‘Sesame Street’ celebrates inclusion with episode featuring 2 gay dads

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New York Daily News

“Sesame Street” featured two gay dads and their daughter in a groundbreaking episode celebrating diversity and inclusion. In an episode entitled “Family Day,” which premiered last week on HBO Max and YouTube, the beloved children’s show has a scene in which Nina (Suki Lopez) introduces her brother Dave (Chris Costa), his husband Frank (Alex Weisman), and their daughter Mia (Olivia Perez) to Elmo and his friends. “We are here!,” the happy family says as they join the gang, in perhaps a nod to a pro-equality chant popularized in the early ’90s, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” LGBTQ ri…

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