PBS kids' show Sesame Street continues sexual messaging with pride post

Michie · Thursday at 10:28 AM

One of TV’s longest-running children's shows is facing backlash for once again linking its puppets to homosexuality on social media.

Sesame Street shared a post on social media Tuesday, which read: “Happy Pride Month from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the [gay and lesbian] members of our community.”

The post also included an image featuring different rainbow-colored furs resembling puppet characters from Sesame Street, such as Elmo, Cookie Monster and others.

Primarily geared toward toddlers, the PBS series — which was acquired last year by Netflix — drew the ire of pastors and other Evangelical groups on social media, including Turning Point USA, which criticized Sesame Street for its pro-LGBT messaging.

“This is literally a show meant for children,” TPUSA wrote on X.

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PBS kids' show Sesame Street continues sexual messaging with pride post

One of TV s longest-running children s shows is facing backlash for once again linking its puppets to homosexuality on social media

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Delvianna · Thursday at 10:44 AM

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I am so disgusted with society.

RileyG · Thursday at 10:54 AM

Michie said:
One of TV’s longest-running children's shows is facing backlash for once again linking its puppets to homosexuality on social media.

Sesame Street shared a post on social media Tuesday, which read: “Happy Pride Month from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the [gay and lesbian] members of our community.”

The post also included an image featuring different rainbow-colored furs resembling puppet characters from Sesame Street, such as Elmo, Cookie Monster and others.

Primarily geared toward toddlers, the PBS series — which was acquired last year by Netflix — drew the ire of pastors and other Evangelical groups on social media, including Turning Point USA, which criticized Sesame Street for its pro-LGBT messaging.

“This is literally a show meant for children,” TPUSA wrote on X.

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PBS kids' show Sesame Street continues sexual messaging with pride post

One of TV s longest-running children s shows is facing backlash for once again linking its puppets to homosexuality on social media

www.christianpost.com

Not surprising, unfortunately. It's "Pride" Month after all. *shrug*

RileyG · Thursday at 10:55 AM

Delvianna said:
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I am so disgusted with society.

Be in the world, but not of the world as Jesus would say.

Servus · Thursday at 1:39 PM

Time to pull the plug.

iluvatar5150 · Thursday at 3:00 PM

Sesame Street has always been "woke" in its overt push for diversity and inclusiveness and helping children understand, celebrate, and bridge the differences between them. Ultimately, it's about being kind to each other. This post of theirs is no different.

When was the last time a mainstream Christian organization tried to encourage folks to just be kind to each other?

Yarddog · Thursday at 6:12 PM

Michie said:
One of TV’s longest-running children's shows is facing backlash for once again linking its puppets to homosexuality on social media.

Sesame Street shared a post on social media Tuesday, which read: “Happy Pride Month from Sesame Street! Join us in celebrating and uplifting the [gay and lesbian] members of our community.”

The post also included an image featuring different rainbow-colored furs resembling puppet characters from Sesame Street, such as Elmo, Cookie Monster and others.

Primarily geared toward toddlers, the PBS series — which was acquired last year by Netflix — drew the ire of pastors and other Evangelical groups on social media, including Turning Point USA, which criticized Sesame Street for its pro-LGBT messaging.

“This is literally a show meant for children,” TPUSA wrote on X.

Continued below.

PBS kids' show Sesame Street continues sexual messaging with pride post

One of TV s longest-running children s shows is facing backlash for once again linking its puppets to homosexuality on social media

www.christianpost.com

It's a secular show in a secular nation.

Tuur · Thursday at 7:10 PM

iluvatar5150 said:
Sesame Street has always been "woke" in its overt push for diversity and inclusiveness and helping children understand, celebrate, and bridge the differences between them. Ultimately, it's about being kind to each other. This post of theirs is no different.

When was the last time a mainstream Christian organization tried to encourage folks to just be kind to each other?

So when will they celebrate MAGA?

Tuur · Thursday at 7:12 PM

Servus said:
Time to pull the plug.

It's pulled. It's privately funded now.

The key thing is just because PBS broadcasts it doesn't mean anyone has to watch it.

iluvatar5150 · Thursday at 7:38 PM

Tuur said:
So when will they celebrate MAGA?

I don't know, but it probably won't be before MAGA stops fueling itself with hate.

Tuur · Thursday at 8:05 PM

iluvatar5150 said:
I don't know, but it probably won't be before MAGA stops fueling itself with hate.

As compared to the love Democrats have shown them by calling them fascists and Nazis, though whether this will continue since the Democrat with the totenkopf tattoo be the a nominee for US Senator in Maine remains to be seen.

Servus · Thursday at 8:33 PM

iluvatar5150 said:
I don't know, but it probably won't be before MAGA stops fueling itself with hate.

What MAGA hates, hates MAGA just as much.

iluvatar5150 · Thursday at 9:08 PM

Tuur said:
As compared to the love Democrats have shown them by calling them fascists and Nazis

The Nazi stuff is (mostly) too far, but they do seem to be hellbent on heading towards a textbook definition of fascism.

Regardless, the question was about when Sesame Street will celebrate MAGA. It wasn't ways in which MAGA or the Democratic party are better or worse than each other. It's hard to argue that the movement isn't fueled by a large amount of hate and animosity and that it doesn't frequently adopt a posture of attacking The Other, which is antithetical to one of Sesame Street's core messages.

