Pride Month and cartoons

June marks LGBTQ Pride Month. As such, LGBTQ related TV shows, movies, and other media get highlighted, and that includes this blog. For Pride Month, below is a roundup of posts that focus on LGBTQ related content in cartoons.

Cartoon reviews

Here’s reviews I’ve written for animated cartoons that feature LGBTQ characters, either as the main stars or as secondary characters:

Comic reviews

And here’s reviews I’ve written of comics starring LGBTQ characters:

“Lumberjanes”
“Jem and the Holograms” (a spin-off/reboot of the 80s animated series)
“Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast”
“Questionable Content”
“Goldie Vance”
“The Backstagers”
“AJ & Magnus”
“Kevin Keller: Drive Me Crazy”
“Kevin Keller: Welcome to Riverdale”

GLAAD Media Awards cartoon-related winners

A list of my posts about GLAAD Media Award winners related to both comics and animation. Note no awards were given in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Holidays

LGBTQ pride flag — “Rainbow Flag” by nathanmac87 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Flickr / cropped from original)

I’ve written a few holiday-related posts mentioning LGBTQ characters:

Valentine’s Day in cartoons
10 cartoons featuring characters with two Moms (Mother’s Day)
6 Indigenous characters in cartoons (Indigenous Peoples’ Day)
Winter solstice in cartoons
Animated holiday specials featuring LGBTQ characters (Christmas/Hanukkah/Las Posadas)

LGBTQ people of color

Cartoonists of Color Database, Queer Cartoonists Database highlight minority creators (August 2017)
10 LGBTQ people of color cartoon characters (June 2018)

While some media (both LGBTQ oriented and mainstream) equate being gay with being white, that’s obviously not true.

A cartoonist named MariNaomi runs three online cartoonist databases: the aforementioned ones for people of color and LGBTQ people, plus a third one for disabled cartoonists. All of them offer search filtering functions for more granular searches.