Frog and toad gay icons

In the second video, a little green yarn frog with big wet eyes plays in the background while fiber artist India Rose Crawford lovingly makes his clothes. The Frog and Toad book series written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel was one of the major reasons that I fell in love with reading. As a child, I speedily advanced through small-print chapter books like Percy Jackson and The Chronicles of Narnia. But in the end, I always came back to these books for easy readers about two amphibian friends, flying kites and growing gardens in the woods, among other wholesome adventures.

Generations of queer individuals who grew up reading Arnold Lobel's children's books have come to a sudden realization as to why Frog and Toad's adventures made so much of a personal impact. Judy Garland. Dianna Ross. Lady Gaga.

Yet despite their differences, Frog and Toad are always there for each other — as best friends should be." The beloved Caldecott- and Newbery Award-winning books have inspired wholesome memes and fan art over the years, many of which celebrate the ectothermic besties as radical LGBTQ+ icons. According to Deadline , actors Nat Faxon Disenchantment and Kevin Michael Richardson The Simpsons will voice Frog and Toad, respectively. Toad is a toad. They have a lot in common… but they are also very different.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that characters from classic children’s stories have been claimed as gay icons: Just look at Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street. But in the case of Frog and Toad, there’s some real weight behind fans’ queer amphibian reading. On a cool autumn day, a frog and a toad awake in their separate houses to find that their yards are filled with fallen leaves. But, unbeknown to either of them, after the raking is done and as they are walking back to their respective homes, a wind comes and undoes all of their hard work, leaving their yards as leaf-strewn as they were at the beginning. But Frog and Toad both feel satisfied believing that they have done the other a good turn.