LGBT representation in American adult animation

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LGBT representation in American adult animation has been ongoing for years. In the 1990s and 2000s, gay and trans characters appeared in The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and The Nutshack, while in the 2010s and 2020s lesbian characters appeared in series such as Brickleberry and Final Space. In later years, bisexual characters appeared in Bob's Burgers and HouseBroken. At the same time, American Dad! and Drawn Together had pansexual characters, while The Cleveland Show and Rick and Morty had characters which were implied to be pansexual. Other prominent adult animations with LGBTQ characters included Queer Duck, The Venture Bros., The Awesomes, Archer, Harley Quinn, Invincible, Tuca and Bertie, Magical Girl Friendship Squad, and Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Lesbian characters[]

See also: List of lesbian characters in animation

Adult animated series have occassionally featured lesbian characters. They primarily appeared in The Venture Bros., Brickleberry, Final Space, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, among many other series.

In The Venture Bros., Virginia "Ginnie" Dunne, who is Dr. Quymn's bodyguard, is very masculine, and a reported "man-hater.".[1] In the episode "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman," she is shown to be a lesbian[2] who is trying to convert Dr. Quymn. Brickleberry would introduce a character named Constance Beatrice "Connie" Cunaman.[3] She is a lesbian park ranger who challenged the homophobia of her parents and was obsessed with Ethel.[4][5] The show's creators confirmed this assessment in an interview.[6]

In the Final Space episode, "Forgiveness," on May 8, 2021, Ash Graven meets a genderless being named Evra, voiced by Jasmin Savoy Brown. Evra becomes Ash's friend and helps her "take her anger out," with both sitting and watching a formation of lights like the aurora borealis together.[7][8] Her relationship with Evra makes clear her sexual orientation as a lesbian woman,[9] in addition to being angry at a man named Jordan Hammerstein, in the episode "Arachnitects," for rejecting her at prom. Rogers, in a podcast about the episode "Forgiveness" that David Sacks, who wrote the episode, came from a place of "two souls connecting to each other" and noted that if the show had fourth season, they would have expand on the relationship between Evra and Ash.[10] However, the series was cancelled on September 10, 2021 before it could ever happen.[11] One reviewer argued that having Ash as a lesbian character was "one of the best representations of LGBTQ characters in mature animation for some time," as shown in the episode "Forgiveness," and saying she is a lesbian, not "ambiguously bi."[12] The reviewer also noted that Ash, even as an antagonist, does not "fulfill common stereotypes or tropes," comparing her experience to the manipulation of Cassandra in the final season of Tangled by Zhan Tiri, saying both are complex characters who experience trauma and have "troubled pasts," with Invictus exploiting Ash's Trauma triggers. The review ends by noting Ash's development through the series, with Evra helping her grow, and hoping the series would "move forward mature animation in a better and more inclusive direction" if there was another season.

The creator of Star Trek: Lower Decks, Mike McMahan, in October 2020, confirmed that Captain Amina Ramsey was Beckett Mariner's former lover at Starfleet Academy, even though it wasn't explicit, saying that "every Starfleet officer is probably at the baseline bisexual" in a sense, and that they did not "intentionally mean for anybody to be strictly heteronormative or straight or cis." However, he promised to do better in the show's second season, saying they would dig into it more, saying that the show could, in the future, more explicitly state "things that the writers always knew about Mariner."[13]

Assorted lesbian characters appeared in The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, The Awesomes, Bob's Burgers, Moral Orel. Queer Duck, and The Goode Family. For example, The Simpsons has a white lesbian character named Patty Bouvier,[14] the sister of Marge Bouvier, who is Homer's wife. It wouldn't be until February 20, 2005, in the episode "There's Something About Marrying" that Patty would come out as lesbian. Family Guy featured a one-time lesbian character named Sarah[15] who mistakes Meg's sentences as invitations to have sex.[16] Ms. Ellen in South Park is a lesbian teacher.[17][18] Hulu's The Awesomes features a supervillain, Tomboy, originally presenting as Gadget Gal's nemesis, she is outed in "Baby Got Backstory", as using the feud to cope with her own romantic feelings for her, in episodes like "Baby Got Backstory."[19] A lesbian limousine driver named Nat Kinkle, whose ex-girlfriend runs an animal sanctuary, appeared in episodes of Bob's Burgers.[20] Stephanie Foamwire-Putty is a lesbian character in Moral Orel who's revealed to have fallen in unrequited love with her old high school best friend, Kim Latchkey.[21] Melissa Duckstein, is Adam's sister, is occasionally revealed to be lesbian throughout Queer Duck.[22] She is in a relationship with Yvette, in episodes such as "Homo for the Holidays," and the movie. In an episode of ABC's The Goode Family, "A Tale of Two Lesbians", on June 19, 2009, there were two lesbian couples: Mo and Trish, Souki and Jenn.[23][24] GLAAD praised this show, noting that Mo and Trish were recurring characters.[25]

