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bert and ernie gay magazine cover

In honor of this week's Supreme Court cisn strikg down the Defense of Marriage Act, The New Yorker selected a sweet, seemgly nocent ver featurg Bert and Ernie, the beloved but "not gay" gay ins om Same Street, which has stirred up an Inter reactn that is pletely overblown but altogether revealg. Clearly the uch-potato image of Bert and his long-time roommate have unleashed some eper emotns that were hidg the pund ge the days followg the Court's lgs on Wednday. ...

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WHY IS EVERYONE TAKG BERT AND ERNIE'S BIG GAY MAGAZE COVER SO SERLY?

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Skip to ma ntentNewsBooks & CultureFictn & PoetryHumor & CartoonsMagazePuzzl & GamVioPodstsGogs OnFtivalShop“It’s amazg to wns how attus on gay rights have evolved my lifetime, ” said Jack Hunter, the artist behd next week’s ver, “Moment of Joy. In honor of this week's Supreme Court cisn strikg down the Defense of Marriage Act, The New Yorker selected a sweet, seemgly nocent ver featurg Bert and Ernie, the beloved but "not gay" gay ins om Same Street, which has stirred up an Inter reactn that is pletely overblown but altogether revealg.

RELATED: Bert and Ernie's New Yorker Cover Is a Picture Perfect Symbol for Gay MarriageHomophob: We Haven't Lost YetThe Rponse: A rear emails, based on our ial post about the ver: "Why do we have to make everythg to some homosexual issue!? The homosexual muny is ls than six percent of our populatn (om bt timat I have read), but they take up so much of social issu. "RELATED: Is This the Last Big Gay-Marriage Fight?

Pro-gay marriage liberal eaks n't even leave children out of their sick sex issu.

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 * bert and ernie gay magazine cover *

" — as if to suggt that the gays will doctrate our nocent babi.

BERT AND ERNIE'S NEW YORKER COVER IS A PICTURE PERFECT SYMBOL FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Even though Bert and Ernie officially aren't gay, next week's ver of The New Yorker featur Same Street's not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week's Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don't overthk : Ameri's most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of Ameri. ... * bert and ernie gay magazine cover *

RELATED: Supreme Court to Review Gay Marriage: Everythg You Need to Know NowWhat It Really Means: The subtext here is that the people still fd your liftyle disgtg, and as our rear Bobby Mota not, " uld easily go backwards. ) Homophob are still homophobic and will always be homophobic, no matter what Anthony Kennedy says. RELATED: What the Natn's Gay Rights Landmarks Looked Like on the Day DOMA DiedThe New Yorker Isn't Takg Us Serly EnoughThe Reactn: On the other si of the issue, gay marriage advot fd the ver "offensive" and a "terrible way to memorate a civil rights victory" bee...

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

Even though Bert and Ernie officially aren&#39;t gay, next week&#39;s ver of <em>The New Yorker</em> featur <em>Same Street</em>&#39;s not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week&#39;s Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don&#39;t overthk : Ameri&#39;s most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of Ameri. * bert and ernie gay magazine cover *

As Same Street has self noted, Bert and Ernie are jt roommat who live together: They n't have sex, and they aren't gay. So, the ver don't make sense and is homophobic and of self, apparently. "The propagatn of the narrative is a childish statement that says more about the sexually obssed and slightly homophobic tennci of our culture, " wr Flavorwire's Tyler Coat.

Two dus livg together don't have to be gay, du.

NEW YORKER VER SUGGTS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY

As Thomas nces, at the end of her screed,, Bert and Ernie are gay ins: "(All that said, whoever go to Pri this weekend drsed as Bert and Ernie is gog to gay heaven.

The gay marriage e serv better than puppets, people, like the fac of the platiffs the DOMA and Proposn 8 s, suggts Coat.

(To be fair: The New Yorker has had out a bunch of other ls juvenile gay vers.

BERT AND ERNIE'S NEW YORKER COVER IS A PICTURE PERFECT SYMBOL FOR GAY MARRIAGE

The magaze even put together a click-bag sli show of other gay marriage vers.

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.

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

“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.

MAGAZE VER SUGGTS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY

Even though Bert and Ernie officially aren't gay, next week's ver of The New Yorker featur Same Street's not-gay gay cultural ins celebratg this week's Supreme Court lgs, which is sweet if you don't overthk : Ameri's most famo men love fally have the official acceptance of Ameri.

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Bert and Ernie are ed a gay uple, 'Same Street' wrer claims .

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