Wikipedia:Source assessment/Nickelodeon and LGBT representation
Below is a source assessment table for the topic of Nickelodeon and LGBT representation.
| Source | Independent? | Reliable? | Significant coverage? | Count source toward GNG? | |
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| "GLAAD 2002". |  Advocacy organization
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 "[C]onsidered a reliable source for LGBT issues." – Flyer22 Reborn
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"[GLAAD] primarily only briefly discuss[es] characters, and they rarely focus on animation" – Historyday01 (retrieved February 2024)
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✘ No | |
| Lowry, Brian (11 June 2002). "NICKELODEON UNDER FIRE FOR A SPECIAL ON GAY PARENTS". Sun Sentinel. | Sun Sentinel
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1 2 3 4
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| "NICKELODEON GETS LOTS OF ATTENTION WITH GAY SPECIAL". The Hollywood Reporter. 25 June 2002. | The Hollywood Reporter
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WP:THR
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| "Foundational Values". Focus on the Family. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020. | Focus on the Family
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~ Primary source for the organization's own statements | Nothing to do with Nickelodeon
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✘ No | |
| "A Dozen Major Groups Help Drive the Religious Right's Anti-Gay Crusade". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. April 28, 2005. | SPLC
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WP:SPLC
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? Unknown | ||
| "Conservative Christian Groups Attack Children's Video". January 21, 2005. | SPLC
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WP:SPLC
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Harmetz, Aljean (August 17, 1988). "'Last Temptation' to Play in Texas". The New York Times. | The New York Times
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WP:NYT
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✘ No | |
| "Still Cranky After All These Years". Media Transparency. April 19, 2007. | Media Matters
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? WP:MEDIAMATTERS |
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✘ No | |
| "Camp cartoon star 'is not gay'". BBC News. October 9, 2002. | BBC News
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WP:RSPBBC
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| "SpongeBob is asexual, says creator". The Age. January 29, 2005. | The Age
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Considered generally reliable according to WP:RSP
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Ellis, Adam (December 2, 2013). "19 Kids Show Characters Who Were Totally Gay Heroes". BuzzFeed. | BuzzFeed
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? WP:BUZZFEED | ? Unknown | ||
| Emmett, Neil (November 20, 2014). "A History of the 'Gay Agenda' in Animation". Cartoon Brew. | Cartoon Brew
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"[A] perfectly reliable source for animation news." – Hemiauchenia
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"I don't see that any of them obviously constitute significant coverage." – Caeciliusinhorto-public
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✘ No | |
| "History of the Anti-Gay Movement Since 1977". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. April 28, 2005. | SPLC
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WP:SPLC
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✘ No | |
| Moser, Bob (April 28, 2005). "Anti-Gay Movement Reacts to Decision Overturning Arrest of Two Texas Men for Having Sex". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. | SPLC
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WP:SPLC
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✘ No | |
| Waller, Vincent [@VincentWaller72] (May 21, 2016). "Probably not. It's definitely on the Steve short list, of NOs" (Tweet). | Vincent Waller
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Social media posts
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✘ No | ||
| Konietzko, Bryan (December 22, 2014). "Korrasami is canon". Tumblr. Yahoo!. | Bryan Konietzko
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Social media post
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Atkinson, Sophia (November 5, 2015). "The Complete History of Queer Characters in Cartoon Shows". Highsnobiety. TITEL MEDIA GMBH. | Highsnobiety
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"Not a reliable secondary source but an online shop" – Drmies (retrieved February 2024) |
✘ No | ||
| Mak, Philip (March 26, 2018). "Five family-friendly LGBTQ animated series for Pride Month". Toon Boom. Toon Boom Animation Inc. | Toon Boom
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Blog
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✘ No | ||
| Robinson, Joanna (19 December 2014). "How a Nickelodeon Cartoon Became One of the Most Powerful, Subversive Shows of 2014". Vanity Fair. | Vanity Fair
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WP:VANITYFAIR
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| IGN Staff (24 December 2014). "THE LEGEND OF KORRA: IGN EDITORS REACT TO THE ENDING AND KORRASAMI". IGN. | IGN
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WP:IGN
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Kang, Aiyi (March 4, 2015). "The effect of LGBT characters in our generation". The Sundial. California State University Northridge. | California State University Northridge
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"California State University, Northridge is a reliable source." – Dalal 1999 (retrieved February 2024) "it's citing academics who would be self-published experts (we just have to believe it's reliable to quote them accurately)" – Bilorv (retrieved February 2024) |
