SpongeBob Lands in Nickelodeon's Roundup of LGBT Characters
Although sea sponges do not have a gender.
Nickelodeon posted a Pride support message on Twitter — a show of support for the LGBT community. The post features a collage of LGBT figures, including SpongeBob SquarePants — the title character of the channel's eponymous cartoon series.
“We are celebrating Pride together with the LGBT community and their allies this month and every month,” the message said.
The image of SpongeBob was placed next to transgender actor Michael Cohen (the series “Dangerous Henry”) and bisexual character Korra from the animated series “Avatar: The Legend of Korra.”
In 2005, a Christian organization in the US claimed that the series “SpongeBob SquarePants” promotes homosexuality. At the time, the cartoon's creator Stephen Hillenburg (a marine biologist by training) insisted that the main characters, SpongeBob (a sea sponge) and Patrick Star (a starfish), are genderless.
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