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News June 15, 2019
Lesbian ponies coming to Discovery Family kids show

My Little Pony is debuting a new same-sex couple and it's generating some buzz... but less than it would have a few years ago.
Caleb Howe

The children's show 'My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic' on Discovery Family Channel will be introducing a new lesbian couple .. of ponies.. in an episode airing the week of June 16, one of the show's writers announced.

The episode "The Last Crusade" will feature ponies Aunt Holiday and Auntie Loft, and writer Michael Vogel tweeted about the TV premier of the two characters, relating the moment to P***e Month.

That tweet resulted in a few flame wars on Twitter, (which Vogel pretty successfully avoided being d**gged into but did snark-Tweet about), as well as various messages of support for the move.

He also made sure to be expressly clear about the characters, and not to try to walk a line of ambiguous implication.

They are lesbians.
— mktoon (@mktoon) June 15, 2019

Daily Wire's Paul Bois points out that in an interview with Buzzfeed, Vogel, who is gay, stated that "diversity and representation" are his top concern in writing kid's shows.

"Diversity and representation are important for kids for so many reasons, and it's my first priority on everything I work on," Vogel told Buzzfeed. "'My Little Pony' has always been about friendship and accepting people (or ponies) that are different from you. So it just felt like something important to do."

Vogel has, in the past, Tweeted about L**T actvism, as well as on the topic of Christians and Christianity, and that came up again after the news about the episode got around social media.

The writer is expressly framing the depiction of the characters in terms of activism, and as an effort to advance the ideals and values he holds. That is important to note, because when anyone who does object says so, they'll be characterized as paranoid for suggesting it's a form of activism, despite the fact that the writer intends it to be so and treats it as such himself.

Still, the respectful and calm tweeting, and the abundance of L**T characters and storylines on TV will probably mean this creates less of splash than it would have just a few years ago, and will end up under considerably less controversy.

Carol Kelly

Take the children and you take the country. This has gone too far. Responsible parents need to stand up against this. Just turn off the tv or, heck, throw it out in th
Garbage and get some good old books. Read to the children and grandchildren.

federally indicted mattoid

It's a child hunt! Must be looked into. So scandalous!

bahmer

Amen and Amen

Rose42

Targeting children this way is indefensible.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

This is just too weird but in these times of 32 or so g****rs, who knows what will happen next.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

The only control anyone has over the channels is to block them.

badbob85037

If democRats had their way if your child was not aborted it would have a s*x c****e if he or she wanted it our not. Only one thing more sick than forcing this sick sex crap on a kid that doesn't even know what sex is and that's a San Francisco gay cross dressing t***sformer.

federally indicted mattoid

Sounds like a weird video game. Where you from bb? Prison?

TrueAmerican

It's the demonRAT way !!!!!!

debeda

Oh for God's sake. REALLY? Like little kids give a crap who's doing who. They dont even want to know what it is who is doing to who

debeda

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

I h**e it, but they won't stop. The simple answer why is they are bullies, the very things they most h**e. Now since they have a taste of power.... Someone once asked me what my view of lesbians was it's in HD.

woodguru

Oh the horror, changing kids into gays

Exposure to gays being okay is never going to turn a straight kid into a homo, it simply allows kids to feel okay about being honest about it.

Rose42

Its child abuse and its condoning mental illness. There's nothing okay about it.