Bert and Ernie live together, play together, and sing together, but at no point during the 48-season run of Sesame Street has the obvious been confirmed. In a recent interview with Queerty, though, writer Mark Saltzman, who joined the show in 1984 (he also wrote The Adventures of Milo and Otis!), revealed television’s worst-kept secret: Bert and Ernie are more than […]
The New Yorker celebrated the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on gay marriage with one of its most awesome covers of all time. It marked the moment by featuring what many people consider to be one of the most famous gay couples in pop culture: Bert and Ernie. In the magazine’s cover, titled “Bert and Ernie’s […]
Should Bert and Ernie get married? Over 900 people think so. A petition started by Lair Scott, exhorts the makers of Sesame Street to let the two old friends get hitched. Gay marriage became legal in New York this June, increasing the number of states in the country to do so to six. The petition […]