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The Owl House features 14-year-old girl named Luz dancing with a girl who has a crush on her at prom

  • The Owl House creator Dana Terrace confirmed lead character Luz Noceda, a 14-year-old girl, is bisexual
  • Luz had previously been shown as being attracted to male characters
  • A recent storyline explored Luz’s relationship with another female character 
  • Terrace said Disney executives had initially told her not to include LGBTQ characters in the series, but she fought to keep them in 

Maxine Shen – Daily Mail Aug 16, 2020

Disney now has its first ever bisexual lead character, thanks to The Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.

Following the debut of a recent episode in the series, show creator Dana Terrace revealed on Twitter that the series’ lead character, Luz Noceda – a Dominican-American girl – is definitely bisexual.

The Owl House, which premiered in January, centers around 14-year-old Luz who finds a portal to a fantasy world and attempts to fulfill her dream of becoming a witch while attending school there.

The Owl House creator Dana Terrace revealed that main character Luz Noceda (right) is bisexual after a recent storyline explored Luz’s relationship with female student Amity (left). Click to enlarge

Previously, Luz was shown as being attracted to male characters, but in the recently aired episode ‘Enchanting Grom Fright,’ the series started to explore a relationship between Luz and Amity Blight, a female student at the school.

In the episode, Amity says she has feelings for Luz and wanted to ask her to go to Grom, a prom-like event. While there, the two dance together.

In her tweets, Terrace confirmed that Luz is bisexual and said that she had fought with ‘certain Disney leadership’ to ensure ‘queer kids’ were in the main cast of her show.

Terrace, 29, first noted that she made ‘a prom episode to make up for my own experiences. Back then PROM was an anagram for “Perennial Ritual Offering Maiden”.’

Dana Terrace

She then went on to tweet that during development of the series, ‘I was very open about my intention to put queer kids in the main cast. I’m a horrible liar so sneaking it in would’ve been hard haha,’ she tweeted.

‘When we were greenlit I was told by certain Disney leadership that I could NOT represent any form of bi or gay relationship on the Channel.’

Terrace refused to back down from her desire to represent LGBTQ characters on the show, however.

‘I’m bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit! Luckily my stubbornness paid off and now I am VERY supported by current Disney leadership,’ she wrote, thanking her crew and specifically name-checking Doug Bensimon, director, current series at Disney Television Animation.

‘Representation matters! Always fight to make what YOU want to see!’ Terrace wrote.

 

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