Yahoo

Sesame Street Should Have Let Bert and Ernie Be Gay, and Here’s Why

Why, Sesame Street? Why? After longtime staffer Mark Saltzman told Queerty that he’d always written Bert and Ernie as gay, the venerable educational show for kids didn’t respond, “Of course they’re a ...
Houston Chronicle

Let Bert and Ernie teach kids ABCs, save LGBTQ for later. [Opinion]

Bert and Ernie are not gay. That I even have to say this is the problem, not the actual fact that they aren’t. This week, long-time Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman revealed that he wrote Bert and ...
TV Guide

Sesame Street Writer Says Bert and Ernie Are Gay, Sesame Workshop Disagrees

"As we have always said, Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they ...
CBS News

Former 'Sesame Street' Writer Says Bert And Ernie Are Gay Couple; Show Denies

(CBS Local/CBSLA) — A former "Sesame Street" writer has revealed that Bert and Ernie are gay. Mark Saltzman, who wrote scripts and songs on "Sesame Street" for 15 years beginning in 1984, told Queerty ...
Yahoo

Bert & Ernie Are Still Not Gay, Say Sesame Workshop & Frank Oz

“I created Bert,” says Frank Oz. “I know what and who he is.” And no, he isn’t gay. “I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were,” Saltzman said when asked ...
Glamour

Please, Just Let Bert and Ernie Be Gay

So when Mark Saltzman, a writer who worked on Bert and Ernie for years, told Queerty this week they're gay, no one was really surprised. If anything, people were elated the truth was finally confirmed ...
Uproxx

A ‘Sesame Street’ Writer Has Definitively Ended Decades Of Rumors About Bert And Ernie’s Relationship

Bert and Ernie live together, play together, and sing together, but at no point during the 48-season run of Sesame Street has the obvious been confirmed. In a recent interview with Queerty, though, ...
CBS News

Group Pushes To 'Let Bert And Ernie Get Married' On Sesame Street

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Will the Children's Television Workshop give way to same-sex puppet love? An online campaign is calling for the producers of TV's "Sesame Street" to allow characters Bert and Ernie ...
Los Angeles Times

Are Ernie and Bert gay? Who gets to say?

If you had the misfortune to be on the Internet this week — and who among us was not, alas? – then you’ll know there was a bit of excitement around the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie. In an ...
Kansas City Star

Bert and Ernie were written as a ‘loving couple,’ former ‘Sesame Street’ writer says

Mark Saltzman, a writer who won seven Emmys for his work on “Sesame Street,” tells Queerty magazine that he couldn’t help but write Ernie and Bert as “a loving couple” because that reflected his ...
Mercury News

‘Sesame Street’ exec provides an answer — or two — on whether Bert and Ernie are gay

Don’t ask, don’t tell? Nah. The folks who bring us “Sesame Street” say ask away. Ask as many people as you want to ask if longtime roommates Bert and Ernie are gay. The answer could be yes, or it ...