The rainbow connection
Subtitle: Richard Hunt, gay Muppeteer
By: Jessica Max Stein
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Long Walk Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Gay men on television; Puppeteers; Biography; AIDS (Disease) and the arts; Muppet show (Television program)
Description: Brooklyn teacher Jessica Max Stein writes about queerness on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street and provides an extensive biography about the puppeteer Richard Hunt, who died of AIDS in 1992. The zine includes a discussion of the rainbow as a queer symbol, writing about Miss Piggy as a "drag queen diva," and profiles of female Muppeteers. There are photos and lyrics from the show, and endnotes.
Notes: Limited run of 100 copies.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Letter to readers --; title: The pre-muppet years  --; title: Spotlight: Jane Henson --; title: Sesame Street  --; title: Spotlight: Fran Brill --; title: The Muppet Show  --; title: Spotlight: Eren Ozker  --; title: Spotlight: Kathryn Mullen  --; title: Spotlight: Louise Gold  --; title: Fraggle Rock  --; title: Spotlight: Karen Prell  --; title: Gone but not forgotten  --; title: Endnotes --