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IronBornCorps posted...

I think if kids are ready to see hetero relationships, they can see queer ones.

*Edit* obviously these relationships would not be sexualized or explicitly displayed, but it's not a big deal for a character to have gay parents or something to the affect in a kids show.

This. Having a gay relationship doesn't have to involve "sexualizing" the content any more than having a straight relationship does. You can indicate it just fine with "these are my dads" or "this is my wife" or a kiss/hand-hold or the like.

keyblader1985 posted...

I mean there's already plenty of gay characters and couples in mainstream kids' shows. Movies wouldn't really make much difference.

Now, yeah. In the early 2000's? Much less so. Bear in mind that that was well before gay marriage really started to gain traction anywhere in the world, let alone the US. Massachusetts was the first state to legalize it, and that was only in 2004, 2 years after this movie came out. Nobody else really started following suit until legislation finally made it through in California in 2008, and then support gradually spread from there. Including a gay relationship in a kids' movie in 2002 would have been a pretty significant deal, as trivial as it seems now.

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