Arthur, Mr. Ratburn, and Animated LGBTQ Marriages

Priya Sridhar
6 min readJul 13, 2019

Reader, Nigel Ratburn on the show Arthur married his sweetheart, a chocolatier named Patrick. What’s more, he and Patrick end the episode dancing together in pure bliss. They are together. As Francine Frensky says, “It’s a new world.”

I saw the episode. At least, I saw bits and pieces of it. Then I shook my head with a bit of joy. But the animation. Oh God, the animation.

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Priya Sridhar

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting.