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Nickelodeon celebrates pride month by outing SpongeBob SquarePants as gay

Nickelodeon welcomed the start of 'Pride Month', an annual occasion celebrated by the LGBTQ community in the month of June, by hinting that popular kid's cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is a member of the LGBTQ community. The official Twitter handle of Nickelodeon shared a post and wrote: "Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month”.

Stephen Hillenburg, the man who created SpongeBob in 1999, had revealed back in 2005 that Spongebob was a member of the LGBTQ+ community by being asexual, not gay.