(TheBlaze) – Disney’s kids’ cartoon “DuckTales” has introduced a gay couple — two dads — as the parents of Violet, who’s a friend of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, LGBTQ Nation reported. Violet’s dads adopt her friend Lena in the episode, the outlet said, adding that Violet dubs her “my sister from a couple of misters.”

Their names are Tyrian “Ty” Sabrewing and Indigo “Indy” Sabrewing, LGBTQ Nation said. They both wear T-shirts with the phrase “I’M WITH DAD” on the front along with arrows pointing at each other.


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“DuckTales” co-executive producer and story editor Frank Angones noted that “we had a lot of conversations about who Violet was and what her background was and came up with this fun notion of her too enthusiastic, overly supportive dads who love being dads.”

“I’m well aware that the ‘queer representation through parents and background characters’ trope is an issue, and we’ve sort of stumbled backward into a lot of heteronormative romances in this show due to legacy characters with pre-existing relationships (Scrooge and Goldie, Donald and Daisy, Fenton and Gandra) and how many specific hoops you have to jump through to make changes to established Disney characters,” Angones said. READ MORE