Even though Bert and Ernie officially aren't gay, next week's ver of <em>The New Yorker</em> featur <em>Same Street</em>'s not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week's Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don't overthk : Ameri's most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of Ameri.
Contents:
- WHY IS EVERYONE TAKG BERT AND ERNIE'S BIG GAY MAGAZE COVER SO SERLY?
- SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
- BERT AND ERNIE'S NEW YORKER COVER IS A PICTURE PERFECT SYMBOL FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
- NEW YORKER VER SUGGTS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
- BERT AND ERNIE'S NEW YORKER COVER IS A PICTURE PERFECT SYMBOL FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- FRANK OZ WEIGHS ON 'SAME STREET' WRER SAYG BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
- MAGAZE VER SUGGTS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
WHY IS EVERYONE TAKG BERT AND ERNIE'S BIG GAY MAGAZE COVER SO SERLY?
In honor of this week's Supreme Court cisn strikg down the Defense of Marriage Act, The New Yorker selected a sweet, seemgly nocent ver featurg Bert and Ernie, the beloved but "not gay" gay ins om Same Street, which has stirred up an Inter reactn that is pletely overblown but altogether revealg. Clearly the uch-potato image of Bert and his long-time roommate have unleashed some eper emotns that were hidg the pund ge the days followg the Court's lgs on Wednday. ... * bert and ernie gay magazine cover *
Skip to ma ntentNewsBooks & CultureFictn & PoetryHumor & CartoonsMagazePuzzl & GamVioPodstsGogs OnFtivalShop“It’s amazg to wns how attus on gay rights have evolved my lifetime, ” said Jack Hunter, the artist behd next week’s ver, “Moment of Joy.
In honor of this week's Supreme Court cisn strikg down the Defense of Marriage Act, The New Yorker selected a sweet, seemgly nocent ver featurg Bert and Ernie, the beloved but "not gay" gay ins om Same Street, which has stirred up an Inter reactn that is pletely overblown but altogether revealg. RELATED: Bert and Ernie's New Yorker Cover Is a Picture Perfect Symbol for Gay MarriageHomophob: We Haven't Lost YetThe Rponse: A rear emails, based on our ial post about the ver: "Why do we have to make everythg to some homosexual issue!?
The homosexual muny is ls than six percent of our populatn (om bt timat I have read), but they take up so much of social issu. "RELATED: Is This the Last Big Gay-Marriage Fight?
SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
A former wrer for the Muppets said he nsired Bert and Ernie to be gay — and Same Street quickly refuted his terpretatn * bert and ernie gay magazine cover *
Pro-gay marriage liberal eaks n't even leave children out of their sick sex issu.
BERT AND ERNIE'S NEW YORKER COVER IS A PICTURE PERFECT SYMBOL FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Even though Bert and Ernie officially aren't gay, next week's ver of The New Yorker featur Same Street's not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week's Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don't overthk : Ameri's most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of Ameri. ... * bert and ernie gay magazine cover *
" — as if to suggt that the gays will doctrate our nocent babi.
RELATED: Supreme Court to Review Gay Marriage: Everythg You Need to Know NowWhat It Really Means: The subtext here is that the people still fd your liftyle disgtg, and as our rear Bobby Mota not, " uld easily go backwards.
) Homophob are still homophobic and will always be homophobic, no matter what Anthony Kennedy says. RELATED: What the Natn's Gay Rights Landmarks Looked Like on the Day DOMA DiedThe New Yorker Isn't Takg Us Serly EnoughThe Reactn: On the other si of the issue, gay marriage advot fd the ver "offensive" and a "terrible way to memorate a civil rights victory" bee...
BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
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As Same Street has self noted, Bert and Ernie are jt roommat who live together: They n't have sex, and they aren't gay. So, the ver don't make sense and is homophobic and of self, apparently. "The propagatn of the narrative is a childish statement that says more about the sexually obssed and slightly homophobic tennci of our culture, " wr Flavorwire's Tyler Coat.
Two dus livg together don't have to be gay, du. As Thomas nces, at the end of her screed,, Bert and Ernie are gay ins: "(All that said, whoever go to Pri this weekend drsed as Bert and Ernie is gog to gay heaven.
NEW YORKER VER SUGGTS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
The gay marriage e serv better than puppets, people, like the fac of the platiffs the DOMA and Proposn 8 s, suggts Coat. (To be fair: The New Yorker has had out a bunch of other ls juvenile gay vers. The magaze even put together a click-bag sli show of other gay marriage vers.
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.
BERT AND ERNIE'S NEW YORKER COVER IS A PICTURE PERFECT SYMBOL FOR GAY MARRIAGE
’ But those two… you had characters that appealed to a gay dience.
Even though Bert and Ernie officially aren't gay, next week's ver of The New Yorker featur Same Street's not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week's Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don't overthk : Ameri's most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of Ameri.
Of urse, Same Street and the pany of founr Jim Henson has sisted many tim that the orange and yellow pals are neher straight nor gay nor transgenr or anythg else: "They rema puppets, and do not have a sexual orientatn, " or so go public televisn's party le. As , Muppets n't have sex or aren't supposed to be overtly human, and spe the new legal regnn of all, the two probably won't be havg that big gay TV marriage everyone wants.
FRANK OZ WEIGHS ON 'SAME STREET' WRER SAYG BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
"It's amazg to wns how attus on gay rights have evolved my lifetime, " he said. Bert and Ernie, if they were gay and wanted to and if Same Street was New York, uld have gotten married the state two years ago, and uld now have regnized by the feral ernment. But the artist sists that the msage isn't specific so much as a symbol to help keep teachg children about gay rights.
The suggtn is that the characters were happily celebratg the recent SCOTUS lgs on gay marriage.
“It’s amazg to wns how attus on gay rights have evolved my lifetime, ” the magaze’s webse quot Hunter as sayg. Even though Bert and Ernie officially aren't gay, next week's ver of The New Yorker featur Same Street's not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week's Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don't overthk : Ameri's most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of article is om the archive of our partner though Bert and Ernie officially aren't gay, next week's ver of The New Yorker featur Same Street's not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week's Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don't overthk : Ameri's most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of Ameri.
MAGAZE VER SUGGTS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
Frank Oz is voice of dozens of puppets and muppets as one of Jim Henson's earlit llaborators — and now the storied puppeteer is lendg his voice to the bate over whether or not "Same Street" characters Bert and Ernie are gay.
Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay. Why the need to fe people as only gay? There's much more to a human beg than jt straightns or gayns.
"Director/producer/puppeteer Frank Oz pos for a portra at the "Muppet Guys Talkg - Secrets Behd the Show the Whole World Watched" at the 2017 SXSW Wkelmeyer / Getty Imag for SXSW fileOz ntued to go back-and-forth wh people rpondg to his tweet who asked why the lorful puppets uldn't be gay. Bert and Ernie were created to be bt iends, and to teach young children that people n get along wh those who are very different om themselv, " the workshop said a statement emailed to NBC ntued to take to Twter, tellg followers he felt he uldn't ll Bert and Ernie gay bee his md wasn't asked why he felt the need to intify the puppets as "not gay, " Oz replied: "The same need I would feel if Bert were intified as a lebacker for the Colts. Next time I would be very terted to know: If Bert and Ernie were ed gay, would they be different than they are now?