At last, I’ve caught up on season 7 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I thoroughly enjoyed the dips into Equestria’s ancient past and the character development of non-Mane Six ponies. I still thoroughly ship Rarijack and enjoyed the bread crumbs sprinkled upon us this season.
Because that’s all we got of any LGBTQ rep this season: bread crumbs.
We’ve now gone through 7 seasons and there is no prominent, dispel , or important representation of LGBTQ communities or identities. The only instances are background or implied, enjoy Rainbow Dash, Lyra and BonBon, and stolen glances that are rife with subtext depending on how the viewer interprets the show. The most prominent trans rep is the one episode where Massive Mac is Orchard Blossom, but that episode is controversial and Orchard Blossom hasn’t come up since.
I didn’t have an issue with the lack of clear LGBTQ rep in earlier seasons because adoration in general wasn’t part of the show. However, more recent seasons own included some very explicit het romances like Cadence and Shining Armor, Great Mac and that kind pony he delivers apples to, Twilight and Flas
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When I was younger, I watched a lot of “My Little Pony.” Something about colorful ponies who liked rainbows and glitter and stereotypically “girly” things just spoke to me as a child who liked those same things.
I grew up on MLP Generation 4, the series “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” and its “Equestria Girls” spin off movies. I loved both the series and the movies immensely, and I still do. Each pony has her control distinct personality, and none of the Mane 6 are static characters—they are well-rounded, and they learn and mature like anyone else. The storylines, though understandably juvenile, are interesting, and each pony has same room to encounter challenges. The Gen 4 characters and their world keep a very unique place in my heart, and I still enjoy rewatching the series and the Equestria Girls movies.
So when I heard about the new Generation 5 movie, I was skeptical. They weren’t going to be using the Gen 4 characters, so I didn’t own to worry
On This Gay Afternoon | ‘My Minuscule Pony’ introduced a same-sex couple
On this day in 2019 animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic included for the first time a same-sex couple.
The episode The Last Crusade, written by Nicole Dubuc, screened in the USA, but it was several years before it had an Australian broadcast.
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In the story one of the characters Scootaloo and her friends Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, known collectively as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, join with Scootaloo’s caretakers Aunt Holiday and Auntie Lofty. Holiday and Lofty are a same sex couple.
The emergence of lesbian animated horses on television upset conservative commentators across Australia.
Lyle Shelton, who at the time was the spokesperson for the now defunct Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives, said the inclusion of a identical sex couple in My Little Pony was proof that allowing same-sex marriage would lead to children being ‘indoctrinated’.
“It’s a brave recent world folks and we need to push back while we still can. Sitting outside politics is no longer an option for conservatives.” Shelton posted to social media.
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LGBTQ+ themes in My Small Pony
This article is a topic. It is meant to illustrate a theme, motif or recurring element throughout the My Minuscule Pony franchise. As such, it's not truly an in-universe or out-of-universe article, but more of an essay of sorts.
"With Josh and Nicole running the final season together, it was something we all wanted to perform — bring this out couple into the terminal season and make them [LGBTQ+ people] ‘officially’ a part of the MLP world. My Little Pony has always been about friendship and accepting people (or ponies) that are different from you. So it just felt prefer something important to do." — Michael Vogel[1]
As societal norms change and progress, LGBT representation in My Little Pony progressed greatly. In the tardy 2010s, numerous characters were confirmed to be Homosexual and a handful of new ones were introduced. In an out-of-universe perspective, My Little Pony was the target of numerous anti-LGBTQ+ controversies and strikes, due to its depiction of rainbows and other iconography attributed with Diverse culture in the earlier seasons, to outrage regarding same-sex couples in the later seasons.
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