How quickly things change. It seems like only yesterday when Jerry Falwell was claiming that Tinky Winky was the gay Teletubby. Now we've gone from right-fringe nuttiness to left-fringe nuttiness, with a petition being circulated online to let Bert and Ernie go ahead and get married since they're obvious a gay couple. The petition is getting so much attention that PBS felt compelled to respond:
Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves.
Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets
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Bert and Ernie gay? No way! I have no children and have never seen the show, but I've seen pictures. One of them has a unibrow. A proper gay man would shave or wax it, or whatever it is people do to unibrows. Case closed.
But I still have my suspicions about Tinky-Wink.