NEW YORK (FOX5NY) - A man who wrote scripts and songs for 15-years for "Sesame Street" now says Muppets Bert and Ernie were gay. It's been a topic for discussion for decades. In an interview with ...

Former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman said in a new interview that Bert and Ernie are a gay couple, as many viewers have suspected for decades. However, the children’s series later released a ...

The show released a statement that says puppets don't have sexual orientations. Following an interview given by a former "Sesame Street" writer who said he wrote the beloved characters Bert and Ernie ...

“I remember one time that a column from the San Francisco Chronicle, a preschooler in the city turned to mom and asked ‘are Bert & Ernie Iovers?’” Saltzman recalled. “And that, coming from a ...

After the internet blew up over Sesame Workshop rejecting former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman's claims that seemingly indicated fan-favorite Muppets Bert and Ernie were a gay couple, he's spoken ...

“It seems Mr. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay,” Oz, a longtime Muppets veteran and Bert’s creator, wrote. “It’s fine that he feels they are. They’re not, of course. But why that ...

A former writer for Sesame Street said in a recent interview that he considered Bert and Ernie to be gay — but the show rebutted this claim, saying the puppets “do not have a sexual orientation.” The ...