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Divorced from its context, any one characteristic of He-Man isn’t innately gay. Many of these qualities are stereotypes, but stereotypes are the paint television has used to color queer folk for decades. If a bunch of writers and designers were creating a character who is gentle and kind while also very masculine, some inspiration may have come from the kind, gentle men they saw on the street wearing lavender arm bands and standing up for their community. However, it’s not unlikely that the design may have been influenced by cultural subtext. It would be wild to assume that some designer on the He-Man team knew about queer color coding or things like that.

Skeletor and He-Man are the loud queer uncles you hate to take to the movies.Īll of these characteristics are almost definitely not deliberate.

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Put another way, this series is two campy himbos exchanging banter and wrestling.

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Granted, this all took place on TV in the 80s, so it’s not like He-Man is going to stab Skeletor through the chest, but most of their fights are just elaborate wrestling, throwing different things at each other, or talking heatedly. He-Man’s greatest nemesis is Skeletor, but their rivalry is pretty innocent. A life wearing a harness and tussling with a growing cast of ripply-muscled men, most of whom are not exactly dressed modestly.

Again, deliberately written or not, He-Man is avoiding romantic entanglements with women because he has a terrible secret double life. This is in part because of He-Man’s duty to protect Eternia. Teela clearly has a crush, and there’s a bit of chemistry between Adam and Mara, but the romance never develops. Though He-Man and Prince Adam do have love interests, none are fully realized and reciprocation is very limited. He-Man, the gay fashion icon we never deserved. This man has just seized his sword, thrust it, stripped, and on his borderline-nude body is a harness. He-Man’s most iconic apparel is a big ol’ harness. It’s a lot of animation to just say he got much closer to nudity. Music plays, lights flash and then he’s mostly naked. In the 80s series, Adam’s transformation is just him taking clothes off. There might be a lot of symbolic interpretations of swords in literature, but ignoring the obvious is a deliberate phallacy. Adam transforms because of his relationship to his sword. He’s campy, just like every other second of this show.

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Adam has a full transformation sequence and a flare for the dramatic. The intro sequence describes He-Man’s powers as “fabulous” and “secret.” The word fabulous has been associated with LGBT folk for a while, and so has the general concept of camp and flamboyance in television. Adam wears lavender spandex, and lavender happens to be strongly associated with queer history and was even an open symbol worn to show Pride. His mother eventually learns, but she is supportive, if a little worried about the kinds of things Adam is doing and where he’s swinging his sword. Prince Adam has a secret identity he can only tell to his closest companions. To break down what makes He-Man a gay icon, we can just list some completely true features of the character. He-Man is a gay icon, and let’s look at why because this show is very, very queer. But then He-Man and the Masters of the Universe debuted, and wowzers not one second of that show was straight.

The characters that were allowed to be somewhat relatable to queer folk were, for the most part, portrayed as villains, degenerates, or that weird guy standing near the playground with a jazz cigarette. Even cartoons were rampantly heterosexual. For a long time, queer kids had virtually nothing in terms of relatable, deliberate role models on tv.