Gay characters[]

See also: List of gay characters in animation

Adult animations have often featured gay characters over the years. The Simpsons, which began in 1989, and South Park, which began in 1997, have the lions share of gay characters in such animations. While the 2020s series, The Great North, which had a gay protagonist, was one of the many adult animations with gay characters in the 2020s, along with those in the 2000s and 2010s.

The Simpsons[]

Matt Groening, who created Futurama and The Simpsons, at the 2009 Comic Con in San Diego.

The first episode of The Simpsons, on December 17, 1989, featured a gay character, Waylon Smithers, named after gay puppeteer Wayland Flowers.[26][27] However, like other shows at the time, The Simpsons approached the subject gingerly, not drawing much attention to the sexuality of Smithers,[28] as he remained in the closet, officially, until 2016.[29]

The often teased the sexual orientation of Smithers, like when he rode a float called “Stayin’ in the Closet!” during the annual gay pride parade in Springfield in the episode "Jaws Wired Shut" in January 2002.[30] In The Simpsons episode, "The Burns Cage", which aired on FOX on November 13, 2018, Smithers came out, officially, as gay.[31][32] Although some called the episode disappointing,[33] or critical of Smithers as a form of gay representation,[34][35] others cited it as an example of how LGBTQ+ characters in television had become more accepted.[36][37][38]

The episode, "Homer's Phobia", February 16, 1997, featured John Waters, a gay filmmaker. In the episode he voices a gay male character who helps Homer Simpson confront his homophobia.[39] The episode also pokes at general homophobia in U.S. society as a whole.[29] The episode, which aired two months before Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on her sitcom, Ellen,[40] came during a time there were unspoken limits on what LGBTQ content could be shown on TV.[29] It was an improvement from Simpson and Delilah in October 1990, which featured a stylish assistant, Karl, who helped Homer, whose sexuality is never mentioned even though the person voicing him (Harvey Fierstein) is a gay playwright,[41][42][43] In the episode, Karl and Homer kiss in what some say is the first animated male-male kiss to air on network television, prior to the gay kiss in the May 2000 Dawson's Creek episode, "True Love".[44] Creator Matt Groening, when asked in a 1991 interview if Karl was gay, said "he's whatever you want him to be" and added that including Karl was "beyond any other cartoon," even though some gay viewers were disappointed that the character didn't identify himself as gay.[45] Some argued that "Homer's Phobia" did more, in terms of awareness and exposing intolerance, than "any live action show at the time."[46] The Simpsons also had a stereotypical on-and-off-again gay couple, Grady and Julio.[47]

South Park[]

In the fourth episode of South Park, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride", a flamboyant homosexual man named Big Gay Al, who ran an animal sanctuary with gay animals, appears.[48] In the course of the show, Big Gay Al would openly display his homosexuality and be an open advocate for gay rights. Despite this array of characters,[30] the show made it clear that cartoons are not only for kids, like The Simpsons, but it did not counter the idea that it is "inappropriate to expose kids to the existence of queer people."[49] In later years, the show would introduce the boyfriend of Mrs. Garrison (Mr. Slave),[50] while Bradley in South Park has a crush on another male character, Butters.[51]

In later years Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak were confirmed as a gay couple,[52][53] Saddam Hussein and Satan were a gay couple.[54]

The Great North[]

The FOX adult animated sitcom, The Great North, has an openly gay character: Ham Tobin, played by Paul Rust, is the middle son of Beef Tobin.[55] Ham is a teen trying to find their place in the world and comes out to his family as gay, even though he did so in the past.[56] He eventually gets into a relationship with Crispin Cienfuegos, a teen that his sister Judy previously had a crush on until she realized that he is gay.[57]

