American Girl's History Of LGBT Representation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Happy pride month! After watching a video by @DarlingDollz, I wanted to talk about all of the instances that American Girl has addressed the LGBT community. From characters, books and even fan speculation, I attempted to compile the history of American Girl's LGBT representation.
Watch Darling dollz's video: • A Brief History of LGB...
Note: I did use the term queer throughout the video, but after exporting the video I learned that some people are uncomfortable with the term. I do apologize if anyone felt uncomfortable by the wording I used.
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Happy pride month! Did any examples of representation surprise you?
Going into this video, I had no idea the crushes book existed so I’m glad I was able to read excerpts of it during my research!
@AGcoffee Aww thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed it
There is a poster in the community center that says equality and each letter is a different pride flag
Where did you get that GORGEOUS dress!! I want it for my doll when she comes back from the doll hospital.
@@katlynwebb5755 it’s one of the spring dresses from a few years ago. I forget the name though
@@AllycatlovesAG I love this!!!
Trans icon Coconut! 💖
Great video! I can't believe how much AG has been featured in the news lately. It's crazy. Especially given what the articles are about 😭
Every year some people on agig make homophobic posts and get called out and cancelled for it, but it has never made the news before. TH-cam is a lot more individual then agig, so even though I am sure homophobic agtubers exist (some were in that collab post), pride just isn’t talked about as much on agtube
@@AllycatlovesAG It sucks that AG attracts so many backwards-minded people. But it was really nice seeing so many people come together to fight back against the hate too.
In the community center in the wbu line, there is a sign that says “equality”, and the letters are filled in with pride flags!
There were so many stickers I may have missed that one
yeee!!
I’m a transgender boy. I love American girl. I would love to see a trans boy best friend doll. I would even volunteer to sell my life story to be his.
I would love to see that too!
@@AllycatlovesAG he has wavy ‘08 Emo boy black hair and a classic mold. Brown eyes, and the skin tone of Z. :-) his name is Tommy and he plays guitar and his accessories are all band tees and skinny jeans with mini converse. He has 12 different hats, half of which are visor beanies. His body has visible top surgery scars. And he is 19.
I’m also a trans boy! But I really want a trans girl ag doll, that’d be amazing
I'm agender I would love a trans doll so much
@@lillyrose1873 I can make you one. :-)
It sucks that AG doesn't have more forms of representation but I did really admire the fact that the published a book talking about body image and gender dysmorphia. These are important issues that a lot of trans people struggle with, but is never addressed in society.
exactly!!!!
I'm glad they updated the non-fiction books to be more inclusive, that's a great step in the right direction. I think a doll who is trans would be awesome. I always chuckle over Coconut.
Omg, I didn't even realize that Kira's aunts were gay. I legitimately thought that she somehow got both sides of her families to live with her. I also have never owned Kira and am just going off of things I saw on their website and snippets of the book. Kids would've never noticed it and if they did, just don't make a big deal. The fact that the conservative moms are creating a mountain out of a mole hill and giving it such a negative connotation really breaks my heart.
As someone who is part of the LGBTQ+ community, we don't have an agenda for kids. We would just like people to know we exist and treat us with respect. That's all.
as a member of the community myself, when i found out about Kira's moms i literally cried tears of joy. also i doubt it'll ever happen but i have a concept goty with an older sibling who is non-binary because i am myself :) happy Pride to my fellow queer ag fans!!!
-Ceci (they/them)
They are kira's aunt's. Not her parents. Her dad died and her mom is probably straight.
@@CraftyMagicDollz yea that's what i meant to say. i was tired lmao
Thank you for spreading love to the lgbtq community through this ag deep dive! It’s refreshing to see it after all the drama on agig
No problem!
Fascinating video. I had a lot of the Girl’s Guide books growing up, I’m glad to hear that AG have updated them.
Me too! I should buy updated copies
I know absolutely nothing about American Girl dolls as I didn't grow up with them, but I'm 26 and you make me want to collect them lmao
Go for it! There is nothing wrong with being an adult collector
i love this! thank you for making a video about this! i love your videos ally!
Thank you!
YES, LOVE THIS! I am a lesbian who loves AG and might have made the prototype of my lesbian romance movie script with my AG dolls.... *yeah I did lol*
Omg I love you channel
I am also lesbian
@@IsaTo10 thx!
Oh hey, you run American Girl Doll News,
@@SydneyJeanFilms love your blog
One issue of the AG magazine had a photo of a girl with two dads that caused an uproar.
I am openly Bi and this video made me smile so much im so happy that people are now more accepting and share things like this so thank you so much from a person in the LGBTQ+ community
You’re welcome! It’s a bit scary as LGBTQ+ isn’t discussed as much on agtube compared to agig, and even though I know that most people including myself support the community, there will always be comments from people against it. I’ve been checking comments every few minutes to make sure nothing gets too wild, but I think as one of the bigger voices in the agtube community it is important to talk about these things and educate people. Glad you enjoyed!
