Last Updated on June 15, 2023
The Sesame Street children’s show, which is funded by the US taxpayers through PBS, wished a “Happy Pride Month” to its fans, who are presumably children, in a tweet that featured the “progress pride flag” and claimed that homosexual and transgender lifestyles represent “freedom” and “authentic self-expression.”
“On our Street, we celebrate inclusion, belonging, and freedom of authentic self-expression,” the tweet from the government-funded children’s show account reads. “Happy #PrideMonth to all people in our neighborhoods!” it went on, followed by heart emojis following the color scheme of the “progress pride flag,” representing not just homosexuality but transgenderism and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Nationally-syndicated TV news host and outspoken defender of children Stew Peters blasted Sesame Street in a tweet of his own, telling his follower “Do not watch Sesame Street,” slamming their peddling of a homosexual lifestyle to the toddlers and other small children who watch the Sesame Street program.
Sesame Street’s promotion of “pride month” and LGBTism to small children came as no surprise to some Twitter users, who pointed out that the longtime Sesame Street puppeteer of the show’s famed Elmo character is an openly gay man who’s been widely accused of child sex offenses and predatory sexual behavior towards young boys.
Kevin Clash, who puppeteered Elmo from 1985 to 2012, resigned after he was accused of a long-term sexual grooming relationship with a teenage boy, who was a young adult at the time that the accusations were made.
Clash admitted to a relationship with the young man, though claimed both parties were adults at the time.
The accusation, which was later recanted, led to Clash publicly coming out of the closet, stating that “I am a gay man. I have never been ashamed of this or tried to hide it.”
Regardless of the back and forth regarding the November 2012 accusations, Clash was later accused of preying on more minors, and three cases were brought against him in court, but Clash was saved from conviction by the statute of limitations.
