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[[File:Alizarin_Bubblegum_and_Celery_Stalk.png|thumb|400px|[[Alizarin Bubblegum]] and [[Celery Stalk]], a female and male respectively]]
'''Gender''' is a complicated topic that can't be summed up on an article on a ''[[My Little Pony]]'' wiki. In the franchise, most characters can be confidently labeled as males or females, including many individuals who are not biological entities, such as robots or spirits, as they often identify as one or the other. Many events and organizations are heavily gendered.
For the most part, all biological life-forms in the known [[multiverse]] seem to fall into two sexes, '''males''' and '''females''' respectively, though artificial life forms such as [[Robot]]s do not seem to factor into these categories. Although a purely biological concept, the idea of ones sex and gender carries on into the [[afterlife]], with [[ghost]] obviously carrying their gender identities.
 
==''My Little Pony'' and gender==
==Homosexuality==
As horses have traditionally been associated with girls, ''My Little Pony'' too quickly became marketed towards girls in the [[1980s]]. Despite this, the creator of the franchise, [[Bonnie Zacherle]] intended the original [[My Pretty Pony]] toy to appear to boys as well,<ref>''[[The Toys That Made Us]]''</ref> a sentiment followed up by [[Lauren Faust]], show runner of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]''.<ref>''[[My Little Pony Adventures]]''</ref> Despite this, branding for the toyline was unambiguously feminine until [[2016]], when the current logo of the brand was changed from a girlish pink to a neutral blue.{{confirm}}
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While rare, romance between same-sex couples have been documented in the land of [[Equestria]]. The most prominent example of this was probably with {{FIM|Aunt Holiday}} and {{FIM|Aunt Lofty}}, an open and proud same sex couple, though whether or not they were married or long tme girlfriends was never brought up. Another major example was {{FIM|Lyra Heartstrings}} and {{FIM|Bon Bon}}, who proposed to each other during "[[The Big Mac Question]]" and got married a little before [[Twilight Sparkle's last coronation|Twilight's coronation]] during "[[The Last Problem]]".
 
Male characters in the franchise was relatively barren until ''Friendship is Magic'' diversified the cast. The only recurring males in ''[[My Little Pony (TV series)|My Little Pony]]'' were {{MLP|Spike}}, {{MLP|Danny Williams}} and [[The Moochick]] though, many episodes had one-off males, typically as princes, kings or knights. Most antongists of the show were males, but numerous heroic (or mostly heroic) males would also appear, most notably [[Alonzo]], [[Garth]] and [[Prince Philip|Philip]]. Stallions were even rarer, with most stallions being '[[Big Brother Ponies]]' and thus were often not around, though the odd non-brother stallion would sometimes show up, such as [[Knight Shade]].
The character [[Sappho]], if going by artwork by her creator, was most likely a lesbian, or at the very least, bisexual and had a crush on {{FIM|Rarity}}.
 
[[Wiz Kid]] and [[Curly Winds]] are generally believed to be a same-sex couple too, given the amount of seemingly romantic interactions between him.
 
{{EQG|Sunset Shimmer}} was confirmed to be bisexual, and in older drafts of ''[[Equestria Girls: Rollercoaster of Friendship]]'', {{EQG|Applejack}} and {{EQG|Rarity}} were to reveal their romantic feelings for one another, which was later poked fun at with the introduction of the characters [[Ragamuffin]] and [[Dirk Thistleweed]], who resembled Applejack and Rarity respectively and served as pseudo-love interests for Rarity and Applejack respectively.
 
According to [[Big Jim]], it was left up to the individual viewers to decide whether or not {{FIM|Rainbow Dash}} and {{FIM|Applejack}} got together during "The Last Problem".
 
==See also==
* [[LGBTQ+ themes in My Little Pony]]
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