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

“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.

HOW A GAY CHARACTER ON ARTHUR REFLECTS CHANGG NORMS THE U.S.

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' CREATOR DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE EPISO FOLLOWG BACKLASH

“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said an terview wh Queerty. This isn’t the first time that the Arthur universe has broached the subject of gay upl, fact. After all, this is a world where an aardvark looks like that and has a rabb for a bt iend; why would be so remarkable that people are gay?

Fourteen years later, ’s still unmon for children’s shows to feature gay characters — enough that often be headle-makg news when someone out, or when a show adds a nonheterosexual relatnship. How a Gay Character on Arthur Reflects Changg Norms the U.

Still, ’s possible to unt on your fgers the number of kids’ shows that have picted gay characters. Ratburn, is gay.

'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED BELOVED CHILDREN'S CARTOON

We all know people who are gay, who are trans, and ’s somethg that is socially acceptable, ” Brown said. Ratburn, was gay and gettg married. Shortly after s premiere, the ter epted over the cln of a gay character and storyle such a proment children’s program.

Ratburn om ‘Arthur’ is gay. Do you know how amazg is that someone who’s been on the show om the start, someone who’s a ma character, is openly gay and gettg married on a kids show?

Ratburn om arthur is gay this is the absolute bt thg you’ll see all day, ” noted one person, while another joyfully said, “Mr. Ratburn is gay, im cryg. Ratburn is gay by him havg a same sex marriage.

‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED SEASON 22 PREMIERE

And then there were some who weren’t necsarily agast the choice, but were nfed as to why a gay character was “need” on a children’s show. Ratburn om Arthur is gay….

It’s a kids show, don’t exactly ‘need’ an openly gay character, ” wrote one er.

ARTHUR’S GAY WEDDG: WHY N’T A RTOON UPLE TIE THE KNOT ALABAMA?

I jt don’t unrstand why so many TV characters are gay the days. RELATED VIDEO: Josh Gad on Controversial ‘Gay Moment’ In ‘Bety & the Beast:’ ‘This Film Is One of Inclivens’. MR RATBURN IS GAY?!?

Ratburn beg gay is *my* Game of Thron fale. animatn twter is losg over the fact that arthur ma mr ratburn gay but no one is talkg about his clearly queer sister. Name: The Arthur gay It happened on 13 May.

Although the rtoon seri started 1996, Arthur will for ever be eight years who is havg the gay weddg? Arthur’s third-gra teacher, Mr Ratburn is gay? Get to the part where he says rats n’t be gay.

GAY MARRIAGE ARTHUR PH THE LIMS OF SOCIAL REALISM CHILDREN’S TV

What a wonrful kd of day… to look back on some hobby drama volvg everybody’s favore gay rtoon rat! “When Bter the Bunny paid a vis last year, we never imaged that would create such a firtorm across the untry… Our children grew up watchg Bter, DW and the rt of the gang on "Arthur" and they were both proud and exced to troduce other kids to Vermont and to the fay and home that they love… This cha of events, begng wh Spellgs’ nmnatn of Gay and Lbian-n fai beg shown on Public TV as an actual segment of the Uned Stat, sent a very clear msage to my children: You and your fay are not worthy, not valid, and not accepted.

You might assume that the "Sugar Time" ntroversy would’ve turned the Arthur wrers off om ever venturg near the topic of homosexualy aga.

Ratburn, a reoccurrg character sce the first season, is sually disclosed to be gay the last 45 sends of the episo.

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

While fan reactn was mostly posive, there were many people upset by this “display of the gay agenda”. “All for gay marriage but not at the age you are targetg, pretty msed up....

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Alabama Public Televisn ref to air 'Arthur' episo wh gay weddg.

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