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100

This show featured the most representation of all the shows in the database, largely through its cast of nonbinary and gender-nonconforming characters.

What is Steven Universe?

100

This is the type of rating that shows needed to qualify for the database.

What is TV-PG and below?

100

This type of identification in shows is categorized as explicit.

What is overt illustration of LGBTQ identities (including dialogue that identified gender or orientation, on-screen kisses, marriages, or same-gender parenting)?

100

This network was known for airing OK-K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, among the other top 10 shows with the most LGBTQ+ characters.

What is Cartoon Network?

100
This year had the highest number of characters debuted or confirmed as LGBTQ+.

What is 2019?

200

This decade saw the largest growth in LGBTQ+ character representation.

What is the 2010s?

200

This type of character was NOT included.

What is characters who appeared solely in the background or in a static shot?
200

Implicit representation often relies on this type of evidence.

What is subtext (ex: idioms or romantic behaviors)?

200

This animated kids show featured the only known transgender lead.

What is DeamWorksTV's "Too Loud"?

200

This was the first series to HAVE a confirmed LGBTQ+ character.

What is Dexter's Laboratory?

300

This type of gender was among the least represented in animated kids' series.

What is transgender?

300

DOUBLE POINTS OPPORTUNITY: The two steps that evaluated characters to determine whether they met the threshold for inclusion.

What is identifying whether a character is implicitly or explicitly LGBTQ+?

What is assessing a show's narrative techniques?

300

This type of representation appeared at a faster rate, especially in the past decade.

What is explicit representation?

300

DOUBLE POINTS OPPORTUNITY: This show in the database was created by a nonbinary bisexual show-runner. (Name the show and the creator!)

What is Steven Universe?


Who is Rebecca Sugar?

300

This was the first year to feature more than seven publicly confirmed LGBTQ+ characters.

What is 2014?

400

The most used method for confirming LGBTQ characters in kids' series.

What is social media?

400
Characters had to debut or be confirmed by this date.

What is December 31st, 2020?

400

Voice casting, social media posts, companion material such as comics, and interviews years after a show ended fall under this category of representation.

What is implicit representation?

400

This Disney Channel show featured in the database has a popular LGBTQ+ enemies-to-lovers relationship.

What is The Owl House?
400
Of the first 10 animated kids' series to confirm LGBTQ+ characters, this decade was predominantly cable television.

What is the 2010s?

500

This studio had the most series featuring LGBTQ+ characters with a total of nine.

What is DreamWorks Animation?
500
This is what led to character entries being labeled unknown or undetermined in the database.
What is unspecified clarification by a show's creative team (during production)?
500

This implicitly gay character took the longest to confirm, revealed 31 years after the show's debut.

Who is Skeleton from SuperTed (1983)?

500
This character was ruled out because of conflicting creative team statements and no public comment from Nickelodeon.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
500

This was the first series confirmed to FEATURE an LGBTQ+ character in the database.

What is SuperTed (1983)?