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Pride Month Picks: The Owl Property Changed The Landscape Of Queer Animation
This article is part of Pride Month Picks, a collection of pieces that aim to highlight queer representation across games, television, film, books, and more throughout June.
Yes, I’m writing about The Owl House again. I can’t be stopped, and given its on hiatus I need to cope with the lack of new episodes somehow. But instead of focusing on a specific character, theme, or theory like usual - to celebrate Pride Month I need to look at how much Dana Terrace’s fantastical show has done for LGBTQ+ representation.
I tuned into the show from its first episode, watching from afar as the fandom began to form around Luz Noceda and her magical adventures amidst The Boiling Isles. Themes of initiate family, personal acceptance, and learning to be a stronger person in spite of societal expectations across the first handful of episodes established the bedrock for what was to come. From here it was off to the fruity races, and we’ve never looked back.
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&#;All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way&#; &#; Leo Tolstoy,
The same principle apparently applies to animation. Over the last few years, I have watched and reviewed quite a number of modern cartoons, namely She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Castlevania, Hilda, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Voltron: Legendary Defender, and in doing so, I&#;ve realized that the ones that are nice (and most of them are) tend to be good in very similar ways. At least from my perspective, there is a commonality in the factors that make an animated demonstrate stand out, structures of plot and characterization that work together to elevate it into something memorable and impactful. Which is my roundabout way of saying that even though I really, really liked The Owl House, I&#;m having trouble thinking of what to write about it. It&#;s good! It&#;s really good! But it&#;s good in the same ways that a lot of modern animated shows are really good, to the gesture where I could (almost) compose this by copy-
The Owl House’s Gay Kiss Just Showed Young Viewers That It’s Okay To Be Queer
Coming out of the closet isn’t straightforward. Young queer people are made to sacrifice potentially everything just to be themselves. Family could abandon them, friends could urge them away, and society as a whole could deem them as something to be thrown aside and ostracized. I’m a tremendously proud pansexual transwoman, but even now I doubt my own identity, scared that I’ll never live up to my own internal expectations and those others have of me. It’s an irrational mindset, but one that’s shared by many in the LGBTQ+ community.
The Owl House’s second season has expressed this struggle beautifully through the characters of Amity Blight and Luz Noceda. I’ve written about the show’s focus on youthful rebellion and the importance of its queer themes before, but the whole ordeal reaches a unused crescendo with its latest episode. ‘Through The Looking Glass Ruins’ is both delightfully gay and a poignant glimpse at the struggles of being in the closet, where
The Owl House is So Gay, and I Love It
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Disney’s show The Owl House is gay, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. I imply it’s one of the optimal shows in the world because of the canon women-loving-women (WLW) representation.
Luz Noceda, a human, began the show by avoiding a summer camp to make her more “normal” by accidentally entering a weird, magical realm packed of witches and demons called the Boiling Isles where everything is deadly – but in a fun way. If you’ve seen Gravity Falls, it has the same vibes.
As season one progresses it becomes obvious that Luz Noceda is bisexual, and Dana Terrace, the show’s creator, confirmed her bisexuality on Twitter. Now, we know that sometimes creators like the infamous JK Rowling have used Twitter to confirm things that may or may not be reflected in the art, but Luz is clearly written to be bisexual, writing that is all the more authentic and genuine given that Terrace is bisexual herself. Luz is shown to possess an interest in men and to have a huge crush on a girl named Amity Blight, who later can