@@AllycatlovesAG that is very true thank you so much for helping raise awareness of this
Great video! Hopefully ag will add more lgbtq+ in the future, but I actually never knew about any of the representation in the guide books :)
Most of my smart girls books in my collection are from the late 2000’s to early 2010’s so my versions aren’t the most updated
Also wanted to add there was a monthly magazine that came from American girl and they had stories from real life and there was this one girl who was adopted with all of her siblings by two gay men it's pretty small but my mom made sure to make a big deal about it 😂🙄
Ooh cool
Genderfluid myself came out almost 9 months ago
me, as a nonbinary person that named myself after kit: *watching this video*
this video: "there have been articles posted online ranking the dolls based on gayness and kit is often very high on that"
me: "yep"
As a queer person who had Kit growing up love that she was the speculated queer one 😂👍
SAME HERE!!😭
Love this!!! Great job:))
“Here’s all the LGBT relationship advice you’ll ever need”- I NEED that book!!
Happy pride month. Great video about the books. Way to go AG on this.!
Thank you for the video!!! God bless 💓
I love this video. As a supporter of the lgbtaq+ community this was great. I wish American Girl would have more LGBT plus characters in their stories and dolls but I can understand why they don't. This made me want to Kiraa doll even more because like Kira I also grew up with two Aunts who are a part of the lgbtaq community. If they made a dollar part of the community I would buy they a heartbeat.
So this is obviously just me speculating andcI might be way off but from what I found by reading Molly's books I speculated that she was either gay or bi because of how she was talking about her teacher. Now she may have just been nice or something but tbh the way she talked about her teacher like her eyes sparkled and how her braclets glistened in the sunlight it sounded to me like more of a girl crush. I just read Likas book and the way she talked about McKenna made me wonder if mabey she had feeling for her. But I'm probably way off. Just my thoughts from reading some books.
I love this video!!! Happy pride month!! Also what do you use to edit your thumbnails?
I use photoshop. There is a video on my channel about how I make my thumbnails and I also showed how to use canva which is free
I herd about the rumor about molly and then with kit theirs that rumor too. Now with the 1930s and 1940s they did not apove it.
Idea 💡 video on other agyters / agigers that are part of the lgbtq+ community and their dolls characters that represent the community
That seems a lot harder to research. Plus some people aren’t fully out of the closet to people irl or even online. I like the idea though
I feel like Molly aunt Eleanor gave huge lesbian vibes
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Don’t forget Cecilé and Marie-Grace! They definitely had some rainbow butterflies around them. 🌈♥️
I haven’t read their stories but I’ve seen the memes
World lgbtqia community right now so please 🙏 🙌 😢 👏 ❤️
hey ally! u probably dont remember me but i was on agtube for a while but i stopped abt a year ago, i miss u and the whole community so much and i just want to say that ive finally figured out myself and am beginning to express it thru art, i rlly hope ur doing well,
cameras xoxo
That’s amazing! If you ever need to talk feel free to reach out to me on Instagram!
of course, thank youu!! ♡
Kit will always be our gay queen
Girl what?
Ahhhh! Ever since I saw your community tab post yesterday I've been waiting for this! I love this video SO much. I think american girl needs more lgbtq+ representation and it's good to show kids that it's okay for a girl to like a girl or a boy to like a boy or to not even like anybody. I also think that american girl should come out with maybe a non binary doll. Happy pride! 🏳️🌈
Thank you so much for this! I knew about a lot of this, but not about the body image book. I don’t think AG will do too much, especially after the uproar with Kira, but it would be cool to see a non binary or transgender doll (story wise anyways, clothes and hair are the only thing on the dolls themselves that can reveal gender).
Also, gay marriage became legal in the U.S. in 2015 via our Supreme Court. Unfortunately though, there are a lot of anti-LGBT laws being passed in a lot of states such as banning talk of LGBT topics in schools and banning gender-affirming healthcare for trans kids. It’s really sad and frustrating.
Anyways, great video! Hopefully AG includes more representation in the future.
Yeah. Canada is a lot more left leaning then USA, we legalized gay marriage in 2005 and our prime minister has even attended pride events. There are definitely still many people who oppose gay marriage but not as many as usa
this is a really important subject and i’m super glad you made this video. i’m surprised at the amount of representation in the smart girls guide books, but happily surprised that kids reading them will learn all these things that are perfectly normal and okay to be and feel!
Yes!! I was surprised too
I think it would be cool if one of the dolls was trans, and the book was about the trans experience and coming out to their parents or friends.
That would be so cool and would be a huge step for the community!
Yes I would love that!!
U know most of the dolls they got are 10-12 right u really want a trans doll like girl what?
@@PinkPengwin why are you complaining about a trans doll when trans people literally did nothing to you, don't mean you any harm, and their lives don't affect you at all?
@@SkyeID so you want a 10 year old becoming trans and potentially cutting things off or adding things to there body just for them to regret it in a few years? I mean I don’t really care if they add gay or lesbian or bisexual but I just don’t know abt trans
@@PinkPengwin people don't just wake up one day and decide to be trans, just like they don't just wake up one day and decide to be gay, lesbian or bi. Trans children don't get surgeries. The regret rate of transition is less than 1%.
