Danger & Eggs, which aired on Amazon Prime in 2017, sounds relatively mundane, a cartoon about the danger-loving D.D. and her bff, a giant egg named Philip. But it holds the record as the first children's cartoon created by a transgender person. D.D. is actually "a gender-free female lesbian child," and there are characters who are featuring characters who are transgender (Zadie), non-binary (Milo), and lesbian (Reina). No gay boys, but according to wikipedia, Corporate Raider Jim has two dads, so I watched the episode he is featured in, "Chill Twins."
Scene 1: D.D. and Philip in an old cabin, playing hillbillies. Evil Corporate Guy -- Jim? -- announces that he's going to tear down their cabin and build a parking lot, which will somehow make him a lot of money. They declare that it's a historic landmark, so its fate has to be put to a community vote.
Scene 2: D.D. and Philip try to pass out petitions, but people aren't interested. For instance, Rad and Sweet, boy-girl yoga teachers, "don't do politics -- too intense. Better to be chill." Aha, they are the Chill Twins!
Eavesdropping, Corporate Jim gets an idea: Get people to "be chill," so they won't vote, and the cabin can be demolished.
Scene 3: They try coalition building, getting the support of an existing special interest group. In this case, some people eating snow cones, who turn out to belong to Rad and Sweet's "Be Chill" movement. Trying to get people to care is hard work, so D.D. takes a snow cone break, gets lured into the movement, and abandons the cause. Uh-oh, trapped by the Lotus Eaters! But Philip makes a rousing speech.
Scene 4: Corporate Jim with a wrecking ball at the cabin. Philip arrives, and discovers that he provided the snowcones as a distraction: "As long as people are chill, I can do whatever I want." Wait -- how about a debate?
Corporate Jim: "I'm rich and powerful, so do what I say"
Philip: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
Corporate Jim: "I'm not evil. I get things done."
Philip: "This house has 100 years worth of memories."
A crowd arrives, having overcome the soporific effect of the snow cones by remembering good times at the cabin. They all vote to make it a historic landmark. Moral: Politics can be personal.
Ok, the two dads don't appear or get referenced. Nothing there except a call for political activism. Let's try creator Shadi Petovski's favorite episode, "Trading Post"
Scene 1: D.D. and Philip in the park, playing a complex ball game. They lose their flying disk, but have no money to buy a new one. A boy suggests that they visit The Trading Post, an underground facility that has anything you might want. And you don't need money -- it's all barter!
Scene 2: They take the subway to the end of the line, then go through a secret door to the vast Trading Post. Philip feels anxiety about the "subjective values" and haggling, but D.D. is excited. They trade pocket lint for a cheese sandwich, and so on, until they have a turtle.
Scene 3: But that's not enough for to get a new disk. The disk guy wants the only action figure missing from his collection, the Hugging Astronaut, which no one has ever successfully bartered for. D.D. accepts the challenge, and trades until she has a wheelbarrow full of stuff. Philip is not happy with her new competitive spirit: "A new disk isn't worth becoming a monster."
Scene 4: A crowd is trying to trade with the girl who has the Hugging Astronaut: Mickey Mantle's Mantle, fossilized lips, first edition Dungeons & Dragons, a jar of dog dreams. They all fail. D.D. tries, but nothing works. The girl will only trade for "a secret about your best friend." Gulp!
D.D. complies: "He has a crack in his shell that he got when he was little. That's why he's afraid of everything." She gets the Hugging Astronaut, but Philip is mortified. Especially when word about his crack gets out.
Scene 5: Philip walks through the Trading Post as kids point and stare. By the time D.D. returns with the new flyng disk, he has collapsed from humiliation. D.D. apologizes: "I screwed up. You deserve a better friend." So she trades for a better friend, Gale.
But Philip is miserable without D.D. He wants to forgive her for the betrayal, but he doesn't know how. Gale: "You can't stop things from hurting you, but you can decide what to do with that hurt."
Scene 6: Back to the trading post. It's against the rules to "trade back," but Philip finds a loophole: "Friendships are based on feelings, and no one can own other people's feelings."
Nothing here except some heavy-handed moralizing. For a show about a danger-loving girl, not much danger. But the visuals are creative, and at least there's no heterosexism.
Ok, I'm going to watch Episode #13, about a Pride Festival. Maybe at the very end, they'll have some overt LGBTQ inclusivity.