Why did they make she-ra gay

Creator Noelle Stevenson on how a queer 'She-Ra' came to be on Netflix, and why it matters. On Etheria, princesses are just as likely to be married to each other as they are to have boyfriends. The series has always revolved around Adora and Catra — former friends who landed on opposite sides of a war after the former discovered her magical destiny and learned she was raised by the forces of evil. Adora switched sides and Catra was hurt — which led her to chose her own destructive path.

Netflix animated series "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power" has been LGBTQ-inclusive from the start. The series finale still surprised me. When Den of Geek called She-Ra and the Princesses of Power the next step in queer representation back in , just before it premiered, we had no idea how fully the show would live up to that designation. The answer? So much more than we even hoped.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power brings the subtext of the original stories and makes those implications explicit, creating a gay icon in She-Ra herself, a character that serves as a reminder of both strength and pride that people in the community can rally around. These were the characters, such as Raven from Teen Titans and Shego from Kim Possible , who were outcasts and misfits. The early s saw a steady and careful increase in characters and relationships that were queer-coded and queer-aligned , rather than openly queer. The ambiguity of queer-coded representations was used to test the water by observing the reaction of audiences to queerness.

Cartoons 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. “They weren’t characters who were outwardly gay. The final season of She-Ra And The Princesses of Power celebrates its first birthday today, and the modern adaptation of the original cartoon has had a gargantuan impact on not only the world of animation, but queer media as a whole. Its fandom is insatiable, taking to social media and organising mass campaigns crying out to Dreamworks for a film, or some form of continuation to the adventure that has grown fond in the hearts of so many. The way this show concludes is nothing short of brilliant and each payoff and the final moments are beautifully executed and feel incredibly earned.