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Contents:

• 20 INIC GAY & LGBT ANIME CHARACTERS: THE ULTIMATE LIST
• GAY CHARACTERS
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• GAY CHARACTERS

20 INIC GAY & LGBT ANIME CHARACTERS: THE ULTIMATE LIST

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Like Wtern media, they’ve gradually troduced more healthy pictns of gay characters – even if they’re not always the most notor.

GAY CHARACTERS

But he’s fantastic for subvertg stereotyp of agreeable and meek gay characters anime. Some gay characters are jt a pleasure to watch, like Yuzu om Cs.

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JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

It’s hard to say whether we n classify a transcenntally different creature such as an angel as “gay”. But every send of screen-time Kawo gets wh Shji is rich homosexual subtext. The two uld bee gay symbols for younger generatns, both Japan and abroad.

I was more than a ltle surprised lookg back at jt how many gay them were the origal Card Captor Sakura animatn.

It was the first time I saw such a normalized portrayal of a gay relatnship, which speaks volum about how srce reprentatn ed to be for the LGBTQ+ muny.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Hontly, anythg volvg Yo was gay and unashamed. You wouldn’t expect to fd a particularly good gay character on a show where 50% of the plot hg on the power of hypermasculy – but TTGL is all about exceedg your expectatns.

In addn to Utena, most other characters the story are eher gay or bisexual.

When you thk of gay anime characters, you probably thk of yaoi and yuri, but great LGBT anime characters n be found other genr. The state of LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual) reprentatn anime differs om that Amerin rtoons due to different cultural attus regardg sexualy and genr inty. In the Wt, homosexualy has historilly been nsired sful, and for much of the 20th century, mastream film and TV avoid directly addrsg the existence of non-heterosexual inti.

GAY CHARACTERS

By the 1990s, there was more gay reprentatn of varyg qualy Amerin movi and TV aimed at adult dienc, cludg gay characters adult-oriented rtoons such as Smhers The Simpsons and Big Gay Al South Park, but the issue was still nsired too ntroversial for media aimed at children, which rtricted most Amerin rtoons. Notable characters the current movement clu the pairg of Korra and Asami The Legend of Korra, the pansexual genrfluid robot BMO Adventure Time, and the "gay space rocks" who make up much of the st of Steven Universe.

Japan, ntrast, hasn't historilly nsired homosexualy sful. It has, however, been very ncerned wh social nformy, which is the form homophobia tends to take there.

Wternizatn led to the importatn of both the homophobia of late 19th to early 20th century psychology and the gay pri movement of the late 20th to 21st century. LGBT rights are not clud as part of Japan's civil rights law and same-sex marriage is illegal, though as of 2015 Shibuya and Setagaya have begun to regnize certa rights for same-sex upl.