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Featuring Ernie and Bert snuggling in front of the TV, the art was intended to celebrate the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act that had been a bar to the rights of same-sex ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- 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 ...

Ex-Sesame Street Writer Says Bert and Ernie Are Gay as Show Insists They're Just 'Best Friends' Sunny day! As fans have suspected for years, it turns out the world's most beloved muppet roommates ...

Getty Image. 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 ...

Mark Saltzman, a scriptwriter for “Sesame Street” in the 1980s and ’90s, has revealed that he always imagined Bert and Ernie as “loving partners,” drawing on his own experience as a gay man.

The makers of "Sesame Street" say Bert and Ernie, the classic feuding Muppets who appeared on the popular children's television show, are not gay. The statement came Tuesday after former "Sesame ...

Entertainment; Thousands sign petition urging Bert and Ernie to get married on 'Sesame Street' Published: ; Aug. 11, 2011, 2:58 p.m.

Here are some choice excerpts: Michelle Ashton Ryan: It would be so awesome if bert and ernie got married. im 16 and i would totally start watching sesame street again if they did.

Ernie and Bert were best friends; so it was with Jim and Frank.” Oz tweeted Tuesday about Saltzman’s comments to Queerty and said “it’s fine that he feels they are” gay. “They’re not ...

(CBS4)-- It's been speculated about for years. Are Bert and Ernie a couple or just roommates? One former writer for the iconic children's show says the beloved 'Sesame Street' characters are, in ...