Kids/Teen TV

Television Genres/Themes

Asian Beefcake

Beefcake Dads of 1950s Sitcoms

Black Beefcake

Cartoon Muscle: Not just superheroes in Spandex

Disney Channel Gay Programming Blocks

Dumbest Things You See on TV

From Muscle Beach to the Cimarron Strip: TV Westerns of the 1950

Mary and Rhoda and Gordie the Weatherman: Hip Urban Sitcoms

Nickelodeon Teen Hunks of the 1990s

Razzle Dazzle: TV Variety Shows of the 1970s

Saturday Morning:

1960s: Zandor, Tor, and Chuck

1970s: Beefcake

1970s: More Beefcake

Saved by the Bell Clones

Swinging Bachelor Detectives of the 1960s
  

They Had Faces Then: TV hunks before beefcake

Toddler TV

Totalitarian TV: Underdog and Friends

The Worst Finales in Television History

Children's Programs/Cartoons

ABC Saturday Superstar Movie

Adventure Time: Gay-positive cartoon series

Andy's Gang: Beefcake and bonding on 1950s childrens tv

Animaniacs: Heterosexist to the max

Beany and Cecil: The Gay 1960

Bob's Burgers: The most gay-positive sitcom in animated tv

The Bugaloos: A male ladybug with biceps starts a rock band

Bugs and Daffy: The gay Warner Brothers

Cartoon Couples You Thought Were Gay

Chip n Dale: Park Life.  Is the gay subtext enhanced or erased?

Clarence: The first gay kiss on children's tv

Danger Island: Jan-Michael Vincent's first boyfriends

Davey and Goliath: Gay Christian Allies

The Flintstones

 Bamm-Bamm's muscles

Were Fred and Barney gay?

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Ghostwriter; Urban teen muscle

Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Nergel and Irwin, gay couple

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Is there any LGBT representation in the 2021 Netflix reboot?

H.R. Pufnstuf: The Dragon and the Witch compete over Jimmy's...um...flute

Jellystone: Closeting, transphobia, and Yogi Bear

Jonny Quest: Gay in the 1960s, hetero in the 1980s

Land of the Lost: Yet another teenager trapped far from home, with Sleestaks

Lidsville: Butch Patrick's bubble bath

The Loud House: Gay dads on Nickelodeon

Mickey Mouse Club: Were any of the Mousketeers gay?

 The Mighty Hercules

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, with some gay neighbors

 Mystery Island: A muscular Stephen Parr and the robot from Lost in Space

New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Pee-wee's Playhouse: Did somebody say "Swish"?

Pinky and the Brain: The same thing we do every night

Regular Show: anything but heterosexist

Ren and Stimpy: Nickelodeon's disgusting gay couple

Rick and Morty: More homophobic than Family Guy?

Rocky and Bullwinkle: A gay couple, fairy princes, and Boris Badenov

Sanjay and Craig
 

Sesame Street

Gay content and muppets

A gay couple arrives (no, not Bert and Ernie)

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters: Johnny Whitaker and his boyfriend encounter a blob

The Simpsons Beefcake: Homer, Bart, and company bulk up on Deviant Art

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo: Flipper down under

Tiny Toon Adventures: Not what you think

Tiny Toons University: The toons go to college, learn drag techniques from Bugs Bunny

Ultimate Spider-Man: The ten ultimate hunks

Venture Brothers: Beefcake, d*cks, and some gay teases

Yogi Bear and Boo Boo

You Can't Do That on Television

Teen Programs

100 Things to do Before High School: Nickelodeon teencom with major hunkage

Aaron Stone: Superhero and android

The Adventures of Pete and Pete

Boy Meets World: Topanga isn't jealous of her boyfriend's boyfriend.  Much

Charles in Charge: the first teencom

Danger Force:

The gay dads episode

Trans and nonbinary representation

Dog with a Blog: absurd homophobia on Nickelodeon

Drake and Josh and Craig and Eric: yep, they were gay

Eerie Indiana: Omri Katz, paranormal investigator

Even Stevens: Shia LaBeouf's gay subtext teencom

Hannah Montana and the Real Dan Booko

The Hard Times of RJ Berger: A teencom where size matters

Henry Danger: A gay subtext classic

I Didn't Do It: Disney Channel teencom with underwear models

ICarly: Gay villains and bisexual brothers

Katts and Dog: Andrew Bednarski gets tied up

Kenan and Kel: Nickelodeon gay teen duo

Kickin' It: Jack and Jerry, a modern romance

Lab Rats: Bionic brothers

Mako Mermaids

The Monkees and Davy Jones

Mr. Young: Boy genius and buffed best friend take on high school

My Secret Identity: Featuring Jerry O'Connell. No, it's not being gay

Out of This World and, sigh, Steve Burton

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

The Patty Duke Show: Out of the heterosexual nuclear family box

Round the Twist: Three Australian kids and a ghost

Sabrina the Teenage Witch, featuring Nate Richert's kielbasa

Salute Your Shorts: At least one of the campers was gay

Sam and Cat: The gayest show on teen tv

Saved by the Bell:

Thinking of a reason for Mario Lopez to take his shirt off

The clones

Second Chance: Matthew Perry before Friends, and Billy Gallo before...

Sonny with a Chance/So Random

Space Cases: Star Trek: Voyager for kids

Spellbinder: Shirtless teen in a Polish-Australian fantasy world

Spin and Marty: Summer camp boys in love

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

Teen Angels of the 1960s and 1990s

The Thundermans: Gay supervillains in training

The Tomorrow People: British science fiction with clones and short-shorts

The Tripods: John Christopher's teen dystopia finds a home on British tv

True Jackson VP: The first gay character on teen tv

 Unfabulous: The mostly unfabulous adventures of a middle school heterosexual

Victorious: Almost a gay victory

The Villains of Valley View: Classic Disney teencom about a family with secrets

Violetta: Ten teen hunks on one Disney channel soap opera

The Wizards of Waverly Place

Zoey 101: Your big brother's gay subtexts