Queer Duck is an adult animated series produced by Icebox.com that originally appeared on the company's website, then later moved to the American cable network Showtime, and returned to TV on Teletoon at Night, where it aired following the American version of Queer as Folk. Although far from being the first gay cartoon character, Queer Duck was the first animated series to have homosexuality as its predominant theme.

Like several later television cartoons, Queer Duck was animated in Macromedia Flash. The show was created, written, and executive-produced by Mike Reiss, who also produced network cartoons The Simpsons and The Critic. Queer Duck animation was directed and designed by Xeth Feinberg; the theme song was performed by drag celebrity RuPaul.

Scholar Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes called the use of the term queer duck as "interesting" and described the show as about a "group of American gay animals" with their personalities seemingly "based on gay white men."