual gay pride parade in Springfield in the episode "Jaws Wired Shut".[19]
In April 2002, the
In April 2003, The Simpsons episode, "Three Gays of the Condo" aired. It introduced a stereotypical on-and-off-again gay couple, Grady and Julio.[22] Homer meets them when he moves into Springfield's gay district, after an argument with Marge. Later, after Springfield legalized gay marriage, Homer becomes ordained as a minister and marries Grady and Julio, in the episode "There's Something About Marrying", and talks about the segmented state of gay marriage in America in his speech as minister.[23] Grady even tries to date Smithers as shown in the 2016 episode "The Burns Cage."[24] At another point,
In July 2003, the Futurama episode "Bend Her" would air on FOX. While some praised this episode, Bender cross-dresses as a female robot under the name of Coilette to participate in the fembot league of the Earth 3004 Olympic Games where he claims five gold medals in the competition, other criticized it. [18] Critics argued hat the episode furthered the narrative that trans women are deceptive, coupled with the hurtful language and imagery" which surrounds the physical transition process Bender undergoes.[25] The show also had one-time LGBTQ+ characters like Enos Fry and Old Man Waterfall who were killed off before the end of their respective episodes.[26][27]
On February 6, 2005, the series
On February 20, 2005, Patty Maleficent, the sister of Marge Simpson, came out as lesbian in the Simpsons episode "There's Something About Marrying". She was described by animation and popular culture scholar Jo Johnson as a character, considered by the show, as a "better candidate for 'outing' than Wayland Smithers," and that her lesbianism is explained by her "inability to find an eligible man in Springfield."[35] At the end of the episode, she declares, after finding out the person she had been trying to enter a relationship with is a man, that she likes girls, which Johnson described as "subversive" move by the show.[36] However, in the episode, when she came out as lesbian, her family initially didn't support her but they eventually came around and supported her.[37] Some criticized her character as a "background gay character," but not like characters such as Ren and Stimpy in the cartoon of the same name which were confirmed as gay outside the show's universe.[38]
In January 2006, a Family Guy episode, "Brian Sings and Swings", would feature featured a one-time lesbian character named Sarah who mistakes Meg's sentences as invitations to have sex.[39][40]
In February 2006, in "
In April 2006, in the Family Guy episode "You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives", Jasper, the gay cousin of the series protagonist, Brian Griffin, is prominently featured.[41]
From April to November 2009, Sit Down, Shut Up aired on FOX. In the show, one character, Andrew, is a flamboyant, and bisexual, Latino drama teacher whose last name in Spanish roughly translates to "he likes both", a reference to his sexual orientation.[42] He is in love with Larry Littlejunk and Miracle Grohe, with whom he hopes to get into a relationship should they become a couple.
In August 2009, Stewie Griffin would be described by the creator of Family Guy Seth MacFarlane as "gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual."[43] [14] A few years earlier, the Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story direct-to-DVD film, broadcast on the FOX network in May 2006, would have Stewie explore his identity.[44] Some media critics noted the "cross-species marriage" between Brian's Cousin and a human lover, but stated that Stewie is the "most interesting" portrayal of homosexuality in the series.[45]
In September 2009,
Adult Swim
From April 2001 to October 2002, The Oblongs, aired, first on The WB, then on Adult Swim. The series included a trans woman named Anna Bidet as a character.[18]
In December 2005, in the first episode of
In February 2006, in the Moral Orel episode "The Blessed Union,"
In September 2006,
In the July 2008 episode of The Venture Bros., "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman," Virginia "Ginnie" Dunne, who is Dr. Quymn's bodyguard, is shown to be a lesbian[55] who is trying to convert Dr. Quymn. She is also very masculine and a reported "man-hater.".[56]
In September 2008, Superjail! first broadcast on Adult Swim. One of the protagonists would be Alice, a hulking and muscular head prison guard of Superjail and a trans woman[57] who regularly engages in sadomasochistic rituals with the prisoners. Other characters in the series included Jean Baptiste Le Ghei and Paul Guaye, inmates and a recurring couple as shown in the episode "Superbar" and others. In an interview with the creators of the show, co-creator Christy Karacas called them well-rounded characters, who are a couple, with Paul as more feminine and intelligent than Jean who is "the bad boy."[58]
Comedy Central
In the June 2001, the
In November 2002, in the South Park episode "
Garrison, himself, would be, in the series, originally presented as a
The October 2003 South Park episode "
In November 2004, in the
From October to November 2006, Freak Show, an adult animated series that centered on a superhero team called The Freak Squad, who also worked at a freak show, aired on Comedy Central. While the series only ran for one season, it featured a character named "Log Cabin Republican," a gay conservative whose superpower was called Burly Bear.[80]
In March 2007, the South Park episode "Cartman Sucks" premiered, introducing a one-time character, Bradley. He would have a crush on another male character, Butters.[81] It is also said that while this episode seems to be progressive, in that it shows that conversion therapy camps do more harm than good, its portrayal of this "essentializes sexuality and subsequently characterizes homosexuality as disorder or pathology," and as a genetic mistake and it suggests there is more injustice for non-gays than those in the conversion camps.[82]
Other adult animations
In 2000, She is in a relationship with Yvette, in episodes such as "Homo for the Holidays," and the movie.
