"Same Street" is celebratg Pri Month by gog where ’s never gone before. This week, the inic children’s show dropped a very special episo lled “Fay Day,” troducg two gay dads, Frank and Dave (the brother of Na, who works as a bike store owner on the street), and their dghter, Mia.
Contents:
- SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
- WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
- SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’
- SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
- BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
- ‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE, MAKG A BOLD STATEMENT FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY
- ‘SAME STREET’ CLUS GAY MARRIED UPLE FOR FIRST TIME SHOW’S 51 YEARS
- 'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY
SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
A former wrer for the Muppets said he nsired Bert and Ernie to be gay — and Same Street quickly refuted his terpretatn * gay sesame street *
'Same Street' troduc fay wh two gay dads. The episo featured a fay wh two gay dads. Plenty of Muppets are romantic relatnships, so who r if a uple of obvly gay puppets are gay?
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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.
WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
* gay sesame street *
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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. 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.
SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’
” 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.
SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
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 ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
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.
“We never tend them to be gay. A former wrer for Same Street said a recent terview that he nsired Bert and Ernie to be gay — but the show rebutted this claim, sayg the puppets “do not have a sexual orientatn.
‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE, MAKG A BOLD STATEMENT FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY
“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said. ’ But those two… you had characters that appealed to a gay dience. This week, the inic children’s show dropped a very special episo lled “Fay Day, ” troducg two gay dads, Frank and Dave (the brother of Na, who works as a bike store owner on the street), and their dghter, Transcript[MUSIC PLAYING].
‘SAME STREET’ CLUS GAY MARRIED UPLE FOR FIRST TIME SHOW’S 51 YEARS
“Same Street” celebrated Pri Month by troducg s first gay married uple to the show.
This was the first time the 51-year history of “Same Street” that a gay married uple was clud a storyle. “Same Street” celebrated Pri Month by troducg s first gay married uple to the famo children’s show.
"Same Street" is markg Pri Month by showg a type of fay that has never been seen the 51-year history of the inic children's televisn show shared an episo last week lled "Fay Day" that featur a married gay uple of two dads wh their dghter. The show also answered a qutn about long-time characters and roommat Bert and Ernie, sayg 2018 that they are not gay, they are "bt iends.