Disney XD's 'DuckTales' Series Introduces Gay Duck Dads

Disney's latest gay characters are a pair of dads on their animated XD series, DuckTales!

For those old school fans unfamiliar with the new series, yes it still features the antics of Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. In last week's Season 3 premiere, "Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks," Huey competes against his friends Violet and Lena for a promotion to Senior, Junior Woodchuck. 

In this episode, it's revealed that Lena has been adopted by Violet's two dads. We meet them for the first time and they're both wearing shirts that read, "I'm With Dad" with arrows pointing at each other.

During the Junior Woodchuck meeting, Lena excitedly cheers for Violet, yelling "That's my sister from a couple misters!" while their dads proudly clap at her side.  

Fans of the show are so thankful for the moment. "Seeing gay representation in my favorite show means the world to me," writes one. "I love that they’re fathers to two beloved characters."

Co-executive producer and story editor Frank Angones spoke on the monumental moment on Tumblr, explaining that while the dad's don't have a huge role in the show at the moment, even more LGBTQ+ representation is coming.

"Want to be very up front and honest about this: Violet’s dads are present and show up but do not play a huge role in the story thus far. As with all of our characters, 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. We didn’t really have a story built around them, but when the time came for an episode focusing on Huey and Violet in a particular situation, it made sense that they would be there (and it resulted in Matt Humphreys coming up with one of my favorite Lena lines ever). But I’m well aware that the “queer representation through parents and background characters” trope is an issue, and we’ve sort of stumbled backwards 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 (Again, please read my future book). But that’s really no excuse. We’ve done pretty well on racial diversity and representation of people with limb differences, but we really have not done enough relevant LGBTQ+ rep. We do have some themes and ideas coming up that address relevant LGBTQ+ narratives. But there’s always opportunity for a lot more; I don’t want a cop out and a cookie for saying “look at this one thing we did!” I know this response is a bit of a bummer, but I didn’t want to lead anyone on. But please believe, as I’ve said before, I’m dedicated to being better and finding new opportunities for three dimensional representation, on this show and the next and the next."

Hooray for the small victories, and we can't wait to see what's next!