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Contents:

• YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
• THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
• THE TELETUBBI ARE ‘GAY MONS’ BEE THEY WANT TO WORK WH LIL NAS X. Y, REALLY
• TELETUBBY IS SECRET GAY, SAYS EVANGELIST
• ARE TELETUBBI A GAY IN??
• TELETUBBI ACCED OF BEG “LTLE GAY DEMONS”
• THE GAY TELETUBBY; TELEVISN: THE REV. JERRY FALWELL SISTS THE PURPLE BABY-SHOW CHARACTER TKY WKY IS HOMOSEXUAL.
• ARE TELETUBBI GAY
• NATNAL NEWS BRIEFS; FALWELL SE 'GAY' IN A TELETUBBY
• US CHRISTIAN POLICIAN LLS TELETUBBI ‘LTLE GAY MONS’ BIZARRE TWTER EXCHANGE WH LIL NAS X
• THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN
• THE LAST WORD: TELETUBBY SAYS WE WEREN'T GAY

YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS 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. ” 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. 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? 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 TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL

The Inpennt referred to his “mp, handbag-rryg antics, ” and the Guardian lled him a “gay in” who “pranc around. Proment gay gossip lumnist Michael Mto told Entertament Weekly (“only half tongue--cheek”) that the character offered a great msage: “not only that ’s okay to be gay, but the importance of beg well-accsorized. At the time, many enlightened mastream crics took the attu that Falwell and the gay prs were equally perverse for foistg sexual preferenc on bunch of preverbal stuffed animals.

For one thg, to ll Tky Wky “gay” do not mean that Tky Wky has sex, and the mere prence of queer characters is not self “sexual nuendo.

THE TELETUBBI ARE ‘GAY MONS’ BEE THEY WANT TO WORK WH LIL NAS X. Y, REALLY

In the years sce then, subtext has bee text, and children’s televisn producers have gone om wkg at their characters’ private liv to creatg openly gay adult and kid characters. (Photo urty Teletubbi Pri Collectn)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.

TELETUBBY IS SECRET GAY, SAYS EVANGELIST

(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. Anti-sodomy laws are unnstutnal, and five years before Massachetts would bee the first state to legalize gay marriage (while feral legalizatn would not e until 2015) so, for those who haven’t been followg along om the begng — or anyone need of a reher — here's a brief timele of the Teletubbi' journey om nial to acceptance to full-on pri.

ARE TELETUBBI A GAY IN??

1999Jerry Falwell panics, cg "evince" about Tky Wky's gay role mol stat. "The character, whose voice is obvly that of a boy, has been found rryg a red purse, and has bee a favore character among gay groups worldwi, " Falwell (who would die 2007) famoly wr his magaze, along wh tails about character's hue and triangle antenna.

He adds, "As a Christian, I feel that role-molg the gay liftyle is damagg the moral liv of children. (Photo: REUTERS/Trevor Samson)Falwell giv some cred for the tip-off to Washgton Post wrer Michael Colton, who had recently (and jokgly) clared, his annual "In/Out" lumn, that Tky Wky would be replacg the jt-out Ellen Degener as the new gay ambassador (somethg Colton amgly apologiz for after the Falwell fallout) others had beaten him to the punch, wh Tky Wky already proudly claimed by the gay prs — cludg the Advote, Out magaze and the Village Voice, which lumnist Michael Mto clared that Tky Wky is "out and proud" and sends "a great msage to kids — not only that 's OK to be gay, but the importance of beg well-accsorized. " Lookg back years later, Mto would rell, "As I land the middle of this hilar ntretemps, I had to chuckle over the fact that Falwell and I actually agreed on somethg—that Tky was gay.

TELETUBBI ACCED OF BEG “LTLE GAY DEMONS”

"After penng his divisive piece, Falwell doubl down on the Today show, tellg then-host Katie Couric that 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. " Teletubbi spokperson Kenn Viselman, meanwhile, holds a prs Falwell rilg folks up wh homophobic rhetoric was nothg new, as evinced by this photo of gay prottors at the 1992 Republin Natnal Conventn, outsi of Falwell luncheon, Hoton, Tex.

THE GAY TELETUBBY; TELEVISN: THE REV. JERRY FALWELL SISTS THE PURPLE BABY-SHOW CHARACTER TKY WKY IS HOMOSEXUAL.

