I'm not so sure about that. I remember having an argument with my dear old (long departed) Dad in the 80s because I said Jim Henson was probably gay. Dad was incensed, because he played golf with Jim Henson's dad (as if this means anything; but that is how that generation thought). I pointed out that I was not letting my offspring watch too much Sesame Street because all the lead characters were males, and the only female lead was Miss Piggy. The name alone is an insult; but the character was like a drag queen.
I know that Jim Henson was married and had children; but what could possibly have been his reason for such a line-up on the show, including that Bert and Ernie lived together? It just didn't smell right to me. RIP, Jim; but I don't expect he is rolling in his grave over this one.
To surmise that a puppeteer is gay based solely on the implied gender of his characters Is a little bit of a stretch. Most male ventriloquists have “male” dummies. Paul Winchell had Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, Edgar Bergan had Charlie McCarthy and Snerdly Snodgrass, and almost all of Terry Fator’s dummies are male, as are Jeff Dunham’s characters.
Then there’s Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Elmer Fudd, Wil E. Coyote, were all male characters, too.
The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis...all male characters too.
It’s true that gays are loud and absurd, but can’t start seeing every pairing of same-sex people as “couples”. Has fear of the gays and political correctness made us that paranoid?
Whether Jim Henson was gay is immaterial, as he is long-since dead. It
is whomever is running his company now that is defending gay marriage by attacking CFA. Any boycott toward the current owners for their attack on CFA is the point, not the gender of imaginary characters.
To be clear, I intend to fully boycott the Henson company, but based on their attack on CFA, not on puppet gender. Being ludicrous will not win the battle...leave ludicrous up to the gays.