Contents:
- YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
- THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN
- THE GUY WHO PLAYED TKY WKY, THE ‘GAY’ PURPLE TELETUBBY, HAS DIED
- THE TELETUBBI EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
- TELETUBBY IS SECRET GAY, SAYS EVANGELIST
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.
THE WHOLLY UNSURPRISG STORY BEHD TKY WKY’S ELEVATN AS A GAY IN
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?
THE GUY WHO PLAYED TKY WKY, THE ‘GAY’ PURPLE TELETUBBY, HAS DIED
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 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 EMBRACE PRI, MORE THAN TWO S AFTER 'GAY' TKY WKY SNDAL
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. The time was ripe for a homophobic Teletubby nspiracy. That antenna stuck on s head was shaped a triangle – a gay pri symbol.
TELETUBBY IS SECRET GAY, SAYS EVANGELIST
Falwell had ma a name for himself as an anti-gay csar: he preached that AIDS was God’s punishment for society’s tilt towards tolerance, and said thgs like “gay folks would jt as soon as kill you as look at you” (they’re all like Cyclops om X-Men, yeah?
Oh and he would also go on to blame 9/11 on homosexuals “and the pagans, and the abortnists, and the femists”. “He’s not gay.
Wh an irony that now looks as evable as do sweet, progrsiv took his nmnatn as a cue and embraced TW as a gay in. “And at an Afterwords fe a gay area of the natn’s pal, you n eat ‘Tky Wky Ravli’, ” wrote the Dallas Morng News.