For years, dienc have bated whether Bert and Ernie are Same Street's rint gay uple. Here's why 's such a phenomenon.
Contents:
- SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
- BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
- FRANK OZ WEIGHS ON 'SAME STREET' WRER SAYG BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
- ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY? ‘SAME STREET’ WRER SAYS HIS COMMENTS WERE MISTERPRETED
- ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?
- WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
A former wrer for the Muppets said he nsired Bert and Ernie to be gay — and Same Street quickly refuted his terpretatn * gay bert and ernie family guy *
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.
BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
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For years, dienc have bated whether Bert and Ernie are Same Street's rint gay uple. But their iendship has been the subject of much bate over the years and many speculated that the two are fact a gay uple. Why People Thk Bert and Ernie Are a Gay Couple.
The mors led to a number of public sentments om Same Workshop statg that they are not a gay uple, but are simply bt iends. Mark Saltzman, ex-wrer for Same Street, alleged that Bert and Ernie were based on his timate gay relatnship wh a worker — but should be noted that Saltzman is not the creator of Bert and Ernie. Another reason the bate has gone on so long is om the unrlyg homophobia that l our society and, up until recently, domated the media.
People fear what they don't unrstand, and many the LGBTQ+ muny believe that those who ny that Bert and Ernie may be a uple are beg homophobic, takg issue wh the implied queerns.
FRANK OZ WEIGHS ON 'SAME STREET' WRER SAYG BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY
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. * gay bert and ernie family guy *
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. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay. Why the need to fe people as only gay?
ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY? ‘SAME STREET’ WRER SAYS HIS COMMENTS WERE MISTERPRETED
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. Next time I would be very terted to know: If Bert and Ernie were ed gay, would they be different than they are now? “I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert and Ernie, they were [gay], ” Mark Saltzman, who worked for the prchooler program for 15 years, told Queerty an terview.
ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY?
There’s much more to a human beg than jt straightns or gayns. In 2013, the New Yorker suggted the nature of their relatnship might be romantic by g a silhouette of characters their likens on the ver about the Supreme Court lg on gay marriage.
WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
For s, we’ve wonred: Are Bert and Ernie gay? The inic “Same Street” duo live together, share a bedroom and don’t seem shy about takg a bath ont of each other, so …The recurrg qutn shot back to our nscns this week after a former “Same Street” wrer who is gay said an terview that he wrote Bert and Ernie as a “lovg uple, ” takg spiratn om his own relatnship wh his longtime partner. “I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert and Ernie, they were” gay, the wrer, Mark Saltzman, said an terview wh Queerty, a gay news and entertament se.
“Somehow, the uproar, that turned to Bert and Ernie beg gay, ” he said. While he believ that “Same Street” should clu a gay uple s programmg, he said should be done wh human characters, not for Bert and Ernie, “they are two guys who love each other, ” Mr. ”Frank Oz, who helped create Bert and Ernie nearly a half century ago, said on Twter on Tuday that the characters were not ments received phback om those who shared the importance of havg gay and lbian reprentatn on televisn.
One person wrote on Twter that “havg the flexibily to see them” as gay “was good for me, and the more voic I see CONFIRMING that they DEFINITELY ARE NOT is what mak me sad. The program rpond then as did on Tuday, sayg that the puppets were jt that — puppets — and did not have a sexual orientatn or not, Bert and Ernie me to symbolize gay rights when, 2013, they were featured on the ver of The New Yorker after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. It showed the two muppets cuddlg ont of the TV, a moment of timacy to celebrate a historic may never know for sure whether Bert and Ernie are gay.