Contents:
- THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN
- THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
- THE GUY WHO PLAYED TKY WKY, THE ‘GAY’ PURPLE TELETUBBY, HAS DIED
THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN
The time was ripe for a homophobic Teletubby nspiracy. That antenna stuck on s head was shaped a triangle – a gay pri symbol. Falwell had ma a name for himself as an anti-gay csar: he preached that AIDS was God’s punishment for society’s tilt towards tolerance, and said thgs like “gay folks would jt as soon as kill you as look at you” (they’re all like Cyclops om X-Men, yeah?
Oh and he would also go on to blame 9/11 on homosexuals “and the pagans, and the abortnists, and the femists”. “He’s not gay. Wh an irony that now looks as evable as do sweet, progrsiv took his nmnatn as a cue and embraced TW as a gay in.
“And at an Afterwords fe a gay area of the natn’s pal, you n eat ‘Tky Wky Ravli’, ” wrote the Dallas Morng News.
THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
Tky Wky Is Defely A Gay In. Today, is Tky Wky still a gay in? On gay and straight channels alike, too.
If a producer announc a character is gay when this is never explic the ntent, do make so?
THE GUY WHO PLAYED TKY WKY, THE ‘GAY’ PURPLE TELETUBBY, HAS DIED
Even if Tky Wky did openly and explicly intify as gay, this don’t mean the character is fistg Dipsy Wipsy behd a grassy knoll. The thg is this though: even if Tky Wky did openly and explicly intify as gay, this don’t mean the character is fistg Dipsy Wipsy behd a grassy knoll. The ‘TW is a gay propaganda symbol’ bate still hasn’t settled down entirely, eher.
“Poland to probe whether Teletubbi are gay” ran the headl. When to pearl-clutchg gay sndals volvg children's TV characters, the story of the Teletubbi — particularly of the handbag-holdg Tky Wky — is right up there wh that of Bert and now looks like the seri is embracg the 22-year-old ntroversy a most rabow-hued way: by lnchg the official Teletubbi Pri Collectn, jt ahead of June.
Om 1998 to 2008 and had a reboot 2015 — all started 22 years ago, when Baptist televangelist and noted homophobe Jerry Falwell penned "Parents Alert: Tky Wky Com Out of the Closet, " the Natnal Liberty Journal, a promotnal publitn for his evangelil Liberty Universy, notg, "He is purple — the gay pri lor, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle — the gay pri symbol. (GIF: YouTube/Teletubbi)A ltle ntext: This was jt two years after Ellen DeGener me out as gay and three years after Print Bill Clton signed the Defense of Marriage Act to law, effectively banng same-sex marriage.