It's Gonna Be Okay

Since this is primarily a Muppet blog, I wanted to take a moment to talk about Richard Hunt.

Richard Hunt was a gay man and a fantastic puppeteer who started working with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, and company in 1970 at age eighteen and joined the cast of Sesame Street two years later. While working with the Muppets, he originated the characters of Scooter, Beaker, Statler, Sweetums, and Wayne, but also became the primary performer of Janice and is responsible for the flower child personality she is now known for. He was also known to be a fantastic singer.

But maybe most importantly, he made so many people happy. According the book "Of Muppets and Men" by Christopher Finch, Hunt "seems to get more unadulterated pleasure from performing than anyone else in the organization. When he is not working on camera, he is apt to have Scooter or Beaker or Janice -- anyone -- on his arm for the purpose of entertaining... He makes the crew laugh, jokes with the guest star, clowns for the shop personnel. He is one of the chief reasons for the loose atmosphere that exists around Studio D despite the pressure and the slow pace that are endemic to television production."

Hunt died at age 41 due to AIDS complications. The Muppet Workshop made a panel for the NAMES Project AIDS quilt in his honor. The Richard Hunt Spirit Award is presented every year at the Sesame Street wrap party to the cast member that best honors Hunt's generosity and dedication on set.

Thing is, hospitals cannot feed us. We have both have a collection of severe, life threatening, cross-contact sensitive, allergies. We have been hospitalized many times over the years, and we are never ever fed full meals. We will be hospitalized for weeks. We need a lot of help right now preparing to take food to the hospital. We need allergy safe, preprepped or microwave meals and that is extremely costly. Right now, we expect to need $1,200 and we have gotten $131 to go towards this.

Anything helps with this. Dm me for proof or details. I had a post up for this but we stopped making any progress a couple days after it was up. My pride art below for the Images.

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