[Ninastar]

It's a very complicated subject... With people out there who have religious beliefs against gay people being married, having sex, actually living, etc etc, is it a bad idea to have gay characters on kids shows?

I'm a little on the fence. I was talking to my friends about this the other day when we had a movie night with pizza. One of my friends said 'disney need a gay princess or prince. It's 2015, they need to get with the times.' I was like, yeah I agree. I think that would be a great idea. but then my other friend said 'I don't know, wouldn't that confuse kids?' and I was like, yeah, it might, but it would also teach them that it's okay not to be straight...

I know that in showbiz, being out of the closet could totally ruin your career, but is it different with kids shows? Obviously the people in it arent real, but you'd face the problem of licenses not actually allowing it on TV and stuff. I don't see disney or any of these huge companys having gay characters soon, but what about smaller shows?

I'm a big geek and I watch all kinds of crap for kids/teens, whatever. I've never seen a gay character once, until last year. And even on that show, it wasn't clear until literally the last 5 seconds. It's the show from my avatar so if you was going to watch, sorry for the spoilers!!! But yeah, what I really noticed was that 'Wow, this hasnt ever been done before' and it's crazy to think that. There's been gay characters in soaps and tv shows for like 20 years now. Isn't it about time that we had the same for some kids shows?

And I don't think it should be like OTT 'WOOHOO IM SUPER GAY KIDS, THIS IS WHAT GAY IS!!!' lol. It should be subtle. Talked about only once or twice and the character should live life like everyone else does.

What are your opinions? Is it about time that kids shows had some gay characters?