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'Sesame Street' Writer Finally Confirms Those Bert and Ernie Rumors

In case you've been losing sleep over this since your childhood ... - @TheresaRockFace

'The people at Sesame Street have publicly denied the Muppets were gay on several occasions, usually rehashing this prepared statement that seems to have come in handy on numerous occasions:

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 are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.'- Distractify

He says the 'Sesame' duo is a reflection of his own same-sex relationship and not about pushing an agenda. 

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NOW THIS CAME OUT (No Pun Intended)

(more from distractify) 'In an interview with Queerty, one of Sesame Street's original writers, Mark Saltzman, finally confirmed the rumors. According to Saltzman, Bert and Ernie aren't just gay. He thinks of them as a "loving couple."

"I remember one time that a column from The San Francisco Chronicle, a preschooler in the city turned to mom and asked 'are Bert & Ernie lovers?'" Saltzman told Queerty. "And that got passed around, and everyone had their chuckle and went back to it. And I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert & Ernie, they were. I didn’t have any other way to contextualize them. The other thing was, more than one person referred to Arnie [Saltzman's partner at the time] & I as “Bert & Ernie.”

Of course Bert and Ernie are gay. No one wants to hang around their roommate that much, regardless of how good they are at chess. How could Ernie put up with Bert's pigeons if he didn't love him in that way?

Saltzman explained how his own same-sex relationship became a model for Bert & Ernie — even if the rest of the cast wasn't aware of the underlying queer dynamics:' 

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SO, LET'S CALL THEM PANSEXUALS TAKE A TEQUILA SHOT IN HONOR OF LOVE! - @TheresaRockFace


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