'Arthur' character Mr. Ratburn out as gay, gets married season premiere

The star of Hollywood Squar ma a bchy, mp sensibily mastream — and spired a generatn of gay performers. But he paid a high price for beg different. The fascatg story and plex legacy of a troubled ic geni. * carson arthur 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.

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.

Ratburn, was gay and gettg married.

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

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.

AN ‘ARTHUR’ RTOON CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY AND PEOPLE ARE EAKG OUT

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.

‘ARTHUR’ CHARACTER MR. RATBURN ME OUT AS GAY AND GOT MARRIED THE SEASON PREMIERE AND TWTER LOVED

Ratburn om Arthur is gay…. 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.

RELATED VIDEO: Josh Gad on Controversial ‘Gay Moment’ In ‘Bety & the Beast:’ ‘This Film Is One of Inclivens’. Both that the teacher is gay and that the show – a cultural touchstone for many lennials – is still nng. The animated PBS seri “Arthur” kicked off s 22nd season wh a gay weddg.

” the group tweeted, addg a rabow ma headl last year when was revealed that an upg film starrg Dwayne Johnson and Ey Blunt, “The Jungle Cise, ” will feature an openly gay character. Acrdg to a report om The Sun, Brish edian Jack Whehall was named to play the openly gay role.

WATCH: PBS’ CARTOON ‘ARTHUR’ HAS CHARACTER COME OUT AS GAY, MARRY A MAN

“But, more excgly, he is playg a gay man – one who is hugely effete, very mp and very funny. This latt script, set at a time when wasn’t socially acceptable to be gay, is another signifint turng pot.

CARSON KRSLEY PRAIS PBS KIDS' 'ARTHUR' FOR SHOWG GAY WEDDG

The director champned a “nice, exclively gay moment” the film. ”It was also first reported 2017 that The Disney Channel was lookg to clu an LGBT angle their TV shows, too, such as the troductn of a storyle of a gay 13-year-old boy on the h show “Andi Mack. ”“An Andi Mack character has ma history by seemgly beg the first character on a Disney show to say ‘I’m gay, ’” reported Pri Febary.

'ARTHUR' CREATOR REMEMBERS HIS FAVORE MOMENTS OM THE PBS RTOON, CLUDG A GAY WEDDG AND A VIS WH MISTER ROGERS

LGBTQ sex lumnist Dan Savage noted that Earrg Magic Ken’s wardrobe rembled outfs seen at gay rav a few years prr (leave to Ken to be jt behd the tim). And to many who’d seen the doll, the rg around his neck rembled a certa sex toy popular among straight and gay men alike. Even though Mattel nied that he was signed wh gay men md, he was one of the few mastream toys at the time that stck a chord wh LGBTQ nsumers.

" Beg gay was the secret of Lyn's succs, even though was a (half-hearted) secret. Lyn's brilliance was rooted gayns, but he was eply nflicted about . "He was aaid if his followg was mostly gay, would open the ey of his fans that he was also gay and that would end his reer.

"He was probably the first gay person—whether he was g the word or not— a lot of people's hom across Ameri, " actor-edian Billy Eichner says. "He was ahead of his time terms of beg as overtly gay as one uld be, unlike so many stars of that time.

CARSON KRSLEY PRAIS PBS KIDS' 'ARTHUR' FOR SHOWG GAY WEDDG

Lyn played the role wh slightly effemate blunrg outrage—not playg gay, exactly, but not not gay eher.

HOLLYWOOD SQUARES Cred: NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Imag "He was someone whose dog whistle of gay humor ltle gay kids uld hear, " rells Frank DeCaro, The Daily Show veteran, and thor.

"The turng pot my life, when I went om beg the teenage nerd to one of the popular kids, was when I dned for a drama club productn 1980 of Bye Bye Birdie by dog my Pl Lyn imprsn—an imprsn a lot of ltle gay kids did those days. " Lyn troduced small-screen dienc to a new kd of trope—a gay-seemg character who wasn't a victim or object of mockery, but a man who fearlsly dished up snark. "[Wrers] found the humor him—walkg the razor's edge between gay and straight—but didn't work for a s lead back then, " Hollywood Squar producer L Roberts says.

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