In March 2021, Taylor Henderson of Pride.com interviewed a gay staff writer on the series, Charlie Kelly, who told her that it is "really exciting" to work on something where queerness of characters is not "a source of drama or emotional tension" and was blown away by the pilot in having a "super-evolved, grounded take on a gay teen."[58] Kelly praised the kiss between Ham and Crispin, saying it might be a "first for primetime animation in terms of a real gay kiss" and to have a gay character in the main cast of a broadcast animation, adding that having gay love stories on television with a focus on romance and not "shame, bullying, sickness, or family strife is important," saying that showing positive outcomes for queer characters is vital.

Assorted series[]

Crapston Villas aired on Channel 4, a British broadcasting channel, in the 1990s, This show would be one of the first animated series on British television to present openly gay characters, specifically Robbie and Larry.[59][60] Clone High, which aired on MTV and Teletoon from 2002 to 2003, featured a gay couple: the foster dads of JFK, named Wally and Carl in Clone High.[61] Phil and Chris would say they are gay lovers if it was "convenient."[62]

Space Ghost Coast to Coast, included a gay character. In December 25, 1994, Lokar, a locust alien and member of the Council of Doom, was introduced in an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Supplementary material for the series had Lokar referred to himself as a Confirmed bachelor while an article on the official Cartoon Network website featured a reference to a slang word for gay sex.[63][64] His sexuality was confirmed in audio commentaries for the Space Ghost Coast to Coast Volume 2 DVD and it was revealed that Lokar died at some point during the series.[65][66] However this was eventually contradicted when Lokar returned in the Season 11 episode "Stephen" in where he is shown to be alive and well.

Adult Swim Headquarters on Williams Street in Atlanta, GA in late April 2019

In The Venture Bros., Colonel Horace Gentleman is always, openly, and proudly gay.[67] However, he has an ex-wife, Mz. Quymn, as indicated in the episode "Dr. Quymn, Medicine Woman," and a former lover, Kiki, shown in the episode "Past Tense," who he lived with at his home in Tangiers, Morocco for years. Also, The Alchemist and Shore Leave were in an on-again, off-again relationship, shown in episodes such as "Fallen Arches." According to the show creators, The Alchemist is gay in a way that is "just incidental" while Shore Leave is a very "openly swishy queer proud guy."[67] Mission Hill, which aired on The WB from 1999 to 2000 and Adult Swim in 2002, Gus Duncz and Wally Langford, a gay elderly couple in their late 60s, even winning an award from GLAAD for this representation.[68]

Queer Duck, which premiered on Icebox, and later streamed on Showtime, was the first U.S. animated TV series to have homosexuality as a major theme,[69] Itwas produced by Mike Reiss, a producer of Simpsons and The Critic.[70] beginning in 2000. It was received positively by some in the LGBTQ+ community since it had lesbian, gay, and bisexual characters. This included Adam Seymour Duckstein, the main character of the series. He is presented as a stereotypical gay duck[71] and has been a victim of gay bashing.[69] However, in the series finale, he wakes up to discover that he had sex with a woman. Steven Arlo Gator was Queer Duck's significant other,[69] and latter married Queer Duck in a Jewish Wedding in Vermont in one episode, "Wedding Bell Blues."

Like The Simpsons, Family Guy, which also aired on FOX, had various gay characters. Jasper was the gay cousin of the series protagonist[72] and there was a gay pedophile named Herbert.[73][74] The show also featured an effeminate man named Bruce.[73]

Xandir P. Wifflebottom, a "young video game warrior, is labeled as a "totally gay video game adventurer" during the first episode of Drawn Together and is on and on a never-ending quest to save his girlfriend.[75][76][77] In a later episode, "Gay Bash," he comes to terms with his homosexuality after having his arm bitten off by the Wood Beast, a creature that determines a person's sexuality by biting off the arms of homosexuals and keeping the arms of heterosexuals intact.[78] In another episode, "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree," Xandir has an affair with Captain Hero's gay alter ego, Tim Tommerson. Freak Show, an adult animated series that centered on a superhero team called The Freak Squad, featured Log Cabin Republican, a gay conservative whose superpower was called Burly Bear.[79]

Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World aired on Logo TV from 2007 to 2009. It was a satiric comedy which featured the "only Filipino-American and gay lead character on television" at the time.[80] It would feature a lesbian couple and two gay couples. During the series, the gay couple Rick Brocka, a Filipino-American, and Steve Ball have a baby with the lesbian couple Dana and Kirsten.[81][82] Chuck Masters and Evan Martinez are a male gay couple as indicated in episodes like "Mom Fight," with Chuck helping Evan with his drug addiction.[83][84] Dana Bernstein and Kirsten Kellogg additionally have a baby with the gay couple, Rick and Steve.[81]

Woodhouse, the personal valet of Archer in Archer,[85] is of ambiguous sexuality. He had a romantic and sexual attraction to another man, Reggie, during the First World War, but it has not been specified whether he has ever had any sexual feelings for anyone since Reggie's death.[86] After his voice actor, George Coe passed away, the show did a tribute to Woodhouse,[87] who later had a funeral, becoming a plot thread followed up on in the show's eighth season.[88] In the same series, Ray Gillette is an openly gay secret agent, and a former Olympic medalist in skiing.[89][90]

Hulu's The Awesomes had two gay characters. One was Zip Danger / "Frantic", a "crazy fast" reject from a circus show,[91][92] who is forcibly outed under media pressure in "The Awesomes' Awesome Show."[93] He later falls for Christopher, a member of villain team The Gay Mafia. Then there is The Gayfather, the leader of villain team The Gay Mafia, including members like Christopher and Steven, who makes his debut in "The Gayfather".[94] Christopher falls for Frantic immediately upon meeting him, and sabotages his team's efforts as a result.

Freedom Fighters: The Ray aired on CW Seed from 2017 to 2018. The show would feature a gay superhero, Ray, and his gay friend, John. In an early episode, Ray would fail to ask a man on a date,[95] and would struggle in coming out to conservative parents,[96] and in a later episode, Jacob would become his lover.

In an episode of Harley Quinn, Clayface, a member of Harley's villain crew, was revealed as gay character who had a crush on a male student.[97][98] Crossing Swords features Ruben, Patrick's brother. He is revealed to be gay when he is shown having sex with Holden in the episode "The A-Moooo-Zing Race".[99]

The adult animated Amazon Prime Video series, Invincible, which began in late March 2021, included a gay character, William Francis Clockwell. He is Mark Grayson's best friend who has a crush on Mark's dad Omni-Man and is voiced by openly gay actor Andrew Rannells.[100] In the episode "You Look Kinda Dead", he visits his ex-boyfriend Rick Sheridan (voiced by Jonathan Groff) who goes to Upstate University. Rick is turned into a cyborg by young mad scientist DA Sinclair.[101]

One-time and short-lived characters[]

David X. Cohen at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con; he developed the Futurama series along with Matt Groening

One-time and short-lived gay characters appeared in many series. Futurama, also created by Groening, had some one-time LGBTQ+ characters. This included Enos Fry and Old Man Waterfall who were killed off before the end of their respective episodes.[102][103] Jean Baptiste Le Ghei and Paul Guaye are inmates and a recurring couple as shown in the Superjail! 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."[104] In an episode of The Boondocks, aired in June 2015, many gay characters appeared, including Gangstalicious, a closet homosexual who goes to great lengths to keep his identity as a gay man hidden from the public.[105][106] Marquess of Queensbury, appeared on Mike Tyson Mysteries, which started in October 27, 2014. Eric Thurm of The A.V. Club argued that Marquess was a gay character[107] and he was based on a man named John Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry.

