'Arthur' character Mr. Ratburn out as gay, gets married season premiere

Contents:

• 'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE
• HOW THE CLASSIC S ‘MARRIED WH CHILDREN’ TOOK ON GAY MARRIAGE A SURPRISGLY SENSIVE WAY: WATCH
• 'ARTHUR' CREATOR DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE EPISO FOLLOWG BACKLASH
• ARTHUR: ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN BANS GAY WEDDG EPISO
• MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG
• ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR 'ARTHUR' EPISO WH GAY WEDDG
• “IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’S” ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS ABOUT UPG “GAY MARRIAGE” EPISO
• MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY WEDDGS

'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE

In March, ahead of Morn Fay's seri fale, Jse Tyler Fergon reflected on the legacy of the groundbreakg ABC s, which followed the liv of the Prchett fay, cludg gay uple Mchell and Cameron (Fergon and Eric Stontreet).

There, Mch was walked down the aisle by his father, Jay -- after overg his own homophobia about the uple's marriage -- as his brother--law, Phil, prid over the ceremony.

HOW THE CLASSIC S ‘MARRIED WH CHILDREN’ TOOK ON GAY MARRIAGE A SURPRISGLY SENSIVE WAY: WATCH

S., “The Weddg” episo, if nothg else, ptur a moment time, when the natn me together behd their favore gay TV uple and the LGBTQ muny alike.

'ARTHUR' CREATOR DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE EPISO FOLLOWG BACKLASH

“MR RATBURN IS GAY?? Your move Marvel…, ” wrote Rachel Gie, the director of edorial at is not the first time the “Arthur” seri has featured a gay character. ” The anizatn c “Steven Universe, ” “Adventure Time” and “Loud Hoe” as some recent exampl of programmg that featur nuanced LGBTQ, featurg a gay marriage on a children’s televisn show remas revolutnary, acrdg to year, the s-old discsn over Bert and Ernie’s relatnship and sexual orientatn “Same Street” me to a standstill after Frank Oz, the creator of Bert, nied the character was gay.

I know what and who he is, " Oz wrote on Mark Saltzman, a former wrer for “Same Street, ” mataed that the puppets were gay.

ARTHUR: ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN BANS GAY WEDDG EPISO

“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said an terview wh Queerty. In a new episo of Cultural Cisg, Matt Bme exam the classic s Married Wh Children which took on gay marriage an episo that aired October 1990, a ltle more than three years to s -long n. And even more surprisgly, went so far as to air an episo featurg two married gay men, jt two months before a real-life lawsu kicked off the morn marriage equaly movement.

MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG

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We all know people who are gay, who are trans, and ’s somethg that is socially acceptable, ” Brown said. “In an effort to ay s tattered image light of s horrific and blatantly unnstutnal new abortn law, Alabama has cid to rectify the suatn by also banng the new gay marriage episo of Arthur on public televisn. "I never thought I'd be gog to battle for a gay rat weddg, but here we are, " she said.

ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR 'ARTHUR' EPISO WH GAY WEDDG

In what is, at the most, a major moment televisn history and, at the very least, a quiet step forward for the marriage equaly movement, TV’s most award and send most-watched edy seri aired a gay the bate over the legalizatn of gay marriage makg headl on a daily basis, ’s hard not to read to the fact that 10. ” Ever sce Morn Fay accintally beme televisn’s go-to polil lightng rod, the show’s gay uple and the ton they’ve passed together on screen have llaterally bee bean’s of progrs when to what uld broadly be referred to as “acceptance” by the public at might argue that what two televisn characters do on a s should hardly be nsted as “important, ” but as we’ve long learned, polics and pop culture are often extribly tertwed.

Now, ’s apparently OK for two guys to share that bed, ’s impossible to quantify how many words have been voted to the progrs—or, some opn, the lack thereof—when to pictg gay characters on mastream TV.

There are some who reject the ia that Mch and Cam, two characters who are broadly drawn and arguably perpetuate margalizg stereotyp of gay-ish character tras, are the unwtg poster gays for the equal-rights movement, at least some of the more uniated segments of the one thg that’s never been broadly drawn when to Mch and Cam, and much of this is owed to the warm chemistry between stars Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet, is their love. ”From the time that Morn Fay’s brilliant pilot buted and Cam was thstg newly adopted Lily to the air while “Circle of Life” om The Ln Kg played the background—a geni moment one of the most perfect pilots om the last 10 years—Mch and Cam and their gayns were also thst forward, their every actn and even their mere existence, on a mastream seri stantly embraced by crics and viewers alike, was a gay love story that we actually jo the middle.

“IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’S” ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS ABOUT UPG “GAY MARRIAGE” EPISO

There were no plots, as there ually are on work TV when gay characters are volved, about g to terms wh their own sexuali, g out of the closet, or nvcg their fai to love them.

It was the polil maniftatn of a Sefeld joke, reassurg voters that they don’t hate the gay muny—a verable “not that there’s anythg wrong wh that…”Then me the clamorg for what people wanted Mch and Cam to reprent, more than what they maybe actually did. And that was, neglectg the fact that they were s characters, a “real” gay uple.

And, fally, the petn to have them fally make legal (you know, once California, where the show tak place, ma so a legal gay marriage was actually possible) other words, this was a very special episo of the show, and a landmark episo of televisn, general.

MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE

”)There was also the edy of errors stemmg om the mismunitn between Mch and his father, Jay, who he thks isn’t on board wh the ia of the gay weddg but, of urse, uldn’t be more proud. Jay, a b obtely standg for the ntgent of Amerins who happily endorse gay marriage but don’t know the rrect or acceptable terms for discsg , keeps parg Mch and Cam’s ceremony to a “regular weddg.

GAY WEDDGS

When the two men actually said “I do, ” the only thg borrg on a natural disaster was the flood of tears by the guts ’ve seen gay upl get married on TV before. Durg a ssn at the TV Crics Associatn Summer Prs Tour this week, McElhenney mentned that the first two episos of the new season next month would be about a “gay marriage.

I disvered that the episos are about a lot more than gay marriage! “And my character cis that he is gog to fight their unn urt bee he feels ’s a gay marriage but really, jt like always is wh our characters, Pl don’t really re about the polil ramifitns of and is jt jealo that she chose another guy over him.