[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Bert and Ernie, politics, Brazil, ALOT, queer literature

[rfmcdonald]

• Hornet Stories notes that Bert and Ernie co-creator Frank Oz does seem, in recent statements, to imagine seeing the pair of Sesame Street Muppets as potentially gay.


• Them suggests that LGBTQ political candidates in the US are increasingly gaining from being out, because their outness speaks to their honesty.


• This New York Times article takes a look at the controversy and successes surrounding a touring "queer museum" in Brazil.


• Daily Xtra reports on the important work being down by the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony in British Columbia in preserving lesbian oral history.


• At Quill and Quire, Mike Miksche interviews three queer writers in Canada who recently won mainstream awards to see their thoughts about the mainstreaming of queer lit.