A former writer for Sesame Street said in a recent interview that he considered Bert and Ernie to be gay — but the show rebutted this claim, saying the puppets “do not have a sexual ...

Bert and Ernie were loaded with queer subtext from the ... “Thinking about being out at that time, it’s hard to extricate that from living in the middle of an epidemic,” he told Reddish.

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At the time, Sesame Street had released a statement in which it referred to Bert and Ernie as “best friends” that were “created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with ...

MANILA, Philippines — Former "Sesame Street" writer Mark Saltzman confirmed that the famous characters Bert and Ernie in the iconic kids TV series are a gay couple. In an interview with LGBTQ ...