RileyG · Thursday at 9:41 PM

iluvatar5150 said:
Sesame Street has always been "woke" in its overt push for diversity and inclusiveness and helping children understand, celebrate, and bridge the differences between them. Ultimately, it's about being kind to each other. This post of theirs is no different.

When was the last time a mainstream Christian organization tried to encourage folks to just be kind to each other?

Fair enough. I’m definitely following.

Christians are called to love one another, but this will go into a theological debate which is beyond the scope of this thread.

Peace

RileyG · Thursday at 9:42 PM

Yarddog said:
It's a secular show in a secular nation.

Yup! That’s also very true.

iluvatar5150 · Thursday at 10:22 PM

RileyG said:
Fair enough. I’m definitely following.

Christians are called to love one another, but this will go into a theological debate which is beyond the scope of this thread.

Peace

We don't have to get into a theological discussion about what constitutes "love." I think we can all agree that it, at a minimum, includes being kind and civil to each other, which Sesame Street has done since the very beginning (and caught flak from the Right for it for just as long).

Tuur · 2026-06-05T05:45:38-0500

iluvatar5150 said:
The Nazi stuff is (mostly) too far, but they do seem to be hellbent on heading towards a textbook definition of fascism.

Regardless, the question was about when Sesame Street will celebrate MAGA. It wasn't ways in which MAGA or the Democratic party are better or worse than each other. It's hard to argue that the movement isn't fueled by a large amount of hate and animosity and that it doesn't frequently adopt a posture of attacking The Other, which is antithetical to one of Sesame Street's core messages.

Verses long-time Democrat support for those who say "Kill the crackers?" A check to verify a recent incident turned up Democrat support for those who said it going back to at least 2010 (The Tribune, Charlottesville, NC, July 15, 2010). PBS diversity is to include everyone that thinks like they do.

2PhiloVoid · 2026-06-05T05:49:30-0500

iluvatar5150 said:
Sesame Street has always been "woke" in its overt push for diversity and inclusiveness and helping children understand, celebrate, and bridge the differences between them. Ultimately, it's about being kind to each other. This post of theirs is no different.

When was the last time a mainstream Christian organization tried to encourage folks to just be kind to each other?

I think there is a critical, analytic divide between 'celebration' on the one hand and 'kindness and compassion' on the other. These concepts are not necessarily theologically compatible in all cases where Christianity is being considered, and I think it's a bit much to cite Sesame Street as having "always been woke." Let's not be anachronistic here in our appraisals of Sesame Street by insisting that what it is now is what it always has been.

Influence of Sesame Street - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As Christians, we probably need to maintain a sense of discernment in these matters, especially where children are involved in various claims of an educational process.

Tuur · 2026-06-05T05:56:34-0500

iluvatar5150 said:
We don't have to get into a theological discussion about what constitutes "love." I think we can all agree that it, at a minimum, includes being kind and civil to each other, which Sesame Street has done since the very beginning (and caught flak from the Right for it for just as long).

Ah, no. From the beginning, Sesame Street was seen as a teaching aid back when PBS was still pretending to be "educational" TV and not "Britbox Lite." That came along after Mister Rogers Neighborhood, which no one had a problem with. The problem is when PBS moved to taxpayer funded propaganda. In the case of Sesame Street, it's the message that deviancy is normal. Imagine the The Count as he tallies up DEI accepted genders, which I don't think happened but wouldn't be surprised if it did.

iluvatar5150 · 2026-06-05T07:01:07-0500

Tuur said:
Verses long-time Democrat support for those who say "Kill the crackers?" A check to verify a recent incident turned up Democrat support for those who said it going back to at least 2010 (The Tribune, Charlottesville, NC, July 15, 2010). PBS diversity is to include everyone that thinks like they do.

Again with the whataboutism. The question wasn't about Democrats, whom I don't have much interest in defending.

If you want to ask me to compare and contrast the two groups, fine. But that wasn't what you asked.

2PhiloVoid said:
I think there is a critical, analytic divide between 'celebration' on the one hand and 'kindness and compassion' on the other. These concepts are not necessarily theologically compatible in all cases where Christianity is being considered, and I think it's a bit much to cite Sesame Street as having "always been woke." Let's not be anachronistic here in our appraisals of Sesame Street by insisting that what it is now is what it always has been.

Influence of Sesame Street - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As Christians, we probably need to maintain a sense of discernment in these matters, especially where children are involved in various claims of an educational process.

Tuur said:
Ah, no. From the beginning, Sesame Street was seen as a teaching aid back when PBS was still pretending to be "educational" TV and not "Britbox Lite." That came along after Mister Rogers Neighborhood, which no one had a problem with. The problem is when PBS moved to taxpayer funded propaganda. In the case of Sesame Street, it's the message that deviancy is normal. Imagine the The Count as he tallies up DEI accepted genders, which I don't think happened but wouldn't be surprised if it did.

No, they've always been "woke." One of their earliest episodes in 1969 had Grover learning how to participate in civil disobedience and, in 1970, the state of Mississippi tried to ban the show because of its racially diverse cast.

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