Kermit gay

And it took time to feel ready to share my news with the world but when I was, was the world ready for me? 

Kermit and Fozzie meet many other new friends along the way. And that message is important enough to be reprised at the end.

Wherever you are, I love you,” Martin told fans at the top of the pop ballad. I identify with this so much. From a literal point of view Gonzo is recalling his moment in the sky from earlier, but he’s also singing of the feeling of freedom he found there and how it can also be found through friendship, love and acceptance. More real, yet more fantastical.

Fraggle Rock, a creation of Henson and Hunt, even features an episode titled “Gone But Not Forgotten” in its final season where Wembley makes a new friend he news will die soon. As the movie’s opening anthem its job is to set out the stall of what the film is going to be about. I’ve always identified with Kermit and others have commented on our similarities – it’s the ping pong ball eyes I think – and watching this film since I came out I can see my story reflected so much.

Then this story is about you. If anyone at Disney is reading this can we get Piggy to sing it on the next Pride special? Like Sesame Street, The Muppet Show became a place of acceptance and humor for everyone.

And The Muppets never stopped being a group that openly welcomed LGBTQ+ creatives and uplifted queer characters. They’d appeared on a local TV station in Washington DC, then in a few commercials, and occasionally on late-night shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Dean, and others.

And like Gonzo, my journey was and still is full of crosswinds that blow me off course, but I wouldn’t trade my time in the air for anything. 

Despite that sky-based interlude, Kermit can’t deny his true feelings for long and on his date with Piggy we see it’s very much she who takes the lead. It’s telling that while he’s happy for Fozzie and Gonzo to join him on his trip, he has no intention of asking Piggy.

It’s beautiful.

And then Sweetums tears through the screen and causes mayhem, and if that’s not a metaphor for life then I don’t know what is, quite frankly. 

Of course, not everyone’s coming out story is the same. In the 1970s, he was one of the most famous gay men in the world … whose face nobody recognized.

The message here is find your rainbow connection and the world will begin to make sense. 

At this point Kermit is happy enjoying the swamp, but he knows that something is missing. This isn’t about making people happy or even about being gay, straight, bi, trans or anywhere within that rainbow. They were starting to take a more recognizable shape when Sesame Street debuted in the late '60s — Kermit was, at last, a frog, rather than a vaguely defined creature.

Richard’s contribution was to take Jim’s kind, wholesome comedy and inject a more zany absurdity.

I remember when this episode aired, and I remember thinking about it three years later when Jim Henson passed away — and two years after that, when Richard died of AIDS-related complications.

In reading about Richard’s life and watching his performances, I felt myself careening between emotions — sometimes very sad, sometimes very angry that he was just 40 years old when he was killed by America’s long, cruel inaction on HIV.

But I also found myself returning to joy and wonderment and optimism as I watched him perform. Kermit appeared in the “Can’t Cancel Pride” streamed special during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in a 2021 interview with Kryss Shane, long-time Muppets performer Bill Barretta explained that the well-loved Muppet Howard Tubman is gay and that he based the character on his real-life LGBTQ+ friends in order to avoid making him a stereotype, which some have argued is best represented by Uncle Deadly.

Be who you want to be.