Same rationale as for Cartoon Brew
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✘ No | |
| Rude, Mey Valdivia (March 13, 2015). ""Steven Universe" and the Importance of All-Ages Queer Representation". Autostraddle. The Excitant Group LLC. | LGBT-related
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✘ No | |||
| B, Laura (August 15, 2017). "Korra and Asami Are Getting Bi: Turf Wars Part 1 Review". The Geekiary. Saga Event Event Planning LLC. | The Geekiary
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Per statements by Max1057 (retrieved February 2024) |
~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Holub, Christian (July 16, 2019). "How The Rise of Kyoshi YA novel finds new things to love about Avatar: The Last Airbender". EW. | Entertainment Weekly
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Considered "generally reliable for entertainment-related articles" according to WP:RSP
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Rose Falcone, Dana (July 1, 2015). "RuPaul will voice a snail on Nickelodeon's 'Bubble Guppies'". Entertainment Weekly. | Entertainment Weekly
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See above
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Beaks, Harvey (July 16, 2015). "Get ready. Just 2 more days until brand new episodes of Harvey Beaks! Here's a sneak peek at "Harvey's Favorite Book" featuring RuPaul as author Jackie Slitherstein". Tumblr. | Official Tumblr handle for Harvey Beaks
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Social media post
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Flaherty, Keely (July 26, 2016). "At Long Last, We Know Arnold's Full Name On "Hey Arnold"". BuzzFeed. | BuzzFeed
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? WP:BUZZFEED | ~ Specific case rather than general overview | ? Unknown | |
| Romano, Nick (August 22, 2018). "From Steven Universe to Voltron: The fight to bring LGBTQ characters to kids' shows". Entertainment Weekly. Meredith Corporation. | Entertainment Weekly
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Same rationale as for Cartoon Brew
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✘ No | |
| Manzella, Sam (February 27, 2018). "9 Cartoons That Were Censored For Being Too Gay". Logo TV. Viacom International Inc. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020. | Paramount Global
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✘ No | |||
| Roshanian, Arya (July 18, 2016). "Nickelodeon's 'Loud House' to Feature Married Gay Couple". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. | Variety Magazine
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WP:VARIETY
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| "Nickelodeon 'makes history' with its first cartoon gay married couple". PinkNews. July 18, 2016. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved July 18, 2016. | LGBT-related
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WP:PINKNEWS
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| GLAAD 2018, p. 31. | Advocacy organization
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✘ No | |
| Anne, Valerie (June 16, 2017). "I Have a Lesbian Crush on This "Loud House" Storyline About Girls Having Crushes on Girls". Autostraddle. | LGBT-related
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Title suggests this is personal commentary
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Jewel Queen (March 6, 2019). "We Need to Raise the Bar for LGBTQ+ Representation in Animated Shows". The Mary Sue. | The Mary Sue
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Considered generally reliable according to WP:RSP "it typically needs to be attributed in prose" – Bilorv (retrieved February 2024) |
Same rationale as for Cartoon Brew
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✘ No | |
| GLAAD 2019, p. 33. | Advocacy organization
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✘ No | |
| Jurado, Peter (June 24, 2017). "The Loud House VS Heteronormativity". ComicsVerse. | ComicsVerse
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~ "probably reliable" – ActivelyDisinterested (retrieved February 2024) |
"[D]oesn't verify any of the details in the content. No mention of Sam appearing to reciprocate Luna's feeling, no mention of date not being called a date." – ActivelyDisinterested (retrieved February 2024)
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✘ No | |
| Taylor, Maddie [@MaddieTaylor418] (August 8, 2019). "Figured I'd let you all know. @Nickelodeon is doing good stuff in trans and LGBT representation. Very proud of this. #TransIsBeautiful #transpride #Nickelodeon #loudhouse #animation" (Tweet). | Maddie Taylor
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Social media post
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Short statement
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✘ No | |
| "45 Times Cartoons Absolutely Killed It When It Comes To LGBTQ Representation". BuzzFeed. June 24, 2020. | BuzzFeed
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? WP:BUZZFEED | ? Unknown | ||
| Crowley, Sammie [@SammieCrowley] (February 15, 2020). [https://web.archive.org/web/20200215212704/https://twitter.com/SammieCrowley/status/1228768178131484672 "Hope my Loud House fans enjoyed today's Valentine's Day episodes | I am obsessed with how cute Lainey and Alice are! It was important to Karla and the whole writing team that in an episode about coupling up we had LGBTQ representation. It was definitely worth fighting for ❤ 🌈"] (Tweet). | Sammie Crowley is a writer for The Loud House
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Social media post
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Short statement
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✘ No |
| White, Abbey (June 15, 2021). "TV animators were forced to scrap LGBTQ-inclusive storylines due to a culture of fear. Experts say fans are changing that". Insider. | Insider Inc.
