'Same Street' featur 2 gay fathers for 1st time 51-year history

Contents:

• SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
• ‘SAME STREET’ CLUS GAY MARRIED UPLE FOR FIRST TIME SHOW’S 51 YEARS
• 'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY
• BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
• SAME STREET INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS
• THE VOICE OF SAME STREET'S ELMO NI HE HAD GAY SEX WH A MOR
• SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’
• SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
• PRI MONTH: ‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC GAY MALE COUPLE FOR ‘FAY DAY’
• ‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC FIRST GAY COUPLE SPECIAL PRI MONTH EPISO
• THE FIGHT OVER SAME STREET’S BERT AND ERNIE AS A GAY UPLE, EXPLAED
• WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
• ‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS
• ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?
• HOW GAY ARE THE MUPPETS?
• REPUBLIN WANTS TO CUT FUNDG OM “SAME STREET” BEE A GAY MAN WILL APPEAR ON

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

'Same Street' troduc fay wh two gay dads. The episo featured a fay wh two gay dads.

“Same Street” celebrated Pri Month by troducg s first gay married uple to the show. This was the first time the 51-year history of “Same Street” that a gay married uple was clud a storyle. “Same Street” celebrated Pri Month by troducg s first gay married uple to the famo children’s show.

For years, dienc have bated whether Bert and Ernie are Same Street's rint gay uple. But their iendship has been the subject of much bate over the years and many speculated that the two are fact a gay uple. Why People Thk Bert and Ernie Are a Gay Couple.

‘SAME STREET’ CLUS GAY MARRIED UPLE FOR FIRST TIME SHOW’S 51 YEARS

The mors led to a number of public sentments om Same Workshop statg that they are not a gay uple, but are simply bt iends. Mark Saltzman, ex-wrer for Same Street, alleged that Bert and Ernie were based on his timate gay relatnship wh a worker — but should be noted that Saltzman is not the creator of Bert and Ernie.

'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY

Another reason the bate has gone on so long is om the unrlyg homophobia that l our society and, up until recently, domated the media.

BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS

People fear what they don't unrstand, and many the LGBTQ+ muny believe that those who ny that Bert and Ernie may be a uple are beg homophobic, takg issue wh the implied queerns. "Same Street" is markg Pri Month by showg a type of fay that has never been seen the 51-year history of the inic children's televisn show shared an episo last week lled "Fay Day" that featur a married gay uple of two dads wh their dghter.

The show also answered a qutn about long-time characters and roommat Bert and Ernie, sayg 2018 that they are not gay, they are "bt iends. Comedian Phillip Henry, known as Major Philebry on Twter, has an tertg angle to the bate about whether Bert or Ernie were actually a gay uple. \nBt iend is Snufflpag (an olr gay man)\nAsexual\nLiv a very nice brown stone next to a popular trash n.

SAME STREET INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS

1537303193\u201cElmo: \nSame Streets most famo Twk \nCsed mass hysteria when he me out 90s everyone wanted to llect him (like straight people did wh gays)\nRefers to himself the third person (GAY)\nHas no job, but lerally is at every sgle event on the books\u201d — Phillip (@Phillip).

THE VOICE OF SAME STREET'S ELMO NI HE HAD GAY SEX WH A MOR

\nHad no time for the mss so only als wh the gays when she needs to clean thgs up\nThe gays of Same Street don't appreciate her enough\nPlays piano \nHas a very popular bpic lled Carol\u201d — Phillip (@Phillip).

SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’

1537303193\u201cCount Von Count:\nVampire (gay speci that only out at night. (gay)\nWears a pe (GAY)\nEyebrows are tweezed\nLiv a stle wh his bats (hags) named Grisha, Misha, Sasha, and Tatiana. (Rters)The man who voic Same Street's popular character Elmo is nyg he had gay sex wh a mor, as Same Street honchos try to assure fans that the high-pched puppet is "bigger than one man.

Same Street was not the only kids’ show that voiced a msage of support for the LGBT activist–backed “Pri Month, ” which promot the homosexual liftyle and genr-fluidy. For a long time, LGBTQ activists and punds have sisted tha the two puppet characters are a “gay uple.

