More than 20 years ago, Teletubbi were at the center of a so-lled gay ntroversy surroundg [...]
Contents:
- YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
- THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
- THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN
- TELETUBBY IS SECRET GAY, SAYS EVANGELIST
YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
Once h by gay mors, the popular children's TV characters have embraced their role as queer ins. * red teletubby gay *
Jerry Falwell ma his livg fdg gay people where they didn’t belong. “Remember … homosexuals do not reproduce, ” the televangelist and activist warned his followers 1981.
THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
” He claimed to have nonted Print Carter about why he employed “practicg homosexuals” the Whe Hoe 1980. So when Falwell claimed 1999 to have disvered that one of the Teletubbi was gay, seemed like yet another example of his proprietary blend of vicns and absurdy.
“He is purple—the gay pri lor, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle—the gay pri symbol, ” Falwell wrote an issue of his own magaze.
THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN
To have “ltle boys nng around wh purs and actg effemate and leavg the ia that the mascule male, the feme female is out, and gay is OK” is somethg “Christians do not agree wh, ” he told Katie Couric. How uld they be gay?
TELETUBBY IS SECRET GAY, SAYS EVANGELIST
In the years precedg his supposed exposé, many publitns had wrten about the gay muny’s adoptn of Tky Wky as one of their own. When the show buted England 1997, s hypnotic, wkg weirdns had almost immediately bee popular wh club kids and the gay muny. The Inpennt referred to his “mp, handbag-rryg antics, ” and the Guardian lled him a “gay in” who “pranc around.