Sesame street ernie and bert gay
"Sesame Street's" iconic characters Bert and Ernie have been friends for decades, but the longtime debate over their bond just took a new turn. A former writer on the show said in comments published last weekend he considered the two to be a gay couple and based their affair on his retain. The organization behind "Sesame Street" said Tuesday that Bert and Ernie are simply best friends.
Bert and Ernie were created in , becoming two of the most distinguishable faces on "Sesame Street" and a symbol for friendship for young audiences around the planet. For years, their relationship has been scrutinized and now a former journalist for the performance is adding more fuel to the idea that Bert and Ernie are gay.
In an interview with the LGBTQ website "Queerty," Mark Saltzman who wrote for "Sesame Street" for more than 13 years starting in said Bert and Ernie mirrored the bond he had with his partner Arnie.
"I don't ponder I'd know how else to document them, but as a loving couple," he said. "That's what I had in my animation, a Bert and Ernie relationship. How could it not permeate?"
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The Sesame Highway Workshop also released a remark in that stated: "Bert and Ernie are finest friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be fine 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 stay puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation."
A New Yorker cover, drawn by Jack Hunter, disagreed. Featuring Ernie and Bert snuggling in front of the TV, the art was intended to mark the Supreme Court impressive down the Defense of Marriage Act that had been a bar to the rights of gay couples since Some were more thrilled than others. Slate at the moment declared the cover "a terrible way to commemorate a major civil rights victory."
Regardless, Bert and Ernie have been used as shorthand for same-sex marriage before same-sex marriage was even legal. In , Family Guy blended Sesame Street with a police procedural, and t
Sesame Workshop says Bert and Ernie are 'best friends' and not gay
The organisation behind Sesame Road has denied co-habiting duo, Bert and Ernie, are gay, following comments by one of the show's writers.
Mark Saltzman said his writing about the room-mating couple was based on his relationship with movie editor Arnold Glassman.
Sesame Workshop then issued a expression saying the pair "do not have a sexual orientation".
Bert and Ernie may look human, but the pair "remain puppets", it said.
"They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves."
It broadly repeats past statements the non-profit organisation has made about the stripy-clothed duo when questions arose about their relationship.
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Bert and Ernie are indeed a gay couple, 'Sesame Street' author claims
Iconic "Sesame Street" puppets Bert and Ernie are a couple, according to a former scribe for the show.
In an exclusive interview with with blog "Queerty," Mark Saltzman said he felt that when he was writing Bert and Ernie, he was writing them as a couple and basing their interactions on his own experiences.
"I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were," Saltzman told Queerty. "I didn’t own any other way to contextualize them. The other thing was, more than one person referred to Arnie and I as 'Bert and Ernie.'"
However, Sesame Workshop, which produces the show, denies the pair are together, saying they have no sexual orientation but are best friends.
“As we have always said, Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be excellent 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 Mup