Queer impressions of stories from (our) childhood

Traditional Czech family: Mom, dad, kids and a dog… or not? After all, many local fairy tales feature stepmothers or orphans. And that's not even counting the evening stories and other children's stories that make us wonder if at least one character was queer…

Pat and Mat

Mr. Pat and Mr. Mat are not two chess players, but neighbors-do-it-yourselfers who are not exactly twice as skilled... We don't know much about their sexual or romantic orientation, but it seems that they live happily alone - or rather next to each other? Maybe they are homoromantic, biromantic or panromantic asexuals who are comfortable with the neighborly model of living together. Or is their relationship purely platonic? Or are they just a bit of a lonely cis heterosexual men who spend their free time doing DIY? Unfortunately, these little guys don't talk, so we won't know the truth.

Four-leaf clover

The cartoon animal quartet from Třeskoprsk has the right queer vibes: they live together (as if the characters were poly?) and have directly suggestive names: Bobík, Fifinka, Myšpulín and Pinďa. On the other hand, their coexistence is far from the radical feminist idea of ​​a broken family: Bobík fights with Pinďa, Fifinka takes care of all the household chores and Pinďa is a loner who keeps to himself.

Bob and Bobek

"That's the hat of the magician Pokuston, and there are two rabbits living in it: Bob and Bobek. But you never want to get out of a warm hat."

The magician Pokuston's hat is a narrow top hat in which Bob and Bobek have to sleep, huddled together, so there might be some physical attraction between them - especially when the hat is nice and warm in the morning...

Spejbl and Hurvínek

Spejbl and Hurvínek have an interesting history. In the beginning, there was Spejbl himself, a puppet of an elderly man in a tailcoat, who was eventually joined by his son Hurvínek and his dog Žeryk. But where did Hurvínek come from? Shouldn't he have a mother somewhere...?

One theory was that Hurvínek was fathered by Spejbl with a sex worker (which would explain the substitution of K for H in Hurvínek's name), but the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre denied this report and declared Hurvínek's mother to be the linden tree from which he was carved . That Spejbl was a dendrophile...?

Over time, Mánička and Mrs. Kateřina joined this trio, and it didn't matter at all that there was no sight or hearing of Mánička's parents.

He and Hele

Jů and Hele are two "colleagues" from Studio Kamarak who address each other in the neuter gender. There's nothing to add, they're probably gender-neutral.

And which other characters do you think have queer vibes?