Are Same Street’s Bert & Ernie gay? A ntroversial history, explaed. - Vox

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A former wrer for the Muppets said he nsired Bert and Ernie to be gay — and Same Street quickly refuted his terpretatn

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SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY

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A former wrer for Same Street said a recent terview that he nsired Bert and Ernie to be gay — but the show rebutted this claim, sayg the puppets “do not have a sexual orientatn.

“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said.

’ But those two… you had characters that appealed to a gay dience.

THE BERT AND ERNIE GAY DEBATE HAS INSPIRED THE MOST HILAR 'SAME STREET' MEM

In a slew of tweets on Tuday, Frank Oz said Bert and Ernie aren't gay after a former "Same Street" wrer said the duo are a uple. * bert ernie gay meme *

It's fally time to fd out whether or not Bert and Ernie om Same Street are gay.

BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS

It all started this weekend when Same Street wrer Mark Saltzman told Queerty that Bert and Ernie were spired by his own relatnships as a gay man. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay.

FRANK OZ WEIGHS ON 'SAME STREET' WRER SAYG BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY

I DON'T CARE IF BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY I JUST WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY!!!!

If Bert and Ernie are not gay they're not gay but your exce n't be that they're puppets. don't matter if Bert and Ernie aren't gay but this reasong don't add are even llg out homophob.

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?

I love all the homophob upset about Bert & Ernie beg gay bee 's "unnatural" have no problem wh a 8ft 2 bird, a og who got a pig pregnant, & a green monster wh no visible nose livg a garbage n.

THE FIGHT OVER SAME STREET’S BERT AND ERNIE AS A GAY UPLE, EXPLAED

Y, ERNIE is gay but BERT is bi. Platonic or homosexual - this is a bop. Frank Oz is voice of dozens of puppets and muppets as one of Jim Henson's earlit llaborators — and now the storied puppeteer is lendg his voice to the bate over whether or not "Same Street" characters Bert and Ernie are gay.

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY? ‘SAME STREET’ WRER SAYS HIS COMMENTS WERE MISTERPRETED

Why the need to fe people as only gay?

There's much more to a human beg than jt straightns or gayns. "Director/producer/puppeteer Frank Oz pos for a portra at the "Muppet Guys Talkg - Secrets Behd the Show the Whole World Watched" at the 2017 SXSW Wkelmeyer / Getty Imag for SXSW fileOz ntued to go back-and-forth wh people rpondg to his tweet who asked why the lorful puppets uldn't be gay.

Bert and Ernie were created to be bt iends, and to teach young children that people n get along wh those who are very different om themselv, " the workshop said a statement emailed to NBC ntued to take to Twter, tellg followers he felt he uldn't ll Bert and Ernie gay bee his md wasn't asked why he felt the need to intify the puppets as "not gay, " Oz replied: "The same need I would feel if Bert were intified as a lebacker for the Colts.

WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE

Next time I would be very terted to know: If Bert and Ernie were ed gay, would they be different than they are now?

ARE BERT AND ERNIE A GAY UPLE? FALLY, THE ANSWER

In 1994, former Same Workshop head, Gary Knell, said that Bert and Ernie “are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. Many members of the gay muny voiced their tratn wh Same Workshop's refal to acknowledge a sexual relatnship between Bert and Ernie.

"And I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay].

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