Stories tagged with: bert and ernie

• Bert, Ernie and the culture wars

  by Lynde Langdon/WORLD , posted Monday, September 24, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- Sesame Street producers tried to set the record straight last week, asserting that puppet characters Bert and Ernie are not a gay couple.

  For generations, smirking teens have suggested that the roommates were more than friends, and former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman seemed to confirm it in an interview posted Sept. 16 on the website Queerty. He said he always imagined Bert and Ernie as a romantically involved couple when he was writing scenes for them. Read More