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We Shouldn’t Let The Blue’s Clues Episode Be Just Another Passing Cultural Outrage

Megan Basham
We Shouldn’t Let The Blue’s Clues Episode Be Just Another Passing Cultural Outrage
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To those not paying attention, a recent Blue’s Clues episode featuring a sing-along led by a drag queen was yet another entry in the growing trend of networks sneaking sly LGBTQ references into programming for children so young, they haven’t even entered kindergarten yet. Doc McStuffins has lesbian dollies. PBS’s Arthur has a gay teacher. Male celebrity RuPaul plays a female character on Bubble Guppies.

But the Blue’s Clues Pride parade was something else. In the midst of a culture war that the Right has been losing for decades, this was a blitz attack.

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