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Sesame Street Marries a King to a King
I know I had everybody excited for naught back in April, but this is for real, folks. In the skit below, a (mouse) queen tries to choose which of two kings she will marry. After giving up and asking to be blindfolded so she can choose arbitrarily, the kings take a look at each other and decide that maybe they’d be happier together. They have their hands ceremoniously joined by the singing narrator of the story and leave the scene to live happily ever after:
Okay fine, so it’s in Dutch. Yes, this is the Netherlands’ version of Sesame Street (Sesamstraat). After the country opened marriage to same-sex couples, muppeteers went to work creating skits to reflect that some of their young viewers might have same-sex parents, or might grow up to be gay themselves.
Thanks to my friend Mijk for sending me this link (and explaining the Dutch)!
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4 Comments
Tina commented on Jul 29 09 at 1:26 pmThat is seriously cute.
mumus commented on Jul 29 09 at 4:25 pmWill I live to see the day when something like this appears on American Sesame Street? I hope.
marlowe commented on Jul 30 09 at 9:43 amThanks for posting this! I look forward to the day something similar appears on US kids’ programming.
Luis commented on Jul 31 09 at 6:54 pmI hope Queen Marie won’t be alone for very long, the pour little mouse, but hurray for the Kings. In fact, it’s about time one of the crowned heads of Europe comes out, it’s not for lack of “pretenders”…
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