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For others, it was a sweet victory. And the New Yorker cartoon very much captures that sense of sweetness by the addition of Bert and Ernie, the inseparable odd couple from Sesame Street who with ...

Muslim printers could be forced to produce cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed ... an order to make a cake featuring the characters Bert and Ernie arm in arm under the slogan ‘support gay marriage ...

Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe has the ... So when Sesame Street released a press statement alluding to Bert and Ernie’s sexuality, two questions arise. First: “Wait, Bert and Ernie ...

Did the New Yorker just out Bert and Ernie? Over the years ... was at the center of major controversy when an episode of the cartoon “Postcards From Buster” featured children with lesbian ...

ran an exclusive interview with a gay former writer for Sesame Street who said he wrote the characters Bert and Ernie as if they were a gay couple. From Stephen Colbert to a cartoon in the New ...

Sesame Street's odd couple have been cast in a larger drama about equal marriage, says Sarah Dunant.