I don’t assign sexualities to my AG characters because I only stay with the canon of confirmed pieces of their stories so I just consider it “unknown” - However my JLYs and customs I do, because they’re all 15-17 and I create their stories. My Poppy is lesbian, Isla is straight, Ivy is bisexual, and Ximena is straight
I would like to start a petition to get ag to make a lgbtq doll of the year. If they did a trans doll for one of the upcoming years. Like to support!
Yes!
Omg thank you ally! I always get excited whenever TH-camrs agree with me
Also thank you for the advise about naming my dolls. Names that are the same backwards and forewords always jump out to me, so I decided to do I decided to do Hannah
@@IsaTo10 well it’s the right opinion haha
Thank you!
I love this, but I think that American girl might not do much lgbtq because little kids buy these dolls and I don’t think parents with a 7 year old would want there kid to hear about all that when their kid is that young. And also, even just straight love stories are never visible in the dolls books. There are little kids buying these dolls, and no matter what everyone on agtube does, kids under 10 will still be their main buyers and they need to keep it appropriate.
Even if ag doesn’t want to depict a love story, there are always parents, friends and older siblings who could have a relationship. And I think it’s important to teach young kids to be accepting
I could not agree with you more!
American girl needs to keep lit little kid appropriate.
@@AllycatlovesAG I totally agree. Maybe just not with the main doll herself, cause parents will get upset. Like, the dolls go up to 5th grade only. To little to be having relationships. Maybe crushes. But yes your 100% right. For side characters that are older, it’s great for kids to get a bit of a a hint.
@@Audrey_Moser Ag is in it for money so who knows how much they will advertise an lgbt character
@@AllycatlovesAG Fair point. Don’t want to hate, love your channel❤️
any body team karta kirsten marta ship
I really hope we have more LGBTQ+ representation in the World By Us line since they are around 13 years old, which is around the time I realized I was LGBTQ+ so....
We’ll see. I hope so too but those conservative moms…
I'd love to see an ag smart girl's that explores gender identity exclusively (& in detail) past just "girls" and
" boys" to help young queer people feel more accepted and included. 💕
I hate AG’s gendered marketing so much!! It infuriates me (but would work very well as a paper for my major).
another cool idea would be a boy of the year, who is trans and maybe he just came out to his parents?
Also there was a rumor maritza was bisexual
Oh and happy pride month
I think too much emphasis is put on the sexuality of these 10-year old girls. One of them had two mothers and that seems to have been quite timely. Otherwise I just think the community is far too obsessed with this. Sorry - I know my opinion is not that of the majority. I am just so bored with it.
Yeah I don’t wanna be rude to this video but I think it’s dumb to have a trans 10 year old like girl people take things way to far
lgbtq+ people want to express our joy at openly being ourselves, so we talk about our identities and experiences, we create communities, and we want to see ourselves represented in the world. Some of us spent decades in the closet, hiding who we are in fear. We're not hiding who we are. If straight people can just live their lives without anyone challenging their existence, or telling them they're too obsessed with being heterosexuals, we should be able to live our lives the same way.
@@SkyeID I think - specials be ot homo-, trans-, or hetero-, is just overblown in the world of young children which is the target market for American Girl. Among older collectors it is different but we shouldn't sexualize children one way or another for our own sake.
@@lisbetsoda4874 whoa! I never said anything about sexualizing children! You're the one who brought it up, and frankly it's gross that your mind even goes there. LGBTQ+ adult minds aren't going there, but you're convinced that we are sexualizing children "for our own sake". You've already decided what nasty things you wanna believe about our community, and no amount of conversing with you that we don't think that way is gonna make a difference.
Personally I find it creepy when adults ship minor characters.
I've seen the kit and ruthie ship.
I just find it creepy. They are 10 years old
I've never been into shipping culture so it's not something I've participated in. The only ag ship I have is Tenney and Logan, but moreso if they grow up and remain friends...
Thank goodness they are getting some representation even if it’s settle
Happy pride month 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
For a while people thought courtney might be gay
Molly was the only American Girl doll I had, and I'm a lesbian. You could imagine my initial excitement when Molly was re-released durring Pride Month.
If only she was 100% confirmed to be LGBTQ+. That would have explained the journey to my true-self so much. XD
Literally so many people are saying things like “I bought a doll for Christmas and I am returning it at once!” And I am just overflowing with love for that company. It is so fricking rare to see a company that puts values before sales and I cannot be more proud to have grown up with AG. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
People keep hoping for a GOTY in the community and as much a I would love to see that representation, AG would never do it because of backlash. I really hope they continue to use their brand to educate children about these things and that they don't cave in to the negative press
I am actually a very conservitive person although I do support lgbt+ I think it is okay to add a little bit in american girl I also don't think two ten year olds would date beacuse they are both very young I think diversity is great like how they make dolls with disabillities I would in the future like to see more representation in american girl I would love it espeically if they made a bi doll I would love that I don't know why but I would defently buy a bisexual doll.
"Others don't get crushes at all"
THE ARO REP WHATTT 🖤🤍💚