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 BERT AND ERNIE ULD BE ROLE MOLS FOR ALL THE GAY PUPPETS
• THE GAY PUPPET STARS OF OR YOU COULD KISS ME
• SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’
• 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
• ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?
• NEW ‘SAME STREET’ EPISO TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS
• THE GAY PUPPET STARS OF OR YOU COULD KISS ME
• HOW BERT AND ERNIE ULD BE ROLE MOLS FOR ALL THE GAY PUPPETS

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

Gay ventriloquist Wayland Flowers brought his inic puppet, Madame, to life throughout the ’70s and ’80s.

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

Related: Gay dads who adopted 6 siblgs celebrate three years as one big happy fay. 'Same Street' troduc fay wh two gay dads.

THE GAY PUPPET STARS OF OR YOU COULD KISS ME

The episo featured a fay wh two gay dads.

SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’

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. 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.

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

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".

BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, SAME STREET WRER SAYS

Same Street was not the only kids’ show that voiced a msage of support for the LGBT activist–backed “Pri Month, ” which promot the homosexual liftyle and genr-fluidy. For a long time, LGBTQ activists and punds have sisted tha the two puppet characters are a “gay uple. Bert and Ernie “gay” mors were addrsed 2018 when Same Street Workshop, as well as Muppet creator Frank Oz, nied that Bert and Ernie are “gay.

She was asked if Bert and Ernie are a “mted gay uple. “You want to thk they’re gay? DROP Disney+: New teen film 'Out' featur openly homosexual ma character!

The Twter hashtag #Spongebobisgay began to trend on Twter after many on social media speculated that SpongeBob SquarePants is ed “gay” for beg clud the June 13 Nickeloon tweet. However, the creator of SpongeBob, Stephen Hillenberg, who died 2018, said 2005 that he “never tend” the Spongebob character and his sikick iend Patrick Starfish to be “gay.

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?

“We never tend them to be gay. 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!

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.

NEW ‘SAME STREET’ EPISO TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS

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

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.

THE GAY PUPPET STARS OF OR YOU COULD KISS ME

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 phemism for a gay man).

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

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-.