I felt seen in some way.”īut we live in a world where children are treated as pristine angels who don’t need to know about topics like sexuality right away, and Stevenson calls that ridiculous: “There’s nothing inappropriate about being gay and living your life.
“It was characters where I projected onto them or latched onto them in a way I didn’t understand yet.” She says Velma from “Scooby Doo” was her first crush on a character but, as a child, she didn’t understand what that meant or how to approach it: “I just felt a kinship with her.
“They weren’t characters who were outwardly gay or lesbian,” Stevenson said. As a member of the LGBTQ community herself, Stevenson never wanted to present the relationship as something to be afraid of or “saved” from.Ĭartoons like this didn’t exist when she was growing up, she explains, leaving her to latch onto characters that were coded as gay or lesbian. “It’s a responsibility in my eyes create media for children, for all ages, that shows these issues as normal,” she said. Its final season, airing earlier this year, took the giant risk of admitting that - for all the social media “shipping” - Adora and her best friend/moral enemy Catra (voiced by AJ Michalka) were actually in love with each other. Outside of the typical epic storyline of a massive army and the resistance fighters hellbent on stopping them, “She-Ra” has taken the time to examine relationships, both romantic and platonic. The story of Princess Adora (voiced by Aimee Carrero), her fellow Princesses of Power, and their determination to defeat the evil Lord Hordak has gone on a journey that no one could have expected. It was a gamble that paid off as “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power,” which debuted on Netflix in 2018, will no doubt be taken into the hearts of a new generation of fans, both new and original (like myself).
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