The news in brief:
Look, we don't want to wade in on the whole Gays versus Bakery debate. People should be able to buy a cake without prejudice. But at the same time, I can see why we shouldn't vilify an artist who turns down a commission that makes them uncomfortable.
Still, something about this story does bother us:
Bert and Ernie are not gay.
Or if they are, they certainly aren't gay with each other. Mostly because it's a show for pre-schoolers and nobody is actually boning anybody.
Sesame Street is probably the most progressive children's show ever made. It's tackled being mixed race (remember the monster that was half Honker and half Dinger?), death, divorce and in one of its foreign iterations, having HIV. It doesn't talk down and it doesn't hold back.
If Bert and Ernie were gay, they'd have had a wedding episode by now. (And not a gay wedding either, just a wedding, because Sesame Street doesn't create division where none needs to exist). Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch would gave been groomsmen and Count von Count would have performed the ceremony:
'One! One ring!'
'Two! Two rings!'
'Mwa ha ha ha!'
*flash of lightning*
Admit it. You just did the voice in your head.
It would have been amazing and a solid two-fingers up at the small-minded fucknuts of this world who still think that two people who love each other shouldn't get married because there's one less vagina (or one too many) than their own standards of morality can handle.
But they're not: They're two dudes who share a house, share a bedroom, (but not beds, despite what Internet tries to tell you,) and are best friends. It's a bromance.
I'm not so hot at baking but I can whip up a pretty neat Dumbledore cake, or a Willow and Tara if you like, or Chromedome and Rewind...
Reading the news so you don't have to...
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