Bert and Ernie “gay” mors were addrsed 2018 when Same Street Workshop, as well as Muppet creator Frank Oz, nied that Bert and Ernie are “gay.

SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY

She was asked if Bert and Ernie are a “mted gay uple.

“You want to thk they’re gay? DROP Disney+: New teen film 'Out' featur openly homosexual ma character! The Twter hashtag #Spongebobisgay began to trend on Twter after many on social media speculated that SpongeBob SquarePants is ed “gay” for beg clud the June 13 Nickeloon tweet.

However, the creator of SpongeBob, Stephen Hillenberg, who died 2018, said 2005 that he “never tend” the Spongebob character and his sikick iend Patrick Starfish to be “gay. “We never tend them to be gay. 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.

PRI MONTH: ‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC GAY MALE COUPLE FOR ‘FAY DAY’

“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said.

’ But those two… you had characters that appealed to a gay dience. Same Street aired s “Fay Day” episo — which featured two gay dads — on WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and YouTube this Thursday. The Same Street episo featurg gay dads arriv durg Pri Month, which actor Alan Muraoka — known as Alan on the show — acknowledged a Facebook post.

‘SAME STREET’ INTRODUC FIRST GAY COUPLE SPECIAL PRI MONTH EPISO

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Red, Whe and Royal Blue’ on Amazon Prime Vio, a Charmgly Star-Crossed Gay Rom-Com. The long-nng children’s program troduced a fay wh two gay dads for the first time ever on s June 18 episo, Yahoo Entertament reports. But long before 2017, Same Street was featurg a famo gay uple.

THE FIGHT OVER SAME STREET’S BERT AND ERNIE AS A GAY UPLE, EXPLAED

Are Bert and Ernie gay?

WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE

Same Street has always had one nsistent official answer (no, they’re not), but that hasn’t stopped the two famo felt roommat om beg gay ins and occupyg a unique role the queer rights movement.

Controversy over their perceived homosexualy has raged termtently for s, spearhead by both alli and adversari — and a new flare-up shows that ’s not gog away anytime soon.

‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS

The official negatn was echoed by puppetmaster Frank Oz, who origally performed Bert oppose Jim Henson as Ernie, and who stated on Twter that “They’re not [gay], of urse.

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?

For those queer fans lookg for narrative subtext, there’s plenty to be found the personas of Bert and Ernie; after all, there’s a reason we as a culture have been discsg their relatnship for s, a reason that they ntue to be held up as gay ins across generatns — and a reason people have spent s beg hoppg mad about . It’s all pretty gay!

Among homosexuals, Bert and Ernie of Same Street are the real thg. Bert and Ernie nduct themselv the same lovg, discreet way that lns of gay men, women and hand puppets do. “I don’t believe there was much public discsn, ser or otherwise, about the crypto-gayns of The Odd Couple the 1960s and ’70s, ” he wrote an email.

“That kd of disurse only appeared ncerng work about straight characters by gay wrers — most famoly, whether Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf was somehow ‘really’ about a gay uple, ” he add. “In 1980, when I published my Bert & Ernie thg, there were still no out gay characters mass media. The piece of the zegeist I was rpondg to was, jt a after Stonewall (which BTW occurred a few months before Same Street premiered) and the first pri march, the hly ‘normalized’ nature of out gayns plac like New York.

HOW GAY ARE THE MUPPETS?

The nversatn between Saltzman and terviewer Reddish is illumatg and poignant, equently returng to Saltzman’s experience as a young gay man the early ’80s, one fdg his way out of the closet jt as the AIDS epimic was begng to be wily unrstood. “I n remember pchg to the tn partment, the gatekeepers of the curriculum, gay ntent, jt to get off my nscience.

But there was one place Saltzman was able to sert his own lived experience as a gay man to his wrg, and that was through the personas of Bert and Ernie. “There is a difference, ” he told the Tim, between “brg[g] what you know to your work” and “Bert and Ernie beg gay.

REPUBLIN WANTS TO CUT FUNDG OM “SAME STREET” BEE A GAY MAN WILL APPEAR ON

But ’s also important to note that if Saltzman’s origal ment to Queerty that “when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were” lovers was te, seems to have been an impulse born out of the ep existential crisis of beg gay durg the AIDS epimic.