Gay animated cartoons

Why she was a hero: Spinelli was a tough tomboy who refused to take shit from anybody. She didn't want to be associated with the group of mean girls known as The Ashleys, so she shed her first name altogether, showing kids the power of reinvention, self identity, and paving your own path in life. Spinelli was sort of a childhood stepping stone to idolizing Jane from Daria. Why she was a tragic hero: No other character in the '90s truly understood the ache of secret, unrequited love the way poor Helga Pataki did. Every LGBT kid struggles with crushin' on someone who won't like them back at some point, and the urge to go full Helga-style stalker is something most of us are still trying to avoid.

But in the same way art imitates life, potentially closeted cartoon characters also face the scrutiny of being labeled "other" or "different" by the worlds they inhabit. The animated world proves to be just as difficult to navigate as the physical one, and secretly gay cartoon characters must traverse their own unsteady paths as well. The possibly gay cartoon characters below may not even really be hiding it; they might have just never confirmed it either. Some of the younger characters here likely might not even realize it yet. Not all are gay role models , but many do offer viewers the chance to see someone they identify with. Hey Arnold!

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Do you remember, as a kid, watching your favorite cartoon and realizing that you were focusing a little too much on one of the characters? Lots of the characters were great, but there was one in particular who was so smart, so cool, so good at vanquishing bad guys. And it was on a fictional and perhaps non-human cartoon character.