Sesame Street says Bert and Ernie are just friends and 'don't have a sexual orientation'

Sesame Workshop, the organisation behind Sesame Street has said that characters Bert and Ernie “do not have a sexual orientation” after a former writer for the show recently said he considered them to be gay. Former writer Mark Saltzman, who worked for Sesame Street, made his comments during an interview with Queerty. “I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert & Ernie, they were [gay],” Saltzman said.
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