Sesame Workshop can deny it all they want, but Bert and Ernie were written as gay partners from the perspective of a gay man — and that’s not nothin’.
It isn’t the first time that Sesame Workshop has issued a denial about Bert and Ernie’s relationship status.
I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were.
In 1994, Workshop boss Gary Knell said that Bert and Ernie aren’t gay, but that they aren’t straight either because “they don’t exist below the waist.”