The new Netflix kids’ show Ridley Jones features a nonbinary bison and a mummy girl with two mummy dads. LGBTQ representation in children’s television moves forward Dana Rudolph | Contributing Writer Several television shows for young children, including the venerable Sesame Street, have recently introduced LGBTQ characters, and a new one launching this month promises even more inclusion.
For the episode “Family Day,” on June 17, Sesame Street included a two-dad couple in the main “Full Street Story” segment of the show for the first time. (Same-sex parents had been briefly mentioned or shown in a few smaller segments before.) In “Family Day,” we meet Dave (Chris Costa), his husband Frank (Alex Weisman) and their daughter Mia (Olivia