Inclusive kids shows from Disney and Netflix were among the first-ever winners of the newly launched awards known as The Velmas.

This brand-new industry recognition program (announced just last week by Chris Nee, Kristi Reed and Jeremy Blacklow’s The Rainbow Project) named its inaugural honorees today in 14 categories that celebrate different aspects of LGBTQ+ representation on-screen.

Disney Junior series Firebuds was recognized for Best Celebration of The Complex Queer Family Tree, while Best Requited Queer Crush went to Disney Channel toon Primos, in which the protagonist’s cousin finds love with a non-binary coworker. 

For one of the more unusual categories called Best Episode (Period!) That Also Never Saw the Light of Day, The Velmas honored Disney’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur for a shelved season-two episode about a trans girl trying to make it to a volleyball game while the rival coach tries to stop her. 

Netflix toons that took home awards include The Dragon Prince: Mystery of Aaravos (Best Wedding Before You and Your New Wife Go Fight Insurgents) and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory! (Best Queer Relationship That’s Just a Plain Ol’ Relationship). On the live-action side, the streamer’s coming-of-age series Heartstopper (pictured right)—which follows two schoolboys who fall in love—took the prize for Best Queer Show You Wish Existed When You Were Growing Up.

Nickelodeon’s classic IPs also won big, with the CG-animated Monster High Halloween special “The Monster Fest” scoring the win for Best Guest Star Extravaganza, while reboot show Fairly Odd Parents: A New Wish (pictured left) scored a Best New Non-Binary Cast Member prize for the addition of character Winn Harper.

Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe also earned a Legacy Award. “From the first gay wedding in children’s programming to the first GLAAD award for an animated series, Steven Universe has been representing [LGBTQ+ people] long before there was an award show to spotlight their work,” the program reads.

As revealed last week, Nee, Reed and Blacklow have implemented a unique approach for this award program (named after Velma Dinkley in the classic Scooby-Doo franchise) by determining winners through recommendations from their “extensive Rolodex of queer kids programming creators” rather than setting up a nominees list. 

While there is no ceremony planned for this inaugural batch of winners, plans are underway to scale up the program next year.

The full list of 2024 Velmas winners is available online.