FCC targets LGBTQ+ television content. GLAAD sounds alarm

No, they let her make the choice. > Sugar spent a long time pushing for the wedding episode and other instances of queer representation on the show. She was in her late 20s when Cartoon Network gave her the green light — but not before explaining the stakes to her. > “They brought me in for a meeting, and they essentially said, ‘We know that you’re doing this, and we know that if we were to tell you to stop, that would be based in bigotry.’” Sugar was then cautioned that the show could be censored internationally if she continued down the path she was on. “Ultimately they told me in this meeting that it would be my decision if I were going to tell the truth about what I was doing, which in hindsight was a really bold move for Cartoon Network to make, to actually give the decision to speak about this to the queer content creator generating this material.” > “Steven Universe” ended up being pulled in multiple territories, but the show survived. Sorcher credits it with helping evolve Cartoon Network, where 52% of studio production staff is now female. “That’s the wake of ‘Steven Universe,’” says Sorcher, who notes also that the company’s artist population is now far younger than ever. [Source](https://variety.com/2020/tv/features/rebecca-sugar-cartoon-network-steven-universe-1203537231/) > Every time we would cover this ground, it would be a conversation. I think part of the challenge is that this show was an international show. We would be getting notes not just from the US but also from Europe, from around the world about what we could and couldn't show, and they would be different notes from different countries. And I felt really determined to make this as acceptable as possible because I didn't want this show to be censored in countries where I felt children would really need to see this—and it has been now [censored] in several countries. But I feel that, hopefully, they'll still be able to find it. > There was a point at which it was brought to my attention that the studio… I was brought up to a meeting where they [the studio] said, "We know that you're doing this, and we support that you're doing this… We don't want to be giving notes on this, but we have to give notes on this" and it was all very difficult to navigate. [Source](https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/13/steven-universe-rebecca-sugar-lgbtq-cartoons/) > **Why do you think that you've been able to make so much progress in furthering the visibility, while other creators are hitting similar roadblocks?** > I think that the stars have really aligned. I think that it's my team, it's the fact that we were all so dedicated to telling honest stories and to just fighting and fighting to get this material through and make it so entertaining that you could never deny how sweet and thoughtful and entertaining it is that there's just no way to say no. But then I think also at various levels we have had allies fighting for this to be made. > I was just learning about how The Answer book, which was also very difficult to make and I only just now found out that a big part of why it was made was that one of the big champions of the book was an ally for her sister. We've had allies at all these different stages, people for whom this is very personal and they understand the personal toll that can be taken. I think there are people at Turner [the company that owns Cartoon Network] who are LGBT who would see these notes come through and just realize how shocking they are and I think that it made all the difference. You have to try and do it so that when these feelings become visible. You know where they are so you can break them down. > I'm just extremely lucky to think I have had support. Instead of being told don't talk about this, I was given the option of being upfront about this even if it might become a problem. Cartoon Network allows for a lot of creative freedom, especially from these creative-driven shows so the responsibility really fell on us to tell the story that we wanted to tell. And I'm grateful to have been here, to have the opportunity to fight for this. [Source](https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/13/steven-universe-rebecca-sugar-lgbtq-cartoons/)

Those are the numbers from GLAAD. Presumably, they would be interested in reporting on their own advocacy category accurately, but maybe not.

Wait, if you're doubting the total released number, why do you trust the number of LGBT characters number?  Did you source an updated number or just carry over his lower number?

They included a methodology section on the website thatwas linked: https://glaad.org/sri/2025/methodology/ I was curious as well, but they lay it all out here that they picked the top 10 movie distributors of movies in the U.S. I also have no idea how the number changes as you increase the total to 569 movies, but why would you keep the same number from the 250 movies and use that for your percentage? That's terrible stats work. I think they just didn’t want to research h more than 250 movies so chose the top 250 as a reasonable stand in, which is fine to do. As for what counted, they say the movies were researched and featured was based on how much the character was in story elements. It's vague, but the OP didn’t do the study, GLAAD did.

Wow, that shut them up pretty quickly.

Russia isn’t communist these days

> They hate ~~Episcopalians too. And the Catholics.~~

Do you think threatening me is gonna save your soul?

no not at all, that would be ridiculous, the letters people can live in public society. but the difference is, with gay people, generally, they keep to themselves dont bother anyone, and do their own thing, the letters mafia demand everything be catered to them and consequences when something is not, all of that to serve a lie, it would be the same if we went back to the salem witch trials, but this time the witchs do are the ones in charge.

why wouldnt i like it?

well, have to tried it recently?

Nope it isn’t 

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Oh no angry progressive peeps incoming.

When you push them in kids show then I’m going to draw the line here.