Reggie Abbott, the protagonist of Twelve Forever, has a crush on Conelly, a 13-year-old schoolmate with whom she shares the same taste in imagining and creating stories, as shown in the two-part episode, 'Locked Out Forever.' Due to the show's abrupt ending, Shadi Petosky, one of the executive producers, stated they won't be able to further explore that aspect of the character/relationship. Elsewhere, Petosky described Reggie as a queer character 'coming to terms with her sexuality'. the Machines, an animated film, premiered in Netflix in April 2021.
The voice actor for one of the film's protagonists, Abbi Jacobson, has stated that Katie is 'queer'. In the film, Katie wears a rainbow pride flag pin and talks about it taking a while to figure herself out, and at the end of the film, she has a girlfriend at film school in Los Angeles named Jade.
