Kid's Show Legend of Korra Concludes With Same-Sex Relationship

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From The Daily Beast:

 

Nickelodeon’s animated hit series The Legend of Korra was always progressive. It went places American children’s television typically avoids, with an ethnically diverse cast of characters—including a number of powerful, complicated girls and women—tackling deep issues like social inequality, war, and PTSD. With its series finale, Korra went even further: It revealed that its main heroine, Korra, and another female character named Asami were in love.

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/25/yep-korra-and-asami-went-in-the-spirit-portal-and-probably-kissed.html

 

Reading between the lines, Nickolodeon probably nixed showing Korra and Asami kissing, a restriction that's hotly debated, But the fact that a children's show went there and the creators confirmed what it meant afterward is still a step forward, though as co-creator Bryan Konietzko said on his blog, the scene is only “a somewhat significant inching forward,” rather than a “slam-dunk victory for queer representation.”