Is SpongeBob Gay? Nickelodeon's Tweet Suggests He's Part of the LGBTQ+ Community

Jun. 14 2020, Updated 12:27 p.m. ET

Many of us grew up watching SpongeBob Squarepants — the beloved, yellow sea sponge who lived in a pineapple beneath the ocean. (Even when you didn't, you might be most likely familiar with the popular Nickelodeon sequence.) The shenanigans SpongeBob got himself into along his BFFs, Patrick Star, Sandy Cheeks, and Gary the snail (mostly while hectic Squidward) are nonetheless quote-worthy nowadays.

Although fans have lengthy suspected the often flamboyant and highly sensitive SpongeBob is a member of the LGBTQ+ group, this theory has apparently been confirmed via social media. And it is simply in time for Pride month.

Is SpongeBob Gay?

SpongeBob — who is absorbent, yellow, and porous — is additionally it appears that evidently gay and proud. Or at least that is what a tweet from Nickelodeon seems to counsel.

"Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month," the professional Nickelodeon Twitter account captioned a suite of three images on June 13. These images integrated: rainbow artwork of SpongeBob, Korra from The Legend of Korra (she's bisexual,) and Michael D. Cohen (who is transgender) from Henry Danger.⁣

Twitter used to be obsessive about SpongeBob's coming out.

Although a good amount of Twitter customers outright rejected the idea of SpongeBob being a member of the LGTBQ+ community, hoards of folks tweeted their make stronger and enthusiasm for the cartoon persona's coming out.

Some even pushed for Squidward to have his personal coming out. (He is getting his own by-product, so who knows? It may nonetheless sooner or later occur for our tentacled, grumpy, good friend.)

It has long been a idea that SpongeBob is gay.

From pretty much the beginning, lovers of SpongeBob Squarepants have wondered if/assumed the titular personality was gay. A 2002 episode called "Rock-a-Bye-Bivalve" featured SpongeBob and Patrick raising an abandoned child scallop as though they were a married couple, for instance.

On most sensible of this "evidence," fans have noted that SpongeBob does not have compatibility the mildew of conventional male characters. He's extremely delicate, isn't what is generally regarded as as "masculine," and every so often attire in historically feminine clothing.

In different phrases, information that SpongeBob is indeed a member of the LGBTQ+ wasn't such a lot stunning as it was once validating for many lovers who took notice of the "signs" all along.

The display's author in the past categorised SpongeBob "asexual."

In 2005, Stephen Hillenburg — writer of the preferred Nickelodeon sequence — answered to Christian activist teams who accused the display of the usage of SpongeBob and Patrick to promote the acceptance of homosexuality.

"It doesn't have anything to do with what we're trying to do," Stephen said at the time. "We never intended them to be gay. I consider them to be almost asexual. We're just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show."

Still, Stephen had additionally said that he understood the reasons SpongeBob might have attracted the gay community. "I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance," he said. "Everybody is different, and the show embraces that. No one is shut out."

Plenty of Twitter users have identified that even if SpongeBob is asexual and not gay, he is still considered "queer" — and he is nonetheless very much part of the LGBTQ+ community.

One person tweeted, "A lot of people are saying 'Spongebob is asexual according to Stephen Hillenburg' and I just wanna point out that would still make him queer, aces are queer, he can be a gay ace, he’s allowed to wear the rainbow too guys."

Perhaps SpongeBob wasn't to begin with supposed to be gay — but it without a doubt seems Nickelodeon is suggesting the liked caricature persona might be, in the end. Unfortunately, Stephen cannot weigh in in this new construction, as he died in 2018.

At the very least, we can now with a bit of luck say that SpongeBob Squarepants is an LGBTQ+ ally. And we'd be expecting nothing less from our favourite sponge.

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