Contents:
- GAY CHARACTERS ON CHILDREN’S TV, OM BERT TO SPONGEBOB
- 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.
IF PIGLET WAS YOUR FAVOURE WNIE THE POOH CHARACTER, LET’S BE HONT, YOU’RE GAY
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.
But where lbians have been alternately ignored, fetishised or dismissed as harmls flirtatns, gay men have been ntroversial sce the days of the Old Ttament; disfort at gay male characters or perceived mon tras mak anthropomorphism almost are the days of needg to disguise queerns furry layers.