'Same Street' featur 2 gay fathers for 1st time 51-year history

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG 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
HOW GAY ARE THE MUPPETS?
ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?
'SAME STREET' THREATENS LAWSU OVER GAY MUPPET RUMORS
SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’
'SAME STREET' INTRODUC GAY COUPLE DURG PRI MONTH
THIS GAY PUPPETEER HELPED PUT 'THE MUPPET SHOW' ON THE MAP AND CHANGED TV FOREVER
WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY
THE FIGHT OVER SAME STREET’S BERT AND ERNIE AS A GAY UPLE, EXPLAED

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

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'Same Street' troduc fay wh two gay dads. The episo featured a fay wh two gay dads.

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. “I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said.

SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY

Crics poted out that the show has never explicly shown LGBTQ characters, but they're ignorg the many out gay actors who have stopped by Same Street recent years. * gay muppet sesame street *

’ But those two… you had characters that appealed to a gay dience.

BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS

Same Street is embracg diversy. Earlier this year, two Black characters were troduced who discsed racial differenc, and now the show has weled two gay dads. The same-sex uple, Dave and his hband Frank... * gay muppet sesame street *

Related: Republin wants to cut fundg om “Same Street” bee a gay man will appear on.

HOW GAY ARE THE MUPPETS?

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Same Street repeated the same le 2018 when our sister se Queerty reported that one of the show’s key wrers always saw the roommat as a gay uple.

Where HIV disproportnately affects non-whe, gay and bi men and trans people, her mere existence at least hted at the show’s sire to get to potentially touchy terrory.

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?

Neverthels, Same Street has stood up to other queerphob of late by featurg very out celebri their show cludg lbian talk show host Ellen DeGener, edian Billy Eichner, Pose actor and sger Billy Porter, and most recently gay rapper Lil’ Nas X. In the 1970s, he was one of the most famo gay men the world … whose face nobody regnized. At the same time, Richard was enjoyg gay New York of the 1970s, which was an credible time and place.

'SAME STREET' THREATENS LAWSU OVER GAY MUPPET RUMORS

The documentary Gay Sex the '70s ptur jt a taste of the post-Stonewall life, where ee love had created an environment far ls hibed than prev s. It has long been whispered that Same Street's Bert and Ernie are gay. They're not even homosexual (if ed 's possible for mere puppets to be sexual).

The shift the standard mor of gayns to clu s subjects actually gettg married is, I thk, a reflectn of the tim. Joseph Chambers attempted to get the puppets banned unr a ltle-ed anti-gay law the ep South. Bert and Ernie, who've been on Same Street for 25 years, do not portray a gay uple, and there are no plans for them to do so the future.

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Though 's impossible to p down where the "Bert and Ernie are gay" mor began, one potential source is The Real Thg, a 1980 Doubleday book by Kurt Anrsen.

'SAME STREET' INTRODUC GAY COUPLE DURG PRI MONTH

In this book (which purports to be "A gui to separatg the genue om the ersatz, the men om the boys, and the wheat om the chaff"), Anrsen mak the whimsil claim that among homosexuals, Bert and Ernie are "the Real Thg":. Bert and Ernie nduct themselv the same lovg, discreet way that lns of gay men, women and hand puppets do.

Not that there's anythg wrong wh beg a gay Muppet, but the Children's Televisn Workshop has threatened to take legal actn agast Peter Spears, the director of Ernt and Bertram, a documentary spoof of two male puppets who bee heated 8-mute movie ends wh a distrght Ernie shootg himself the head. In 1993, TV Gui received dozens of letters railg agast Same Street for ndong a homosexual relatnship.

THIS GAY PUPPETEER HELPED PUT 'THE MUPPET SHOW' ON THE MAP AND CHANGED TV FOREVER

Shortly after, a North Carola preacher began a mpaign on his rad show to ban them for their Hollywood Urban Legends, cric Richard Roeper trac the mors of Ernie and Bert's sexualy to Spy magaze founr Kurt Anrson, who once joked that "Bert and Ernie nduct themselv the same lovg, discreet way that lns of gay men, women and hand puppets do.

"The suatn grew so unpleasant that the Children's Televisn Workshop had to issue this 1993 prs release: "Bert and Ernie, who've been on Same Street for 25 years, do not portray a gay uple, and there are no plans for them to do so the future. 'It's OK to Be a Gay Muppet'Fzgerald's se had actually been closed several months before the protts, after lawyers for the Children's Televisn Workshop threatened to sue him.

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"But I don't thk Bert did bee he's 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.