The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me | Theatre | The Guardian

Contents:

• SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
• HOW GAY ARE THE MUPPETS?
• JAWS IS HERE — I LOVE THE GAY PUPPETS
• A GAY HISTORY OF THE MUPPETS
• THIS GAY PUPPETEER HELPED PUT 'THE MUPPET SHOW' ON THE MAP AND CHANGED TV FOREVER
• THE GAY PUPPET STARS OF OR YOU COULD KISS ME
• THE GAY PUPPET
• DIB/ROCKY — I LOVE THE GAY PUPPETS GRAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGH
• GAY PUPPET
• HOW BERT AND ERNIE ULD BE ROLE MOLS FOR ALL THE GAY PUPPETS
• WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
• BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, SAME STREET WRER SAYS

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

'Same Street' troduc fay wh two gay dads.

HOW GAY ARE THE MUPPETS?

The episo featured a fay wh two gay dads. In the 1970s, he was one of the most famo gay men the world … whose face nobody regnized. At the same time, Richard was enjoyg gay New York of the 1970s, which was an credible time and place.

The documentary Gay Sex the '70s ptur jt a taste of the post-Stonewall life, where ee love had created an environment far ls hibed than prev s. Gay ventriloquist Wayland Flowers brought his inic puppet, Madame, to life throughout the ’70s and ’80s. Related: Gay dads who adopted 6 siblgs celebrate three years as one big happy fay.

The New Yorker ver, njunctn wh the two historic SCOTUS gay rights lgs of 2013 referenced the mor of Bert and Ernie's relatnship.

JAWS IS HERE — I LOVE THE GAY PUPPETS

LGBT culture scrib the social paradigm by which lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) dividuals sometim intify. Celebrated morn culture as "LGBT pri" (sometim abbreviated simply as "pri") is the celebratn and promotn of the self-affirmatn, digny, equaly, and creased visibily of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people as a social group. Rudy acknowledg a picture of a male, homosexual uple, by untg the two daddi the photo.

Miss Piggy's "snout-out to the gays" Out. Miss Piggy gave a "snout-out to the gays" the November 2011 issue of Out, a popular gay and lbian liftyle magaze; Piggy shared ten very brief, personal not on her nnectn wh the gay muny. Miss Piggy also appeared as a gut at a fundraisg event December 2011 for The Trevor Project, a non-prof anizatn, foced on suici preventn efforts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng (LGBTQ) youth.

Piggy, herself beg a drag performance, has been lled a gay in; the pig mented on the fact a 2014 terview statg: "I love beg anybody's in.

A GAY HISTORY OF THE MUPPETS

" (a phemism for a gay man). In the Muppets Now episo "Due Date, " openly gay drag queen RuPl gut stars, and is referred to wh both he/him and genrntral they/them pronouns by the characters throughout their segment together. On October 8, 2021, promotn of Muppets Hnted Mansn, Miss Piggy was terviewed for LGBTQ+ outlet Queerty, talkg about Kerm and Piggy dog drag the film, her huge gay followg, and potential body image issu.

In 1986, Jim Henson was asked by reporter Alan Neff if any of the Muppets were gay. The Dosrs episo "I Never Ate for My Father" serv up an allegory for homosexualy, among other societal issu, when Robbie Sclair tri to keep his very unorthodox vegetarianism a secret om his fay, even sneakg off to a unterculture salad bar, a gay bar stand-.

THIS GAY PUPPETEER HELPED PUT 'THE MUPPET SHOW' ON THE MAP AND CHANGED TV FOREVER

Productns wh the Jim Henson Company's Henson Alternative brand have often explored adult them, sexual relatnships, and featured homosexualy. And Stuffed and Unstng have featured gay jok and characters.

THE GAY PUPPET STARS OF OR YOU COULD KISS ME

Have featured referenc to homosexualy, cludg -pth discsns of gay marriage episo 102 (YouTube) and episo 318 (YouTube).

See also: Are Ernie and Bert gay? Publicy for the "We Are Fay" vio featurg the Muppets was largely hijacked by nservative groups, sayg the project was a vehicle for "pro-gay propaganda. The Tradnal Valu Coaln stated would "be another propaganda tool to normalize homosexualy our culture.

"[30] The mors were misguid, wh Same Workshop havg no plans to troduce an HIV-posive character on the Amerin show, nor havg any plans to troduce a homosexual character. In 2012, due to ntroversi surroundg the fast food cha's posns on gay rights issu, the Jim Henson Company ceased a promotnal partnership wh Chick-fil-A.

THE GAY PUPPET

Lisa Henson, our CEO is personally a strong supporter of gay marriage and has directed to donate the payment we received om Chick-Fil-A to GLAAD. A rather gay Same Street on The Simpsons. " The lyrics have been terpreted as a reference to supportg gay relatnships; Brooks won a 1993 GLAAD Media Award for the song.

Brooks, a supporter of gay rights, also performed the song at Equaly Rocks, a gay rights march Washgton, D. Jsi Max Ste wrote The Rabow Connectn: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer, a ze celebratg Richard Hunt's life and reer.