" He adds, "If gay people thk Tky Wky is gay, ’s bee there aren’t enough gay role mols on TV.

ARE TELETUBBI GAY

Later I learned that this may have a homosexual unrtone.

"Whether Tky Wky is gay or not is still the most equently asked qutn that we get. Obuari note that Barn, who replaced origal Tky Wky Dave Thompson, had at one pot addrsed the ntroversy, sayg, "People always ask me if Tky Wky is gay, but the character is supposed to be a 3-year-old, so the qutn is really que silly.

NATNAL NEWS BRIEFS; FALWELL SE 'GAY' IN A TELETUBBY

Takg to Instagram, Wzke, who is a self-scribed “Amerin Christian Natnalist” acrdg to her profile, sisted that she “always knew that the Teletubbi were ltle gay mons”. While the Teletubbi beg seemgly volved the so-lled “gay agenda” that Nas, fact, thanked aver wng big at the MTV Vio Mic Awards last week, might strike some as jt another wild right-wg nspiracy, Wzke was not sharg a fever dream here.

For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsTINKY WINKY, the purple Teletubby who rri a red patent handbag the children's BBC televisn show, was "outed" yterday as a homosexual by Natnal Liberty Journal, an Amerin magaze eded by the Christian right-wg evangelist, the Rev Jerry an article entled "Parents Alert: Tky Wky Com Out of the Closet", the magaze issued a warng to parents the Uned Stat to shield their children om the rptg fluence of the character, who liv a dome wh the other Teletubbi - Dipsy, La La and Po. Wh his boy's voice and dsy meanour, Tky Wky is fact a vert gay role mol, the article Rice, spokman forThe Itsy Bsy Entertament Company, which reprents Teletubbi the US, was emphatic: "To thk we would be puttg sexual nuendo a children's show is kd of outlandish" the preacher's journal is nvced of the Tellytubby's orientatn: "[Tky Wky] is purple - the gay pri lor, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pri symbol. Were Teletubbi, wh televisns on their belli, always gay ins?

Me and tky wky on the hook, dipsy & po on the vers and we’ll let laa laa do the outro — psy (@LilNasX) September 17, 2021 Now mt be noted that the flamboyant Lil Nas X is openly Gay and is a supporter and reprentative of the LGBTQ+ muny. And while Teletubbi teractn wh him got them labelled ‘ ltle gay mons’ by the popular TV host Lren Wzske, the speculatn regardg their homosexualy is not new.

US CHRISTIAN POLICIAN LLS TELETUBBI ‘LTLE GAY MONS’ BIZARRE TWTER EXCHANGE WH LIL NAS X

In the Febary edn of the Natnal Libert Journal, he acced Tky of beg gay, his reason beg that Tky had a ‘boy’s voice’, and yet he rried a red purse. Back then a triangle antenna was a sign of Gay Pri. “he is purple, the gay pri lour, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle: the gay pri symbol.

Although at the time the spokperson of Teletubbi, Steve Rice nied the accatns, he also raised an important ncern of there not beg enough gay role mols on TV.

Rice also reprimand Falwell for his accatn statg, “ The fact that he rri a magic bag don’t make him gay.

THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN

” From then on Tky Wky untentnally beme a symbol of gay pri. From Tky leadg gay pri paras to plac of bs llg themselv ‘TINKY- WINKY FRIENDLY’, was clear to all that Pastor Falwell’s agenda had effectively backfired. It’s a great msage to kids: not only that ’s okay to be gay, but the importance of beg well-accsorized.

” After Falwell, unnecsarily labelled Tky as gay, several nservative ernments cid to properly vtigate the matter. It is yet to be proved however if the Teletubbi are homosexual or not.

Although, all this fs do lead to qutn that do matter if Tky is actually gay? Is not smart to teach the children equaly and clivy rather than turng them to homophobic people?

THE LAST WORD: TELETUBBY SAYS WE WEREN'T GAY

Senate nomee Lren Wzke is the latt homophobic nservative cricizg Lil Nas X for everythg he do. She shared the Teletubbi tweet on her Instagram sayg, “I always knew that the Teletubbi were ltle gay mons.

Twenty years earlier, now-ceased televangelist Jerry Falwell received natnwi srn after chastisg the makers of the children’s program for creatg what he sisted was a “gay rights in.