By AFP
LONDON: Children’s TV present “Peppa Pig” now incorporates a lesbian couple amongst its much-loved forged of characters, in a improvement hailed by rights campaigners.
In an episode referred to as “Families” that aired on Britain’s Channel 5 on Tuesday, Penny Polar Bear tells Peppa about her two moms.
“One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti,” Penny says. “I love spaghetti.”
Robbie de Santos of LGBTQ rights charity Stonewall stated the same-sex household’s look in Peppatown was “fantastic”.
“Many of those who watch the show will have two mums or two dads themselves, and it will mean a lot to parents and children that their experiences are being represented on such an iconic children’s programme,” he instructed the BBC.
One Twitter consumer stated: “An autistic character in ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ and a kid with two mums in ‘Peppa Pig’… it’s been a good day for representation!”
“Thomas the Tank Engine”, one other iconic UK manufacturing additionally proven on Channel 5, is introducing the autistic Bruno the Brake Car later this month, in collaboration with autistic writers and campaigners.
On-screen homosexual illustration stays controversial in some quarters, nonetheless.
The big-budget Hollywood movies “Thor: Love and Thunder”, “Lightyear” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” have all attracted consideration from censors within the Middle East for that includes homosexual references.
And it’s not the primary time that Peppa Pig has attracted wider political commentary.
Last November, then British prime minister Boris Johnson misplaced his place in a speech, and extemporised a few latest go to to a Peppa theme park throughout a rambling part that additionally noticed him imitate an accelerating automotive.
LONDON: Children’s TV present “Peppa Pig” now incorporates a lesbian couple amongst its much-loved forged of characters, in a improvement hailed by rights campaigners.
In an episode referred to as “Families” that aired on Britain’s Channel 5 on Tuesday, Penny Polar Bear tells Peppa about her two moms.
“One mummy is a doctor and one mummy cooks spaghetti,” Penny says. “I love spaghetti.”
Robbie de Santos of LGBTQ rights charity Stonewall stated the same-sex household’s look in Peppatown was “fantastic”.
“Many of those who watch the show will have two mums or two dads themselves, and it will mean a lot to parents and children that their experiences are being represented on such an iconic children’s programme,” he instructed the BBC.
One Twitter consumer stated: “An autistic character in ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ and a kid with two mums in ‘Peppa Pig’… it’s been a good day for representation!”
“Thomas the Tank Engine”, one other iconic UK manufacturing additionally proven on Channel 5, is introducing the autistic Bruno the Brake Car later this month, in collaboration with autistic writers and campaigners.
On-screen homosexual illustration stays controversial in some quarters, nonetheless.
The big-budget Hollywood movies “Thor: Love and Thunder”, “Lightyear” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” have all attracted consideration from censors within the Middle East for that includes homosexual references.
And it’s not the primary time that Peppa Pig has attracted wider political commentary.
Last November, then British prime minister Boris Johnson misplaced his place in a speech, and extemporised a few latest go to to a Peppa theme park throughout a rambling part that additionally noticed him imitate an accelerating automotive.
