From Bugs Bunny to SpongeBob: the cartoons that made the LGBTTTIQ+ community visible

The cartoons that marked our childhood with characters that perhaps, at that time, we did not understand why they behaved in such a way or because they dressed differently than the gender stereotypes marked by society. Now that we are adults, we understand concepts differently, because today the we analyze with a more critical eye.

Over the years, the LGBTTTIQ+ community has been looking for spaces that allow it to make visible who they are, how they are considered and how they relate. With the aim of implementing “non-discrimination” and inclusion in the new generations, characters belonging to this community were present in different cartoons.

Infobae shows you a list of characters belonging to LGBT+ who were part of our childhood.

The rabbit that made many laugh, on several occasions showed his feminine side and was observed very flirtatious moving his hips from side to side with his hand on his waist. Several times she used very striking outfits such as can-can skirts and even some other themed outfits.

Not to mention that sometimes her voice turned out to be very feminine and sometimes very masculine.

The character of Rojo in the cartoon The Cow and the Chick is a little devil who looked very happy to wear dresses and even a wig. In some chapters he was very flirtatious, with long eyelashes and moving his buttocks to the beat of the music.

He is a very powerful and extravagant demon who participated in the series The Powerpuffer Girls, he is characterized by being a character Trasvesti, because he loved to dress up in skirts, tutus and dresses. The dubbing of this character was done by Ricardo Hill and Óscar Flores, and it was sometimes heard that they were trying to make the voice sharper and more effeminate.

Several times in the series SpongeBob was seen trying on dresses and makeup together with his best friend Patricio Estrella. In fact, in one chapter, both got married.

The Cartoon Network series Steven Universe is also inclusive because it featured two characters belonging to this community. Ruby and Sapphire, are two gems that control low and high temperatures. They both fall in love and get married.

Also belonging to Cartoon Network, Adventure Time is a series that features Marceline, also known as The Vampire Queen, who is interested in The Sweet Princess. Both fall in love and in the series they are seen kissing.

Manga written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi, filled the childhood of many girls in Mexico during the 90s with joy, however, as the sequence featured homosexual characters, who showed very different ideals from that time, the series that was broadcast in Mexico was censored.

The character of Sailor Star Fighter was always interested in Serena, in fact, in some chapters he is very attentive to her, until he could no longer and kissed her.

Perhaps the most surprising case is that of Velma from the Scooby-Doo series, since in no chapter did she show interest in other women, however, screenwriter James Gunn, on Twitter commented that the Warner Bros. Pictures, in 2002 censored the character. This is how Gunn revealed that in the original script Velma was a lesbian.

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