Bert and Ernie aren't gay. Few things piss me off more.
There are plenty of loveable gay couples, why try and steal a childhood innocent thing like B&E?
Bert and Ernie aren't gay. Few things piss me off more.
There are plenty of loveable gay couples, why try and steal a childhood innocent thing like B&E?
Bert and Ernie aren't gay. Few things piss me off more.
There are plenty of loveable gay couples, why try and steal a childhood innocent thing like B&E?
If you think Sesame Street is a "childhood innocent" thing and not a very, very clever and very politically loaded show that broached a huge number of controversial issues - then, well ... I don't know what to tell you.
There's nothing innocent or accidental about anything ever portrayed on Sesame Street. Ever.
Can the New Yorker just use a drawing of Bert and Ernie without permission from the owners of the characters?
Should have used Peppermint Patty and Marcie
I'm not saying that Bert and Ernie are or are not gay BUT the image in that cover is the perfect capture of the equality movement.
The modern equality movement is considered to have begun with the Stonewall Riots in NYC June 28, 1969. Yes, there were other events prior but the riots are considered the start of the modern era. Sesame Street premiered November 10, 1969 and was reflective of a major metropolitan urban setting with a wide array of individuals. Bert and Ernie, both original characters, were set to live together in a basement apartment in a time when a gay couple on television (let alone a children's show) would be the end all. Like most couples of the time (and many still today), they were invisible in plain sight. Fast forward to today, and those same couples can now be officially recognized which is what the image is capturing.
Them being gay wouldn't "steal childhood innocence." It's just that the implication that two men who live together and are good friends HAVE to be gay that is stupid and backwards.
If you think Sesame Street is a "childhood innocent" thing and not a very, very clever and very politically loaded show that broached a huge number of controversial issues - then, well ... I don't know what to tell you.
There's nothing innocent or accidental about anything ever portrayed on Sesame Street. Ever.