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. 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.
More and more books have been published directly pictg queer relatnships and varyg genr inti for young and teen rears: Philip Pullman’s gay angels Bach and Balthamos His Dark Materials; 10-year-old Harold Hutchs Capta Unrpants; Patrick the YA morn classic The Perks of Beg a none of the above is to suggt that the books al wh sexualy the way that adults see . 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.
IF PIGLET WAS YOUR FAVOURE WNIE THE POOH CHARACTER, LET’S BE HONT, YOU’RE GAY
” 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.