In The Cleveland Show, a spin-off of Family Guy, there are also gay characters. This included Lloyd Waterman, Cleveland's boss at Waterman Cables, is shown to be gay, despite been married to his wife, who is aware of his homosexuality. He is attracted to his employee, Terry, as indicated in the episode "Birth of a Salesman," and has a gay lover as shown in the episode "Who Done Did It?"[108] American Dad! also had a gay couple: Greg Corbin and Terry Bates, who were regular characters for many years.[109][110][111] King of the Hill featured gay characters who became a couple: Bug Gribble and Juan Pedro.[112] Braceface which aired on Teletoon and the Fox Family Channel, included a canon gay character named Mark "Dion" Jones.[113] The short-lived show, Allen Gregory, featured a gay father of the protagonist, Richard De Longpre, and his husband, Jeremy, who previously had a wife and children.[114][115] Phillip "Chozen" Cullens, a white, gay, aspiring rap superstar premiered in the FX series, Chozen. He was in a relationship with fratboy-type Hunter, with their relationship developing throughout the series.[116] An unnamed gay couple would appear in an episode of Duncanville[117] and in another episode, a male assistant of the Oakdale town mayor, Mayor Jen, mentions unnamed boyfriend.[118] HouseBroken features Stelios and Brett, a human male same-sex couple who are the owners of Tabitha.[119]

Bisexual characters[]

See also: List of bisexual characters in animation

Bisexual characters appeared in some adult animated series in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s.

1990s and 2000s[]

Sexually promiscuous Liane Cartman, the mother of Cartman in South Park, is be bisexual,[120] as is Stephen Stotch. He is regular customer at the local gay theater & bath house.[121] Meg Griffin and Stewie Griffin, in Family Guy, would be confirmed as bisexual,[15][122][citation needed]

Ling-Ling, an Asian trading-card mini-monster in Drawn Together is identified as bisexual by a parody of The Terminator in the episode "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable!"[75][77][78] Some scholars criticized Ling-Ling for being a stereotypical Asian character but also said that through him the audience can take a look at "the racist disposition of Western culture towards Eastern culture.".[78] Foxxy Love, a "sexy mystery-solver," in the same show, has relations with both men and women, but preferably with the former, as she makes out with Princess Clara in the show's first episode, and has a brief BDSM relationship with Captain Hero in another episode, "Requiem for a Reality Show."[77][75][78]

Moral Orel, first released December 2005, had at various LGBTQ+ characters. Coach Daniel Stopframe was Orel's bisexual coach as well as Shapey's biological father,[21] Daniel lusts after their father, Clay,[123] and at one point has sex with three women and a dog in episodes like "The Blessed Union."

In Archer, Pam Poovey is the bisexual director of human resources.[124] In a behind-the-scenes feature, her voice actor, Amber Nash described Pam as "a sturdy bisexual".[125]

Sit Down, Shut Up was praised by GLAAD as one of the "LGBT-inclusive broadcast comedies."[126] In the show, 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.[127][128] He is in love with Larry Littlejunk and Miracle Grohe, with whom he hopes to get into a relationship should they become a couple.

Linda Memari, neighbor of the Smith family and a bisexual Iranian-American woman, appeared in episodes of American Dad!.[129]

2010s and 2020s[]

In the Rick and Morty episode "Total Rickall", Sleepy Gary is one of the dozens of aliens that alter the memories of Rick, Morty, Beth and Summer in order to pose as friends and family members.[130] Because of the fake memories, Beth believes herself to be married to Sleepy Gary, and Jerry believes he is having a secret affair with him.[131]

The creator of Final Space, Olan Rogers, told fans in 2020 that he always saw Clarence as bisexual.[132] Clarence, a recurring character, has an ex-wife, several since-deceased wives, two adopted children (Fox and Ash Graven),, is implied to be in love with General Cataloupe, and has unrequited love on Sheryl Goodspeed. One reviewer argued that the death of Clarence was not unique because "over 50 characters have died during the course of the series."[12]

Kaley Cuoco speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California; she voices Harley Quinn in the series Harley Quinn

The mature adult animated series titled Harley Quinn, broadcast on DC Universe and later on HBO Max, featyred two bisexual characters. In the May 15, 2020 episode "There's No Place to Go But Down," Harley Quinn saved her partner-in-crime, Poison Ivy, both kissed each other after they escaped from prison.[133] The critic who reviewed the episode stated that Harley and Ivy's romance is "slow burn" one, adding that this love affair could turn into a "more realistic exploration of how it feels to fall in love with a friend or to have an awkward hookup with a workmate." In the season 2 finale. Poison Ivy had her wedding with Kite Man, a person she didn't love, interrupted. By the end of the episode, Harley Quinn and Ivy realize their feelings for each other, kissing and "finally embracing that they're soul mates" as Renaldo Metadeen of CBR put it.[134] Heather Hogan at Autostraddle added that the bisexual love of Ivy and Harley is canon, calling the second season "one of the most gratifying gay seasons of television" she has ever watched.[135] The series was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.[136]

The voice actor of Melissa Tartleton, on Hulu's M.O.D.O.K., Melissa Fumero, said, on April 27, 2021, that the bisexuality of the character she voices will be explored in the show's second season, including the introduction of her girlfriend.[137][138]

The season 2 premiere of Tuca and Bertie, titled Bird Mechanics, in June 2021, confirmed Tuca to be bisexual as she made out with a female bird mechanic.[139][140] From the episode "Nighttime Friend" on, she tries to get into a serious relationship with a woman named Kara.[141] Kara dumps Tuca in the season 2 finale "The Flood".[142]

HouseBroken features Diablo, a mixed-breed Terrier who had a crush on a human male instructor in the fourth episode "Who's a Good Therapist?"[143] who wanted to attract human women to himself and his "father" which possibly makes him bisexual in the fifth episode "Who's Afraid of Boomsday?"[144] This is confirmed in the eighth episode "Who Are You?" in where Diablo flirts with both Elsa and Max.[145]

Transgender characters[]

See also: List of fictional trans characters § Animation
Loren Bouchard, who created Bob's Burgers, speaking at the 2016 WonderCon in Los Angeles, California.

In the 1990s and 2000s, trans characters appeared in The Simpsons, Family Guy, and The Nutshack. For instance, The Simpsons features a trans female character named Brunella Pommelhorst.[47] And Ida Davis in Family Guy, would be a trans woman, introduced in the 2010 episode "Quagmire's Dad," who later become the "butt of many transmisogynistic and transphobic "jokes.""[146][147] A friendly and flirtatious Vietnamese trans woman, who runs a salon, named Cherry Pie, debuted in a Filipino-American adult animated sitcom, The Nutshack, which aired from 2007 to 2011 on Myx TV, and she was said to dominate "the Vietnamese Cross dressing scene."[148][149]

In later years, trans characters appeared in Bob's Burgers and HouseBroken. Bob's Burgers featured a trans female sex worker named Marshmallow.[150] Chico is a tabby cat in HouseBroken who was revealed to be transgender when he went into labor in "Who's a Good Therapist?"[151] Chico is also shown to be gay as his pregnancy was the result of him mating with a male cat and is implied to have a crush on his owner Kevin.[152] His crush on Kevin was confirmed in the ninth episode "Who Done It?"[153]

Trans characters also appeared in Superjail! and The Oblongs. Superjail! included Alice, a hulking and muscular head prison guard of Superjail and a trans woman[154] who regularly engages in sadomasochistic rituals with the prisoners, and rebuffs The Warden's constant advances as shown in episodes like "Jailbot 2.0." On the other hand, The Oblongs, which showed on The WB and Adult Swim included a trans woman named Anita Bidet as a character.[155]

Pansexual characters[]

See also: List of fictional pansexual characters § Animated series

Various series feature pansexual characters, such as American Dad! and Drawn Together, while The Cleveland Show and Rick and Morty

In a FOX (and later TBS) series, American Dad!, Roger, is a protagonist said to be pansexual,[156] due to the fact he assumed different aliases[157] and a carousel of seemingly-endless lives.[158] Captain Leslie Hero, a "brawny classic cartoon superhero," in Drawn Together, is shown to be sexually aroused, due to his erectile dysfunction, by an array of paraphilias and will have sex with anything and anyone.[77] He and Foxxy Love form a brief BDSM relationship in one episode, "Requiem for a Reality Show," and as his gay alter ego Tim Tommerson, has an affair with Xandir in another episode, "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree."[78][159]

Seth MacFarlane in 2012 at Comic Con. He created Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show.