DIB/ROCKY — I LOVE THE GAY PUPPETS GRAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGH

Frank Oz directed the 1997 film In & Out; the film was one of mastream Hollywood's first attempts at a edic "gay movie" and was wily noted at the time for a 10-send kiss between Kev Kle and Tom Selleck.

The program actually shows a gay bar, plete wh men remblg Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, and Osr the Grouch. Are Ernie and Bert gay? Are Bunsen and Beaker gay?

Sce Hunt’s face never appeared on mera, he beme “one of the most famo gay men the world who nobody regnized, ” acrdg to Bme. The rollout for 2011’s “The Muppets, ” starrg Jason Segel and Amy Adams, clud a feature Out magaze about Miss Piggy’s “place the gay pantheon.

GAY PUPPET

” Earlier this year, “Same Street” troduced a gay uple and their dghter a special “Fay Day” episo. Handsprg are workg on wh thor, playwright and director Neil Bartlett, whose script follows a gay uple through a lifelong relatnship.

"He didn't talk about the obv spectacle of , but the silence of the puppetry, " says also disvered a shared history of gay activism: Bartlett had mpaigned agast Sectn 28, which banned lol thori Bra om "promotg homosexualy"; Kohler and Jon had joed the first Ain Gay Pri march, Johannburg 1990 (an experience they scribe as "very dicey"). "We wanted to al wh gay realy, but for that to be part of the texture rather than the subject. " What Or You Could Kiss Me looks at, says Kohler, is "the untold story gay liv – of people who have stayed together their whole liv".

Gay Puppet Show. i want to have sex wh gay men for Mistrs Saras prof and enjoyment. I am a novice at gay sex but know i like bottomg as well as givg oral.

HOW BERT AND ERNIE ULD BE ROLE MOLS FOR ALL THE GAY PUPPETS

pleasg Mistrs Sara, learng to be a gay puppet, BBC, learng be a gay whore for Mistrs Saras prof. Firtone (Jenny Hann), K and Quick (Maggie Gayford) and Happy (Kayla Prtel) perform Packrat by Concrete Temple at the Natnal Puppetry Ftival Prce Gee’s County, Maryland. But followg Mark Salzman’s claim that he wrote Bert and Ernie as gay, Same Street workshop issued a swift joykill of a statement, nyg this was the se and thstg the lovg muppets firmly to the back of the closet.

WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE

Gay fave Spongebob Squarepants always seemed to have a lot more affectn for Patrick than he did that weird unrwater squirrel.

And if you want to go ls ambiguo, see lerally any man om He-Man, cludg Bow om She-Ra: the steroids, the motach, the fur hotpants, the harns: ’s basilly a night out at a leather fally, my all-time favoure gay puppet: the ltle blue worm om Labyrth. Plenty of Muppets are romantic relatnships, so who r if a uple of obvly gay puppets are gay? Sce began airg 2013, Steven Universe has featured multiple queer characters and relatnships, cludg a gay weddg (wh a kiss!

BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, SAME STREET WRER SAYS

But not all creators have had the wherewhal or the abily to do that, and the stori behd Adventure Time and Legend of Korra’s now-inic gay moments are of siarly uphill battl wh varyg his “Korrasami is non” post, Korra -creator Bryan Konietzko said Nickeloon had put “lims” on how much of Korra and Asami’s buddg romance was allowed to be picted on screen. No, thank that so many people’s mds — some of whom sisted that they were no way homophobic, and how dare anyone imply otherwise — immediately went there pats a pretty damng picture of society’s wispread abily to see queerns as anythg other than vulgar and sexual. And their stubborn nial of Bert and Ernie’s upledom spe so many other straight Muppet upl existg, Same Workshop played to exactly the prejudic that Rebec Sugar and other creators like her have worked so hard to subvert: that queer characters don’t belong stori told to pats a damng picture of society’s wispread abily to see queerns as anythg other than vulgar and sexualThe qutn of whether Bert and Ernie “are” actually gay is kd of a different one, but ’s worth addrsg.

Bee if you ignore the fact that blatantly exists to rerce heteronormativy a children’s show, yeah, I gus Same Workshop’s statement uld be terpreted as jt clearg up the Same Street as Saltzman clarified an terview wh the New York Tim today that was fely not done unr prsure om Same Workshop, he never actually said Bert and Ernie were gay. ” The distctn is small, but matters, not least of all bee leav room for plsible niabily on the part of Same Workshop and other, ls forward-thkg members of the team behd Same Street’s inilly gay puppets. But ’s a cisn supported by homophobia and outdated, rrect views about queerns, which are the only reasons that Bert and Ernie shouldn’t jo the pantheon of officially sanctned Same Street Muppet upl—right next to Osr and beg said, there’s another si to the subjective nature of Saltzman’s refully word terview, and works favor of Same Street’s more progrsive dience, rather than those who would mimize Bert and Ernie’s queerns: Regardls of how and why Bert and Ernie were created, thanks to Saltzman, we now know that for 15 years they were specifilly wrten to be a gay uple, moled after one man’s relatnship wh the love of his life.

"I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert and Ernie, they were (gay), " Mark Saltzman, who worked for the prchooler program for 15 years, told Queerty an terview.