The reason you do not yet see open and proud gay youth on shows produced by Nickelodeon is because, as strange as this might sound, in our modern society, homosexuality is considered an "adult" topic, and therefore "inappropriate" for shows that are geared towards younger audiences in the United States. This was the entire rationale for Marvel Comics putting a "Mature Audiences" rating on its mini-series The Rawhide Kid several years ago--simply because their long-time Western hero the Rawhide Kid was revealed to be gay, and his dialogue was full of gay innuendo. And this despite the fact that middle and high school students, particularly girls, "coming out" as gay is all the rage these days for that age demographic; this is still considered a taboo subject for shows geared towards younger audiences to tackle in America...just like the subject of sexuality in general.

I saw one very surprising allusion to acceptance of homosexuality on an episode of my all-time fave Nickelodeon show, Zoey 101, but it was not of the type that I saw as positive despite its show of tolerance, because it suggested a form of bigotry towards people who do not have homosexual desires. It was an episode where the gang put their personal data into a computer to match them up with a date for an upcoming dance, and a glitch occurred where Chris was accidentally matched up with a male foreign student. When he protested that he was accidentally matched up with a boy (not because he was against homosexuality, but rather simply because he himself didn't swing that way), the girl in charge of the computer sifting simply brushed him off with saying, "I don't see a problem with that." I don't see a problem with a boy taking another boy to a dance, either...provided the boy was naturally gay or bisexual, and truly wanted to take another boy to the dance. But trying to impose pansexuality on people with a more narrow attraction base, or homosexual behavior on individuals who are naturally heterosexual, is very wrong IMO, and I don't care how politically incorrect it may be in some circles to say that.