Pansexual characters were implied in The Cleveland Show and Rick and Morty. In an episode "Terry Unmarried,", of the Family Guy spinoff, The Cleveland Show, Terry Kimple, Cleveland's co-worker, marries his husband Paul, while they both try to bring gay marriage to Virginia, but are not successful.[160] In the same episode, Cleveland asks if Terry is gay; Terry answers no, much to Cleveland's cheer. But Terry replies he's attracted to multiple genders, much to Cleveland's dismay.[115][111] The season five Rick and Morty episode, "Mort inner Rick Andre," was confirmed that the father of Morty, Jerry Smith, is queer because he, and Beth, his wife, have a threesome with the King of the Ocean, otherwise known as Mr. Nimbus.[161] Jerry has feelings for Mr. Nimbus, and due to the fact he has a wife, it means he is either pansexual or bisexual, with both he and Beth in a "sex-positive place" in their relationship, according to Jerry's voice actor, Chris Parnell.[162] The fact he is queer was already hinted in the episode "Total Rickall."

Other LGBTQ characters[]

See also: List of fictional asexual characters § Animation and anime, List of fictional intersex characters § Animation and anime, and List of fictional non-binary characters § Anime and animation

There are also characters who fall outside the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and pansexual identities who appeared in adult animations.

Brother Ken appeared in bro'Town, from 2004-2009, which showed on New Zealand's TV3. Ken was the school principal and is fa'afafine. The latter is a Samoan concept for a third gender,[163] a person who is born biologically male but is raised and sees themself as female. Because the concept does not readily translate, when the series was broadcast on Adult Swim Latin America, a decision was made not to translate Samoan words and just present them as part of the "cultural journey".[164]

South Park, Bob's Burgers, and Final Space also have queer characters. Herbert Garrison in South Park, originally presented as a closeted homosexual, would be afforded storylines which featured Garrison coming out as a gay man, then having a gender reassignment surgery to become female (known as Janet Garrison), becoming a lesbian, and then changing back to a man.[165] It is shown he still has feelings for his ex-boyfriend, Mr. Slave as shown in the episode "Follow That Egg!" Dalton Crespin, who had a boyfriend for a short period of time, who may be gay or bisexual, appeared in episodes of Bob's Burgers.[166] In the Final Space episode "The Closer You Get," the character Tribore tells another character, Shannon, that "he is in love with his other half", because his species flips gender twice a year. Ajay Aravind, writing for Screen Rant, calls this "an amazing non-binary bit of the episode".[167] Series creator Olan Rogers later described Tribore as "narcissi-sexual" because he "loves himself a little too much."[132]

The FOX animation, Duncanville, would feature the protagonist, Duncan, having a crush on his genderfluid classmate, Mia, who works at a pizzeria and sticks her finger in each pizza to "silently protest the company’s anti-gay stance."[168] The creators of Hulu's Solar Opposites, Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan, confirmed, in March 2021, that Korvo and Terry are a romantic couple in a committed relationship.[169] Roiland also described both as genderless aliens which asexually reproduce but are not asexual.[170]

SYFY's pilot series, Magical Girl Friendship Squad: Origins features two women, Alex and Daisy, with the latter sleeping with a woman during the show. The series appeared in a new iteration on September 26, named Magical Girl Friendship Squad and with some new cast members and longer episodes.[171][172] In the latter show, Daisy is unambiguously queer as she has slept with "every barista" at the local coffee shop.[173] In the second and third episodes of the main show, "The Cool S" and "Agony Solstice", a sticker with the transgender pride flag is shown on Daisy's laptop. She is later shown to have an ex-girlfriend in the fourth episode, "Anti-Fungal Spit Skanks," a classic-style anime character, named Yolanda,[174][175] who works at urgent care center in the city. Additionally, in the episode "The Real World," Pansy, who calls herself Daisy's "monogamous live-in girlfriend" is introduced, but she only exists in the dimension created by Nut's sister, Gloriana.

On November 1, 2020, Hallie Cantor, a writer for Magical Girl Friendship Squad, responded to a question on whether Daisy is trans, stated that they hadn't yet "identified her as trans or cis,"[176] implying that she could either be a cisgender lesbian or trans lesbian. On December 4, 2020, Krystal Downs, director for Magical Girl Friendship Squad said that Daisy is lesbian in a tweet.[177] However, Anna Akana, who voiced Daisy, said that Daisy is a cisgender bisexual woman like herself, and dismissed comments by fans saying that Daisy was transgender, saying that implication was incorrect.[178]

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