Gay teletubby meme

Not so much. M subscribers in the HistoryMemes community. Today, is Tinky Winky still a gay icon? “He is purple—the gay pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle—the gay pride symbol. Fearful of change, the crank barons of old morality gritted their teeth, locked their knees, and refused to jump forward into the 21st century.

That antenna stuck on its head was shaped in a triangle — a gay pride symbol. A news segment by Jim Avila of NBC in Chicago reporting on the religious right ringing the alarm bells about, what they perceived to be a homosexual role model in a purple 'Teletubby' named Tinky.

Want more Junkee in your life? At this point, The Teletubbies was only two years old as a program, so about the same age as its intended audience. So, he decided to yank Tinky Winky from his alleged closet and out him in the National Liberty Journal — a promotional rag for the university he founded.

Falwell felt bilious. In Berkley, the purple dumpling was invited to lead a parade. Sign up to our newsletterand follow us on Instagram and Facebook so you always know where to find us. Superstitions festered, paranoias spawned.

Everyone knew he was behind it. His followers made the sign of the cross and dreamed about burning all Teletubbies at the stake. The evidence for sexual perversion was indisputable. As the world got ready to heave six billion souls into the next millennium, mad prophets coated the airwaves with spittle and spleen, enraptured by their various manifestos of doom.

Beamed straight into the minds of American babes! But really kicked the season off. Oh, how the land of David Bowie covertly extends its dominion of sin! It looks like the series is embracing the year-old controversy in a most rainbow-hued way: by launching the official Teletubbies Pride Collection, just ahead of June.

Falwell stewed. On our American screens!

Meme by Gay Teletubby

But Falwell saw something off about Tinky Winky, the largest pal in Teletubbyland. And, as if any more proof needed to be mounted, there was the red purse Tinky Winky was constantly clutching. The Teletubby was purple, for one. Side note: Liberty University is today one of the largest Christian universities in the world.

A debauched munchkin! With an irony that now looks as inevitable as it does sweet, progressives took his condemnation as a cue and embraced TW as a gay icon. A place for history memes. Teletubbies is a British children's television series which features four main brightly colored creatures (Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po) each with a distinct antenna and television screen abdomen.

The christofascist took one look at Tinky Winky on morning TV and saw the face of Sodom: swaddled in a felted purple fat suit. Oh, foul British import!