MAR10 Day 2025: 5 Super Mario fan theories that prove Nintendo’s Italian daddy is an LGBTQ+ icon

In case you weren’t aware, March 10 2025 is National Super Mario Day: mainly because MAR10 looks like the name “Mario”.

To mark this very important and auspicious day in the annual gaming calendar, we decided to take a look at all of the ways Nintendo – and Mario – have championed LGBTQ+ rights over the years.

Over the past 42 years, since the release of the first Super Mario game, there have been plenty of conspiracies and fan theories. So for this Mario Day, we’re diving into the best ones.

Was Super Mario‘s Birdo the first trans video game character?

Perhaps the most well known story of LGBTQ+ representation in the Mario universe is Birdo, a pink creature with a bow. First appearing in Super Mario Bros 2 on the

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