Why is everyone in steven universe gay

About a year ago I first started hearing about a little show called Steven Universe on Cartoon Network. It dealt with a little boy and his Gem friends saving the world. Then some gifs started appearing that made the show seem, well, pretty gay. LGBT fans have a tendency to latch onto any possible inference of a character being gay and treat their queerness as fact.

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To not let them be anything but happy. Here, Ruby and Sapphire are allowed to bicker and be mean to each other. They have a fight, just like any other couple, which normalizes their relationship even more. They eventually make up in the end with a flurry of kisses, which is a rare instance of lesbian characters especially getting a happy ending.

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This isn't a secret and it never has been. Rebecca Sugar has been completely open about how hard they had to fight against homophobia at Cartoon Network. Steven Universe is a case study of anti-queer censorship from a mindset of "think of the children. Steven Universe is a historically significant piece of queer media, and watching in real-time as it went from "progressive queer show" to "the subject of the most rancid bad-faith discourse I have ever seen" is genuinely alarming to me as a queer media hobby-historian.

October 5, edited. Clearly you dont know Garnet.. Ruby and Sapphire aren't a gay couple. Ruby and Sapphire, are 2 asexual beings in a nonsexual, romantic relationship.