https://mashable.com/article/sesame-street-bert-ernie-gay/?europe=true
The queer fan community have long known that Bert and Ernie were gay Muppets. It's just taken a little bit longer for the rest of the world to catch up.
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:
"And Arnie as a film editor—if you thought of Bert with a job in the world, wouldn’t that be perfect? Bert with his paper clips and organization? And I was the jokester. So it was the Bert & Ernie relationship, and I was already with Arnie when I came to Sesame Street. So I don’t think I’d know how else to write them, but as a loving couple. I wrote sketches … Arnie’s OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that’s the Bert & Ernie dynamic," Satlzman said.
Justice, served. Twitter seems to think so too:
Regardless of their answers, we should all be so happy for their love.
The queer fan community have long known that Bert and Ernie were gay Muppets. It's just taken a little bit longer for the rest of the world to catch up.
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:
"And Arnie as a film editor—if you thought of Bert with a job in the world, wouldn’t that be perfect? Bert with his paper clips and organization? And I was the jokester. So it was the Bert & Ernie relationship, and I was already with Arnie when I came to Sesame Street. So I don’t think I’d know how else to write them, but as a loving couple. I wrote sketches … Arnie’s OCD would create friction with how chaotic I was. And that’s the Bert & Ernie dynamic," Satlzman said.
Justice, served. Twitter seems to think so too:
However, I have more questions for Bert and Ernie: Are they still monogamous after all these years? Do they have to attend couple's therapy to manage Bert's anal retentiveness? Did any of them ever have a thing with Big Bird?
Deborah Temkin, Ph.D
✔@DrDebTemkin
The fact that it’s confirmed that Bert and Ernie are in fact based on a real life couple just makes me smile from ear to ear https://www.queerty.com/exclusive-bert-ernie-couple-finally-answer-20180916 … #lgbtq
Klaudia Amenábar // let a blind actress play Toph@kaludiasays
Bert and Ernie were just confirmed gay and Snuffy was a closeted depressed gay how was this not the #1 trending news story today this is the most important cultural event of our time
Jesse Kelly®
✔@JesseKellyDC
Bert is the only gay man in history with bad eyebrows.
Regardless of their answers, we should all be so happy for their love.
