Disney shows gay kiss in a children’s cartoon for first time
The Walt Disney Company pushed the LGBT envelope a little further this week by airing its first on-screen gay kiss on an animated children’s program. This comes the same week that the children's entertainment giant announced that there will be an "exclusively gay moment" featured in the new live action version of Beauty and the Beast. Several same-sex couples were shown kissing in the latest episode of Star vs. the Forces of Evil , a cartoon geared toward children and adolescents that airs on Disney XD, the company’s digital cable and satellite television channel. The scene took place at a boy band concert, where several concertgoers, including gay and lesbian couples, kissed while the band sings the song “Best Friends.” Some viewers found the same-sex representations too subtle, according to the Daily Mail , but others tweeted praise for Disney’s first-ever gay kissing scene in the children’s cartoon. The on-screen same-sex kisses took place as news also s