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~ WP:BI | ~ "[T]his one specifically talks about Mysticons and LGBTQ+ rep in that series, specifically between the characters Kitty Boon and Zarya Moonwolf in Mysticons." – Historyday01 (retrieved February 2024) | ~ Partial | |
| Where We Are on TV: 2020–2021 (PDF) (Report). GLAAD. January 2021. p. 40. | Advocacy organization
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✘ No | |
| Hysen, Dylan (October 23, 2017). "Kiss Between Two Female Characters in "Mysticons" Might be Cut". Overly Animated. | Overly Animated
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"[D]oesn't seem to conform with WP:RS." – Alex 21 |
~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| ""MoonBoon" confirmed by Mysticons creator Sean Jara in August 2018". Twitter. May 8, 2020. |
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Social media
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Short statement
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✘ No | |
| Jara, Sean [@NovaTerron] (August 24, 2018). "Sadly no. We would have loved to continue the adventure, but Nick didn't pick us up for more than 40, so our epic journey will come to an end very soon. We're proud of our show, though, and I look forward to the day when a young kid who watched this grows up and reboots it" (Tweet). | Sean Jara
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Social media post
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Short statement
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✘ No | |
| Jara, Sean [@NovaTerron] (September 12, 2018). "Yes" (Tweet). | Sean Jara
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Social media post
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Short statement
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✘ No | |
| Mourad, Beatriz (September 26, 2018). "Sean Jara & Matt Ferguson Interview – Mysticons". Overly Animated. | ~ Primary source |
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Romano, Nick (August 7, 2019). "Rocko's Modern Life Netflix movie will feature prominent trans story arc". Entertainment Weekly. Meredith Corporation. | Entertainment Weekly
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Darwish, Meaghan (October 30, 2019). "First Look at Jane Lynch & Tim Gunn's 'Middle School Moguls' Characters (PHOTOS)". TV Guide#TV Insider. NTVB Media. | TV Guide
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Considered "generally reliable for television-related topics" according to WP:RSP
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Schuster, Kat (September 13, 2019). "Local sisters' new Nickelodeon show aims to shape young entrepreneurs". Press Telegram. | Press-Telegram
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~ "probably reliable" – ActivelyDisinterested (retrieved February 2024) |
"It only verifies that Yuna has two moms." – ActivelyDisinterested (retrieved February 2024)
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✘ No | |
| Street, Mikelle (June 13, 2020). "This Tweet Is Why People Think SpongeBob Came Out as Gay". Out. | LGBT-related
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | ||
| It's Pony! | Noisy Neighbors 📢 New Episode "Loud Horse". Nickelodeon. October 7, 2020. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
| It's Pony Shorts 🐴 | Hold My Spot & Screen Time. Nickelodeon. July 16, 2021. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
| "'Blue's Clues' Debuts New Alphabet Song Where 'P' Stands For 'Pride'". ScaryMommy. February 11, 2021. | Scary Mommy
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"NOT a reliable source." – Strikerforce (retrieved February 2024) |
~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| "ABC Song 🎵 w/ Blue!--Alphabet Song for Kids". Blue's Clues & You! YouTube. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
| "'Blue's Clues' Pride Sing-Along Stars The Cutest Cartoon Drag Queen". Yahoo!. Scary Mommy. | Scary Mommy
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Tenreyro, Tatiana (May 26, 2021). "Betty is going to be gay in the Rugrats Paramount Plus show". The A.V. Club. | The A.V. Club
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"[C]onsidered generally reliable for film, music and TV reviews." – WP:RSP
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Green, Steven (May 28, 2021). "Rugrats Gets First LGBT Character in Reboot". Backlot Magazine. | CGMagazine
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"[A]lready determined to be unreliable here on Wikipedia." – GamerPro64
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Milligan, Mercedes (March 16, 2023). "Trailer: 'Rugrats' S2 Delivers a New Bundle of Joy on April 14". Animation Magazine. | Animation Magazine
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"[T]otally acceptable." – Historyday01 (retrieved February 2024) |
~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| "GLAAD announces nominees for the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards". GLAAD. January 19, 2022. | Advocacy organization
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Blog
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✘ No | |
| Kellher, Patrick (September 8, 2021). "Power Rangers Dino Fury makes history with series' first LGBT+ ranger: 'About time!'". PinkNews. | LGBT-related
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WP:PINKNEWS
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| "Power Rangers Dino Fury Green Ranger confirmed as LGBTQ+". Gayming. September 8, 2021. Archived from the original on September 10, 2021. | LGBT-related
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | ||
| Chapman, Wilson; Ferme, Antonio (May 6, 2022). "GLAAD Media Awards: Judith Light, Wilson Cruz Among Winners". Variety. Retrieved May 7, 2022. | Variety
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WP:VARIETY
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Same rationale as for Cartoon Brew
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✘ No | |
| Complex, Valerie (January 18, 2023). "GLAAD Announces Nominees For The 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards". Deadline Hollywood. | Deadline Hollywood
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WP:RSPDEADLINE
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Same rationale as for Cartoon Brew
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✘ No | |
| The Casagrandes | Dodgeball Battle | Nickelodeon UK. Nickelodeon UK. February 24, 2022. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
| Can Dee Dee Make It As An Actor? 🎭 | Big Nate | Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe. Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe. April 8, 2022. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
| Crowley, Liam (December 23, 2022). "New Big Nate Clips Tease Fresh Relationships in Upcoming Episodes (Exclusive)". Comic Book Resources. | Comic Book Resources
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? post-2016 | ~ Specific case rather than general overview | ? Unknown | |
| Nick Jr. [@nickjr] (May 8, 2022). "Celebrating moms everywhere today 💜 Happy Mother's Day!" (Tweet). | Official Twitter handle for Nick Jr.
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Social media post
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Short statement
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✘ No | |
| Gibson, Marcus (July 9, 2022). "Review: The Loud House "Puns and Buns/Food Courting"". Bubbleblabber. | Bubbleblabber
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? "[I]t's best to use other critics" – A. C. Santacruz |
~ Specific case rather than general overview | ? Unknown | |
| Milligan, Mercedes (July 13, 2022). "Nickelodeon & Mattel Unveil Voices for New 'Monster High' Animated Series". Animation Magazine. | Animation Magazine
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Frankie and Cleo Relationship Sparks?? ⚡ | Monster High. Monster High. April 29, 2023. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
| Frankie & Cleo: Relationship Boos or Bust? | Monster High. Monster High. July 8, 2023. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
| Milligan, Mercedes (June 14, 2021). "Meet the Starship Crew in Paramount+ Original 'Star Trek: Prodigy'". Animation Magazine. | Animation Magazine
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~ Specific cases rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Mercante, Alyssa (November 14, 2022). "New Transformers Series Introduces Its First Nonbinary Robot [Update]". Kotaku. | Kotaku
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? Deemed "situational" according to WP:VG/RS | ~ Specific case rather than general overview | ? Unknown | |
| Miller, Caroline (March 3, 2023). "Nickelodeon Gears Up to Introduce Bossy Bear to New Audiences". MovieWeb. | MovieWeb
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"[T]oo weak to be used in isolation" – Betty Logan |
~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | |
| Walker, Jackson (September 21, 2023). "Paw Patrol spin-off episode by 'Queer Mister Rogers' features first non-binary character". WPDE-TV. | WPDE-TV
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"[...] RS like The Island Packet, WPDE-TV, Politico, Sports Illustrated, etc." – Chetsford |
~ Specific case rather than general overview | ~ Partial | |
| Factora, James (September 21, 2023). "Paw Patrol's Nonbinary-Coded Character Is, Um, Very Subtly Coded". Them. | LGBT-related
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~ Specific case rather than general overview | ✘ No | ||
| FULL EPISODE: Rock Paper Scissors! – Paper Defeats an Alien Invasion – Nicktoons. – via YouTube. | YouTube video on official channel
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~ Primary source | — | ✘ No | |
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