PBS has jt nfirmed that Mr. Ratburn, Arthur's no-nonsense-wh-a-heart-of-gold teacher, is gay.
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- 'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE
- RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
- 'ARTHUR' CREATOR DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE EPISO FOLLOWG BACKLASH
- 'ARTHUR'S MR. RATBURN HAS A GAY WEDDG ON PBS' CHILDREN'S SHOW
- 'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED BELOVED CHILDREN'S CARTOON
- ARTHUR'S TEACHER OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED ON THE PBS KIDS SHOW'S SEASON PREMIERE
- PBS 'TAKG ADVANTAGE' OF PARENT'S TST BY CLUDG GAY WEDDG 'ARTHUR': CONSERVATIVE GROUP
- ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR "ARTHUR" EPISO WH GAY WEDDG
- ‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED SEASON 22 PREMIERE
'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.
RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
I know what and who he is, " Oz wrote on Mark Saltzman, a former wrer for “Same Street, ” mataed that the puppets were gay.
“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said an terview wh Queerty. They suffered the harsh homophobia of their time. Supporters say there are both lerary and moral reasons for their only has "their geni nourished for more than a century our lerary and poetic imagatn", but also their current burial plac - Charleville-Mezier, Arnn for Rimbd, a cemetery off the Paris rg road for Verlae - are "unworthy" is also the homophobic persecutn which Verlae above all had to source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The revolver that Verlae ed to try to kill his lover was sold at ctn 2016Famoly, the poets' relatnship end 1873 when Verlae fired a gun and lightly wound Rimbd Bssels.
'ARTHUR' CREATOR DEFENDS GAY MARRIAGE EPISO FOLLOWG BACKLASH
Name: The Arthur gay weddg.Age: It happened on 13 May.Appearance: Animated.You mean that Arthur, the lovable, bpectacled rtoon aardvark of children’s TV, fally got married? Although the rtoon seri started 1996, Arthur will for ever be eight years old.So who is havg the gay weddg? Arthur’s third-gra teacher, Mr Ratburn.Mr Ratburn is gay?
Get to the part where he says rats n’t be gay. In December, the show troduced Lily, a muppet who is homels and livg shelters and on iends’ 2018-19 report “Where We Are on TV, ” released by Glaad, an anizatn that tracks reprentatn of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the media, noted some recent stris.
'ARTHUR'S MR. RATBURN HAS A GAY WEDDG ON PBS' CHILDREN'S SHOW
“You know at a very young age if you are trans and gay or bisexual and lbian, ” Ms.
Arthur Rimbd, the ee-spired French poet whose openly gay liftyle shocked even the most avant gar artists of London and Paris the late 19th Century. When Verlae moved to the si of homosexual love, the imag of Merva and Ven immediately disappeared om his poems. 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 and Patrick strollg arm--arm down the aisle to cello word "gay" is never spoken.
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ARTHUR'S TEACHER OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED ON THE PBS KIDS SHOW'S SEASON PREMIERE
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.
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….
PBS 'TAKG ADVANTAGE' OF PARENT'S TST BY CLUDG GAY WEDDG 'ARTHUR': CONSERVATIVE GROUP
It’s a kids show, don’t exactly ‘need’ an openly gay character, ” wrote one er. I jt don’t unrstand why so many TV characters are gay the days.
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ALABAMA PUBLIC TELEVISN REF TO AIR "ARTHUR" EPISO WH GAY WEDDG
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.
PBS has jt nfirmed what those wh heightened gaydar have spected for years — Mr. Ratburn, Arthur's no-nonsense-wh-a-heart-of-gold teacher, is gay. The ter was not shy their opns about a rtoon school teacher vg his stunts to his Ratburn beg gay is *my* Game of Thron fale— ??? ??????’ ???????? (@salmattos) May 13, 2019PSA: Mr.
‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY AND GETS MARRIED SEASON 22 PREMIERE
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?
#Arthur — Daniel Mole (@DanielMole29) May 13, 2019On the one hand this gay weddg on Arthur is so cute but on the other hand image gog to a teacher’s weddg— Ira Madison III (@ira) May 13, 2019The episo do not overtly label Mr. Ratburn as "gay" much like another episo of an Arthur spoff show, Postrds From Bter, that featured gay characters. "But gay activists are not satisfied wh jt changg the law — people mt change their beliefs, too.
Children are not askg for their rtoon characters to be gay — activists the entertament dtry are forcg on them. It is offensive to me and my fay that the work would glorify the homosexual liftyle. ”“Arthur, ” which premiered 1996, has prevly featured a gay character.