Warning to parents: pro-gay cartoons are on the rise
When the animated series The Legend of Korra ended its three-season run with the two heroines holding hands and dissolving into a mist – thus making explicit a lesbian love interest that hitherto had only been hinted at – children’s TV was likely changed forever. Or so claimed Vanity Fair arts writer Joanna Robinson , who enthusiastically lauded the December 2014 finale of the Nickelodeon show as perhaps the “most subversive television event of the year.” But for Christian media watchers like Jeff Johnston, that lesbian fairytale ending (the two characters were actually bisexual, having each dated a boy in previous episodes) was just the inevitable next step in a clearly discernible trend. “There are definitely more gay and transgender characters and stories in children’s television,” Johnston, issues analyst for Focus on the Family , told LifeSiteNews in an email. Other examples include the 2012-2013 season of “gender-bending” Australian cartoon series SheZow featur