From 2004 to 2009, Brother Ken appeared in
In 2007, a friendly and flirtatious Vietnamese trans woman, who runs a salon, named Cherry Pie, debuted in
Also in 2007,
Two lesbian couples (Mo and Trish, Souki and Jenn) appeared in a June 19, 2009 episode of ABC's The Goode Family, "A Tale of Two Lesbians".[97][98] GLAAD praised this show, noting that Mo and Trish were recurring characters.[9]
All-ages animation
The 2000s saw the premiere of
Cartoon Network
Time Squad which aired from 2001 to 2003 on Cartoon Network, arguably had an LGBTQ character. In 2012, the voice actor of Larry 3000, Mark Hamill, implied that Larry could easily have been interpreted as gay,[100] due to his femininity and presentation as the "gay best friend" to Cleopatra in "Shop like an Egyptian", even though Larry has stated on multiple occasions he dislikes humans in general. However, the show never directly stated his sexuality. Even so, Hamill described Larry 3000 as "fierce" and "flamboyant."[101]
In the August 2005 episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, titled "One Crazy Summoner", it was revealed that Dean Toadblatt and Squidhat, were gay lovers, marrying each other in the episode. One critic noted that while you could call them Cartoon Network's "first gay couple," it was actually Steven Universe, also airing on Cartoon Network, that "broke down representation barriers" years later.[102]
In 2009, Rebecca Sugar pitched her seven-minute short for a show called Steven Universe to Cartoon Network, a show which would premiere many years later.[103] In 2010, Sugar began working on Adventure Time, starting to change CN's then-focus on "boys" programming, even during a pitch meeting for Steven Universe the year before.[104]
Other all-ages animations
From 2000 to 2004, Static Shock aired on Kids' WB. On September 23, 2000, Richard "Richie" Osgood Foley, best friend of Static/Virgil, Richie, also known as Gear, was introduced. He was based on an openly gay character named Rick Stone from the original comic. Dwayne McDuffie, one of the show's creators, said he dealt with the homosexuality of Richie by writing him "aggressively and unconvincingly announcing his heterosexuality whenever possible...while Virgil rolled his eyes at the transparency of it" but it never came up in the show because it was rated Y-7.[105]
A
In October 2002, in response to criticism from
From December 2004 to December 2006,
In 2006, Lizzy the Lezzy premiered on Myspace, including LGBTQ+ characters like Lizzy, a lesbian.[120] The show would later air on YouTube.
In September 2007, Dottie's Magic Pockets became the first available show for children in gay and lesbian families.[121]
In February 2021, Ralph Farquhar revealed that in The Proud Family, which aired on the Disney Channel from 2001 to 2005, they had to use "code to talk about if Michael was gay, to talk about sexuality" and to be "sort of underhanded about it." He said this changed with The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder with the biggest changes to the show ere "gender identity, obviously racial identity and quote-unquote wokeness,” and said that sexuality can be "sort of in your face with it a lot more," manifesting itself in the storytelling.[122]
Animated films
In 2003,
In 2004, a 10-minute
In June 2007, the film
In June 2008,
In February 2009,
On April 9, 2009,
Timeline of key events
- October 9, 2002: Stephen Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, says that SpongeBob is not gay, but is asexual.[110]
- August 7, 2004: Colonel Horace Gentleman.
- September 22, 2004: fa'afafine, a Samoan concept for a third gender.[90]
- October 27, 2004: Drawn Together begins airing on Comedy Central. It will feature, during its three-year run, a number of LGBTQ characters, some of which are in the show's main cast like Captain Leslie Hero and Foxxy Love.
- February 6, 2005: American Dad! began airing on Fox,[151] introducing Roger, a pansexual protagonist.
- June 24, 2008: non-binary character "defined as such" in the history of animation.[133]
- September 17, 2009: Archer begins airing on FX. The series would feature various LGBTQ characters.
See also
- LGBT representation in animated web series
- LGBT representation in American adult animation
- LGBT children's television programming
- List of animated series with LGBT characters
- History of homosexuality in American film
- History of anime
- Media portrayals of bisexuality
- Media portrayal of lesbianism
- List of LGBT-related films by year
- Cross-dressing in film and television
- List of animated series with crossdressing characters
- List of anime by release date (1946–1959)
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