He-Man was my hero as a child. You mean to tell me he… no, he couldn’t be! Not He-Man!
Well, now that you mention it … I can see it.
Anyone remember Danger Mouse? I always thought his little sidekick Penfold was gay. Then again, it was the '80s and I hadn’t even hit puberty yet, so I had little-to-no idea what “gay” was.
-Dirty
tutu
Anyway, from the first Big Gay Al episode… Sparky the gay dog! They actually showed GAY DOG SEx, after all.
Next to Warner Bros “The Goofy Gophers,” Chip ‘N’ Dale were mega butch war heroes.
[sub]After you. No, I insist, after you.[/sub]
Bluto/Brutus from Popeye. Massive overcompensation highlighted in a continous series of epic homoerotic battles in an attempt to bed a women who’s body is that of a boy.
…but, wouldn’t that make Popeye gay , too?
You didn’t hear it from me…
Not old Huck, but what was the name of that lion with him, the one that spoke in a sort of English upper-class accent, now HE was gay!
Three words: Huey, Dewie, and Louie.
I thought Donald’s nephews digged Daisy’s nieces, or at least Rosie, the maid’s granddaughter…
Simon from Alvin and the Chipmunks had his love interest in the nerdy gal from the Chippetes or whatever it’s name is female band.
Wasn’t the granddaughter’s name “Webby”? It’s sad that I remember that.
I don’t know the name of the character (he might not even have a name), but one of the waiters at Al’s cafe on Reboot hit on Bob.
Definitely add Dr. Quest and Race Bannon to the list. I can’t be the only one who saw that episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. 
I once saw an episode of The Flintstones with the following dialogue. (I swear I’m not making this up.)
(Background: Fred and Barney are involved in some hare-brained scheme. They have to figure out how to get out of the situation without their “wives” finding out.)
Fred: C’mon Barney, give me an idea. Two heads are better than one.
Barney: But Fred, I already have two heads.
That alone gives Barney my vote.
Fred Flintstone may have had Homosexual tendencies… as well as Super Mario, or at least Mario had cross gender “tendencies”.
Flinstone seems pretty hetero. The Great Gazoo, was gay! Only Fred could see him, I think that was Fred’s Homosexual side, only Fred saw him, so you would think it’s a certain part of his psyche emerging. But that doesn’t explain the wished he granted…
In Super Mario Bros. 2, there was a character named “Birdo”. If you had the original Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game, you would read in the booklet that Birdo was a boy, who wished to be a girl. Other versions of the game don’t go near this idea with a 10 foot poll. I think it was just too “risqué” for a Nintendo character concept. But if you Finnish the game, you find out that the whole adventure was a dream of a slumbering Mario. This means that Mario dreamed this character up himself, thus having a side of him we rarely see.
Pete the Puma. I always suspected Mr “Give me a lotta lumps, a whooole lotta lumps” was also a bit of a BDSM devoté.
Never would have expected Fred Fintstone or Super Mario.
sigh
So many closet cases. Is the cartoon world really so oppressive, still?
Anyone winning the title “gayest cartoon character” ought to be out. That should narrow our list considerably.
Speed Racer
How about Aeon Flux?
I seem to remember an episode on Mtv’s Liquid Television with Aeon making hot lesbian love with her clone.
Super Mario Bros. 2 (the U.S. version) wasn’t the true sequel to Super Mario Bros.–it was a remake of a Japanese game called “Doki Doki Panic.” The two games had the same enemies, levels, etc.; the only difference was that Mario and friends were used as the main characters (which were all males in Doki Doki Panic, I think).
But I do think that Bowser has a thing for Mario. He keeps nabbing the Princess, but never once tries to get it on with her–he just uses her to lure Mario over to his castle.