10 Kids Cartoons Featuring LGBTQ+ Characters

10. Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil

This was a comparatively small moment, but was important for the time it came out and what it represented.

Not more than a few years ago, the Disney channel was notorious for blocking open queer representation in their shows - one instance in particular related to the popular cartoon, Gravity Falls, to be touched on later in this list.

So when this background couple was seen smooching in one of their more popular titles, Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil, people started talking, with this being the first same-sex kiss appearing on an all-ages cartoon on Disney, one that was explicitly romantic within the context of the episode. There were also some other same-sex couples seen later in more background shots, but this was the most visible.

It was seemingly enough for Disney to pull the episode from their site at the time of release.

More recently on the program, implications, but no outright confirmations, have been made towards characters being bisexual (or pansexual), with characters such as Jackie Lynn Thomas seemingly having a girlfriend onscreen, and Star herself expressing interest in and attraction towards both male and female characters in the show.