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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved the show as a kid and never once wondered or thought  about the sexual identity of the characters.  I don’t understand the need to define them now in the show- can’t they just solve mysteries and eat Scooby snacks? [/quote]

For representation. Representation matters more than you'll ever know if you're part of a marginalized community.

I'm a lesbian. I grew up without any gay TV characters for most of my childhood. It just reinforced the idea that gay = bad and that homosexuality should be hidden. Ellen came out in 1994 when I was 12. I knew at 12 that I was 100% different than my peers because my crushes weren't on boys in my class, but on my best female friends. I felt so ashamed and broken because I was different and I didn't understand why. I thought gay only applied to men. It never occurred to me that a woman could also be gay or that I was gay. I remember my parents discussing Ellen's coming out at the dinner table and explaining it to me and siblings and as we asked questions, and it was like a literal lightbulb went off for me... holy sh!t! I liked girls the way Ellen liked girls and that meant I was a lesbian. I wanted to cry when I realized I wasn't broken as a person, I was just different and simply didn't know the proper name because I'd never been taught.

But then all the backlash happened (and honestly, not everything my parents had to say about Ellen was great, either), and again, I knew that I had to keep that newfound information about myself secret. Because all around me I saw people hating on her for being who she was as a person.

Even when there was a lesbian couple on a TV show, it was never really the main character or the main storyline. The relationships were often played out with a negative connotation, too... gay character spontaneously planting a kiss on a straight female co-worker, gay character spontaneously planting a kiss on a straight female friend, a seemingly straight young character escaping an abusive relationship into the arms of a much older lesbian character, married wife & mom getting kissed by gay friend, etc.

Straight people had tons of happy couples on TV and gays had 10-minute blurbs of messy relationships, secretive relationships, and lots of spontaneous kisses on (non-consenting) parties.

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So in your mind, what % of the time should a cartoon show be lgbtqia? What % of the characters?  What % of the school assemblies? % books read to classroom? % of the plot line or characters or main characters? [/quote]

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