Monday 25 October 2010

Sesame Street: Brought To You By The Letters G, A and Y


"Sesame Workshop says it's not out to appeal to a gay audience but with such recent actions as a 'True Blood' parody, inviting openly gay guests like Wanda Sykes, and an interesting tweet by Bert, some are feeling the love..."
Melissa Maertz reports for the LA Times.
Looks like the (non) story will go viral; the media love nonsense like this.
You can speculate and joke about Tinky-Winky, Bert & Ernie or Spongebob Squarepants as much as you like - and you know they ain't gonna sue.
As ever, seeing Sesame Street as Queer Street all comes back to Bert & Ernie; they've been gay-rumoured for even longer than Tom Cruise and John Travolta have.
You can see the unhappy couple getting outed and facing up to their feelings for each other in Peter Short's slightly unsettling short film, Bertrand & Ernest here.
Enjoy!

EDIT: Legal notice, I don't mean to imply that Tom Cruise and John Travolta are a couple. Or muppets. Thank you.

3 comments:

  1. They look like they've been up for a week on crystal meth in that picture.

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  2. The Daily Telegraph liked this story - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8086890/Is-Bert-from-Sesame-Street-gay.html

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  3. So did The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/a-gay-icon-on-sesame-street-bert-comes-out-of-the-closet-after-31-years-2116461.html

    Has anyone seen an article on this that doesn't just recycle the same "signs"???

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