Contents:
- GAY CHARACTERS ON CHILDREN’S TV, OM BERT TO SPONGEBOB
- THE LONG AND SPECULATIVE HISTORY OF GAY CHARACTERS ON CHILDREN'S TV SHOWS
- IF PIGLET WAS YOUR FAVOURE WNIE THE POOH CHARACTER, LET’S BE HONT, YOU’RE GAY
GAY CHARACTERS ON CHILDREN’S TV, OM BERT TO SPONGEBOB
Wnie the Pooh, the beloved animated bear that has lighted children worldwi, has been banned om a playground Tzyn, Poland, bee the cy uncil there believ the bear is eher transgenr, tersex, or gay. But people have speculated for years that the puppets may be gay, and now 900 people have signed a petn on for the old iends to marry. ” Many terpreted Bert’s e of the word “mo” a tweet back June as a subtle nod to the homosexual muny.
In 1999, Evangelil pastor Jerry Falwell acced the character Tky Wky of beg a closeted homosexual and therefore a “moral menace. ” Falwell’s foolproof reasong: Tky Wky is purple wh triangular antennae, both of which allegedly signal gay pri.
The official statement om Itsy-Bsy Entertament is that Tky Wky is neher gay nor straight.
THE LONG AND SPECULATIVE HISTORY OF GAY CHARACTERS ON CHILDREN'S TV SHOWS
SpongeBob SquarePants: ‘Erotic Intensy’ Biki Bottom SpongeBob SquarePants should breathe a sigh of relief that anti-gay marriage legislatn is not enforced over the unrwater cy of Biki Bottom. While there’s no official documentatn that any of the Peanuts characters are gay, Peppermt Patty’s failure to woo Charlie Brown has sparked mors about her sexualy. Inter chatter suggts that Charl Schulz’s iendship wh openly gay tennis star Billie Jean Kg fluenced Smurf: Mirrors and Flowers Wh the exceptn of Smurfette, the Smurfs are all short blue mal clean whe pants and nil hats who choose skippg as their ma mo of transportatn.
Dpe his signature Smurf good vib, Vany Smurf, however, has been clud on many lists of ambiguoly gay televisn characters.
IF PIGLET WAS YOUR FAVOURE WNIE THE POOH CHARACTER, LET’S BE HONT, YOU’RE GAY
But maybe Donnie’s right when he philosophiz about the illogil and asexual existence of the Pooh’s Gay Friend? ”He-Man: Beefke of the Universe There is no hero (or beefke) this universe equivalent to He-Man, who is lled the spiratn for the sexual edy the SNL sk “The Ambiguoly Gay Duo. ” Supporters of the gay He-Man theory pot to his alter ego Prce Adam, who wears a fashnable pk top, purple spanx, and purple Ugg boots.
Stewie is ually hell bent on world domatn and killg his mother, but ocsnally viewers get a glimpse of his yearng for a gay life.
The high-pched, why sikick to Ln-O and arguably most annoyg character the seri, Snarf, has been the target of gay mors. But the subtext is not so subtexty here: queer has, for almost a century, meant homosexual and Levy, who also wrote an exprsly lbian romance novel for teens lled Come Out Sg, was clearly not above stickg overt referenc her tl. A page om Jenny Liv wh Eric and Mart by Suzanne Bösche, brand ‘blatant homosexual propaganda’ by Margaret Thatcher’s tn secretary Kenh BakerOther girls adopted as lbian ins have clud Caddie – of Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brk – Pippi Longstockg and Harriet the Spy.