In June, the Hasbro-created “My Little Pony” series on Disney showed its first lesbian couple, Aunt Holiday and Auntie Lofty, who care for a young pony named Scootaloo. “You feel starved, and you feel lonely, and that depression and that loneliness, it ain’t healthy,” he said.īased on a 2014 book by Daniel Errico, the show comes soon after the long-running “Arthur” series on PBS featured a same-sex wedding for the first time, facing a ban in Alabama in the process. Seeing same-sex parents, gay marriage and general expressions of romantic non-binary affection is something the 46-year-old Knight wishes he had been exposed to growing up in Minneapolis. That’s it,” Knight told The Associated Press in a recent joint interview with Cruz, referring to their cartoon daughter, Nia, a brave knight-in-training.
“It’s these parents that love her and care about her.
Knight, speak loudly about the state of LGBTQ representation in TV fare for kids, a segment of media that has been broadening story lines over the last several years to include a range of non-binary characters. His words and those of his fellow Hulu father, T.R. We’re talking about the love of a family.” NEW YORK (AP) - Wilson Cruz, a co-star in the new Hulu animated children’s series “The Bravest Knight,” describes the show’s dad couple this way: “We’re not explaining homosexuality, or same-gender sexuality.
