A brand new animated sequence starring beloved kidlit characters “Frog and Toad” is headed to Apple TV+, premiering Friday, April 28. Them is reporting that “homosexual Twitter” is lauding the variation of Arnold Lobel’s Caldecott and Newbery Award-winning youngsters’s guide for its “queer subtext,” calling the amphibious roommates “one of many web’s favourite queer relationships.” (through Deadline)

Even the official description from Apple TV+ performs into that subtext:

Frog is a frog. Toad is a toad. They’ve lots in widespread… however they’re additionally very totally different. Frog and Toad are finest associates who know that the true secret to friendship is just not solely having fun with the issues you’ve in widespread, however embracing the issues that make you totally different. Our variations are what makes us particular, and Frog and Toad have fun them in what makes them distinctive. 

Are they a homosexual couple? In 2016, The New Yorker investigated:

Frog and Toad are “of the identical intercourse, and so they love one another,” she advised me. “It was fairly forward of its time in that respect.” In 1974, 4 years after the primary guide within the sequence was printed, Lobel got here out to his household as homosexual. “I believe ‘Frog and Toad’ actually was the start of him popping out,” [Arnold’s daughter] Adrianne [Lobel] advised me.