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Chocolate Cortés — Dominican & Puerto Rican

Cultura Craft — Mexican-American

Don Gustavo — Mexican

Luker — Colombian

Rey Amargo — Mexican

Pride Icons are now available for June! Made one for Nyra with the various examples/combos of how they can work :) You can also get one for yourself if you don't want one for a character! ((and obviously multiple flags can be used especially if you want one flag for the flower colors and another for the BG))

FLAMING GAY RIGHTS!

[phone ringing]

Scout: “Yeah, pizza.  What do you want?”

Demoman: “Let me get a… BONELESS PIZZA WITH A… TWO LITER OF COKE.”

Scout: “Fuck kinda pizza…?  And TWO LITER MACHINE BROKE.  We got a one liter, though.”

Demoman: “Fuck you mean, B?  Aight, look, let me get that pizza BONELESS.”

Scout: “Uh, pizza don’t got bone on it.”

Demoman: “The fuck did I just say, then?”

Scout: “You said, ‘LET ME GET IT BONELESS’, like pizza got a damn bone in it.”

Demoman: “Y’ALL GOT BONES ON THE SHIT, THEN.”

Scout: “Naw!”

Demoman: “So what’s the problem?”

Scout: “DICKHEAD.  Name one pizza that got bone on it.”

Demoman: “JUST DON’T PUT THOSE SHITS IN MY PIZZA, BRUH.  How many times do I gotta say it?”

Scout: “Bro, just explain to me how the fuck pizza can be boneless.”

Demoman: “If it don’t got bone in it, it’s BONELESS.”

Scout: “Son, what school you go to?”

Lemme say that again: In 2013, it was expected that gay characters would be censored in children’s mass media.

Remember Korra? How she and Asami had to settle for ambiguous handholding rather than a kiss? That was fully a year after House of Hades came out. Nickelodeon said No Gays, the Children™ can’t handle that. Too risky. And people said man that stinks, but that’s how these things go in 2014 America.

Gay marriage was literally still illegal in the vast majority of US states. As of October 8th, 2013 (House of Hades release date) Gay Marriage was only a thing in thirteen fucking states. California had only legalized it that year.

Gay people were still very much on the fringes of society. It was an acceptable political position on both sides of the aisle to be against the existence and equal rights of gay people.

Nico was legitimately a landmark character in queer representation. To my knowledge, there wasn’t before an openly gay main character in a bestselling ya/middle grade fantasy fiction series. It simply was not a thing. They didn’t exist. They weren’t allowed to exist.

I remember people crying. Finally. It was a watershed moment. Kids all across the world finally got someone who represented them. It was such a big fucking deal. And it was controversial!!! Not for the reasons it is today, but because people thought gay kids having representation was inappropriate.

Is Nico’s coming out a great scene? No, these days it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure Rick wishes he could change it. But the fact that’s the case is a wonderful reflection of how far we’ve come.

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