Bert and Ernie Celebrate Gay Marriage

Contents:

• BERT AND ERNIE ARE ED A GAY UPLE, 'SAME STREET' WRER CLAIMS
• SAME STREET SAYS BERT AND ERNIE 'DON'T HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN' AFTER LONGTIME WRER CLAIMS THEY'RE GAY
• ARE BERT AND ERNIE A GAY UPLE? FALLY, THE ANSWER
• EUROPEAN URT CL TO TAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE SE
• BERT & ERNIE CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE ON THE NEW YORKER'S COVER
• EUROPEAN URT CL TO TAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE SE
• GAY MARRIAGE 'BERT AND ERNIE' KE BAKERY FOUND GUILTY OF DISCRIMATN NORTHERN IRELAND
• BERT AND ERNIE GAY MARRIAGE? SAME STREET SAYS NO
• BERT AND ERNIE CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE
• NEW YORKER’S BERT AND ERNIE GAY MARRIAGE COVER SPARKS DIVISIVE RPONSE
• ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY? ‘SAME STREET’ WRER SAYS HIS COMMENTS WERE MISTERPRETED

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

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. LONDON — A top European urt cled Thursday to le a high-profile discrimatn se centered on an activist’s requt to have a ke rated wh the “Same Street” characters Bert and Ernie and the words “Support Gay Marriage.

Refed to make the ke Lee Bakg Belfast, Northern Lawls / PA via APThe owners argued they were happy to bake goods for anyone but would not put msag on their products at odds wh their Christian said he was trated the se was thrown out on what he lled “a technily” and said that eedom of exprsn “mt equally apply to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people. Two women who tied the knot Febary 2020 beme the first gay uple to wed Northern Ireland.

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

In a week that's been marked by one of the most signifint steps forward for gay rights the Uned Stat, a lot of people are celebratg… cludg rints of Same Street.

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

After all, when the characters buted 1969, was exceedgly mon for gay men to refer to their partners as "roommat, " and the tight relatnship between the adult Bert and Ernie-- they share a bedroom and do everythg together-- often read to adult ey as a mted, monogamo relatnship. Two years ago, when New York State legalized gay marriage, a petn emerged askg Same Street to allow Bert and Ernie to get married.

EUROPEAN URT CL TO TAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE SE

The Same Workshop's rponse did a pretty remarkable job of turng down the requt whout even a whiff of homophobia.

It's not that Bert & Ernie aren't gay bee that's a bad thg; 's bee they're characters ma for children who re way ls about romantic relatnships than learng how to share:Bert and Ernie are bt iends. So many children today are eher raised by gay parents or have iends who are, and most of them will grow up not unrstandg how uld have ever been a problem for two women or two men to marry and love each other.

But will be a long time before the kids who are of Same Street watchg age n unrstand the ncept that driv an assumptn that Bert & Ernie are, fact, a gay uple. But there's a reason that Same Street don't have any puppets who are paired-off-- the puppets are the avatars for children on the show, and kids don't re one b about marriage, gay or otherwise.

BERT & ERNIE CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE ON THE NEW YORKER'S COVER

But is an tertg of example of how kids learn about what means to love somebody, and how the issue of gay marriage uld be addrsed on the show the future-- but probably not wh Bert & Ernie.

Sign up for the daily Insi Washgton email for exclive US verage and analysis sent to your boxGet our ee Insi Washgton email A top European urt cled Thursday to le a high-profile discrimatn se centered on an activist's requt to have a ke rated wh the “Same Street” characters Bert and Ernie and the words “Support Gay Marriage.

