Pretty misleading. This isn’t “PBS,” it’s one member station doing it to their local content.

PBS gives their members freedom. Can’t help it if some are conservatives or panicking over loss of local funding from their local conservative govt

God dammit, PBS, right before pride month? They already took your fucking money. Why should my trans ass be donating to make up for it?

As a Jew, I was exposed to a lot of Christmas movies and media with Christian values as a child. Guess what? Still Jewish.

Also Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard taught me lots of science. Guess what? Still failed chemistry and still dumb as fuck.

I'm going to need a list of every person that was turned LGBT+, by a song, tv show, video game, etc. Conservatives are such hypocrites and liars. You CAN'T turn someone gay. If you could, the whole fucking planet would be gay.

Fucking cowards.

I was at a confirmation to a boy a couple of days ago, where the uncle is gay. The uncle hadde a speech that started with "When [name] was in kindergarten, he said 'I want a boyfriend, like my uncle Tom has, because he's so happy'. Damn, that was funny. Especially since the boy is as straight today. There's NOTHING wrong with children being exposed to different people. Fuck the GOP and their hateful minds. Let people be people, you closeted bigots!

Why the fuck would PBS care anymore since the GOP is cutting all of their funding?

So.... watching fox news can make my trans and gay friends hetero and alter their gender? I'm doubtful.

Why PBS, WHY?

We used to get excited and sang along to Culture Club music videos when they came on TV. Never once wanted to dress like Boy George.

Can I complain too? Because the GOP is turning kids to suicide because they are having a miserable life for not being allowed who they are. You really have the mental capacity of a can of mountain dew if you think "gay" is an option, a choice, something which can change. The only thing that can change are the limited dumb fucks who believe in an imaginary guy in the clouds with super powers (which he only uses for crual things somehow) by stopping abusing others and forcing children into their expectations. It's literally child abuse what they are doing. And they are making the rules, instead of being trialed.

Do you want to know something? I never thought we'd be back to the old "If kids see queer people, they'll turn queer" arguments.

Honestly fucking stupid.

You think these hogs care that you removed the content? It's not about the content! They just hate public media! You can never conform to their standards because their standards are solely about privatisation.

With friends like these...

Is that also why they don’t like black people in movies? They don’t want them turning their kids black?

If media can turn someone gay than rationally the inverse should be true as well so why are there still gay people when the media is 99% non gay stuff?

Bert and Ernie tried to make me gay. And don’t even get me started on that Count guy. Like, is that seriously what he’s wearing?

Oh, the joys of being old! I remember the GWB years, when PBS was pressured into a Both Viewpoints era and suddenly they had "experts" extolling the virtues of Trickle Down Capitalism.

If you stand for something, like PBS has, it's always a terrible idea to cater to the opposite. Liberal law firms that settled with the Trump administration have found that out, Target is finding it out, and PBS might do, as well.

I want to get grumpy here and say that watching their edutainment documentary on ____ (fill in the blank queer subject because I don't remember the focus), that introduced me to Christine Jorgensen and had clips of her performing made my LIFE! I think they were from the Library of Congress or something, and who the hell knows if they even exist anymore. She did a cover of Welcome to my World that took the tune from a old crooner song to this upbeat fun and flirty jam and it was absolutely mesmerizing. That was just a ten second clip too, but it was so wonderful. I had another grumpy pants moment tonight when I talked about how happy people are post-transitioning and how frustrating it is to me that people can see transjoy and think "I want to smash that." I mean I have met so many transfolx who have this deep seated awful pain that pretty much saps the life from them until they get the right support they need. It's like night and day. I just don't get it. We don't recruit, even though we used to chant it to scare the straights. Really, we just make people more aware of the possibilities of who they could be if they want to be said way. Youth explores, I've known a LUG or three in my lifetime. I think exposure to a wide range of folks in media helps people. I know I was happy the first time I saw someone who looked like me on a TV, and it damn near took 25 years or so to do it. So yeah, it's important. I really hate this happened, but hopefully they've just archived them for later. You can't fuck with the bag in this world.

I've been predicting since Trump was re-elected that within four years, LGBT content will be purged from streaming services. Netflix and Disney will probably end up doing it before they're forced to.

Are these "erased" episodes available anywhere else? I wonder if they're archived anywhere. I'd be curious to see what all the fuss is about.