[donna]

"The Teletubbies also have a following among the gay community. Tinky Winky, who carts around a red handbag but speaks with a male voice, has become something of a gay icon."

- CNN, December 24, 1997 -

[yield 2 the right]

SpongeBob SquarePants is another...

[gondramB]

>>”The Teletubbies also have a following among the gay community. Tinky Winky, who carts around a red handbag but speaks with a male voice, has become something of a gay icon.”

- CNN, December 24, 1997 -<<

Interesting. I thought Jerry Falwell was the first to raise that issue but this is two years before his comments. It was not one his best moments.

>>Monday, 15 February, 1999, 12:13 GMT
‘Gay Tinky Winky bad for children’
Is the purple Tinky Winky a bad influence on children?
The innocent world of the Teletubbies is under attack from America’s religious right.

The Reverend Jerry Falwell, a former spokesman for America’s Moral Majority, has denounced the BBC TV children’s show. He says it does not provide a good role model for children because Tinky Winky is gay.

Cheerful Tinky Winky, the purple character with the triangular aerial on his head, carries a handbag - but apart from that seems much the same as his friends Laa-Laa, Dipsy and Po. <<