EUROPEAN URT CL TO TAKE PRO-GAY MARRIAGE KE SE

Get the ee Morng Headl email for news om our reporters across the worldSign up to our ee Morng Headl emailA Christian bakery which refed to bake a pro-gay marriage “Bert and Ernie” ke has been found guilty of discrimatn a landmark Bakg Company, which livers across the UK and Northern Ireland, had argued that the ke and s slogan “Support Gay Marriage” went agast their “scerely held” Christian givg her lg at Belfast County Court, district judge Isobel Brownlie said: "The fendants have unlawfully discrimated agast the platiff on grounds of sexual discrimatn. "Undated file image shows the McArthur fay, owners of the Ashers Bakg Company which has been found guilty of discrimatn (PA)The bakery is n by the McArthur fay Belfast, employg 80 staff across ne branch, and had received fancial support s se om the Christian claimed the issue was wh the ke, not the person who orred gay rights activist Gareth Lee, who requted the ke to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia last May, told Belfast County Court the refal ma him feel like “a lser person” rights activist Gareth Lee at Belfast County Court on 26 March 2015 (PA)Mr Lee has been strongly backed by the Northern Ireland Equaly Commissn, which set asi £40, 000 to ver legal urt se heard evince over three days March, and the high-profile se has divid public opn Belfast. In pictur: UK's first gay weddgs Show all 16And the poll found an even stronger majory - 65 per cent of rponnts - disapproved of the cisn by the Equaly Commissn to brg legal the Republic of Ireland looked set to bee the first untry the world to approve same-sex marriage by public vote, remas a highly ntent issue Northern Ireland.

Attempts to legalise gay marriage have been rejected four tim by the volved Assembly at Stormont.

GAY MARRIAGE 'BERT AND ERNIE' KE BAKERY FOUND GUILTY OF DISCRIMATN NORTHERN IRELAND

Bloggers also took as a ht the large number of gay gut stars om that season, to which Same Street rpond, "We've always reached out to a variety of actors and athlet and celebri to appear on the show, and our programmg has always appealed to adults as much as children. ""It's amazg to wns how attus on gay rights have evolved my lifetime, " artist Jack Hunter, the artist told The New Yorker. Augt 11, 2011— -- Are they gay?

Thoands of same-sex upl have been married New York sce gay marriage was legalized the Empire State July.

BERT AND ERNIE GAY MARRIAGE? SAME STREET SAYS NO

" The petn has llected more than 1, 600 are Bert and Ernie even gay, never md ready for the ultimate mment? " His aim, he add, is to get 20, 000 petners to enurage the Same Workshop to eher marry Bert and Ernie or troduce a gay or lbian character. A few days before he posted the marriage petn, Stt had generated another, askg Same Workshop to "Out Bert and Ernie as Gay.

" That was enough to nvce many bloggers that the Same Workshop was secretly signalg Bert's sexual the folks on Same Street have always phed back agast the 2007, Same Workshop print and CEO Gary Knell wrote, "They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets…they do not exist below the waist.

There is now a "Leave Bert and Ernie alone" petn and a "Stop Prsurg PBS to make Bert and Ernie Gay" of this wrg, the number of people signg up for those petns is climbg.

BERT AND ERNIE CELEBRATE GAY MARRIAGE

Next week’s ver, “Moment of Joy, ” shows the puppets cuddlg while watchg an image of Supreme Court jtic on televisn, implyg the TV iends are a same-sex uple, followg verage of this week’s lgs on two landmark gay marriage s. New York Magaze’s Dan Amira said the ver was more effective than the image of an “out” gay uple would have been.

NEW YORKER’S BERT AND ERNIE GAY MARRIAGE COVER SPARKS DIVISIVE RPONSE

“To have a closeted gay uple lends the image eper meang: In an timate moment the privacy of their home, away om the public eye, they feel heartened that society is fally g around to acceptg them for who they are, ” he wrote. The ver was also attacked om the left, wh Flavorwire’s Tyler Coat wrg the image “fantilized” the gay rights movement. “You see, straight Ameri, there’s a difference between same-sex iends and gay lovers.

“And as prejudice agast gays and lbians fas, more of the ambiguoly gay upl will clare themselv. The origal image had Print Barack Obama on the TV set, not the Supreme Court, and was created around the time Obama me out favor of gay marriage.

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

After New York legalized gay marriage 2011, the show’s producers rpond to an onle petn urgg the famo roommat to wed. Shocked to see that Bert and Ernie might be gay.

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.