“Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” said the June 13 Nickelodeon tweet. Happy #PrideMonth!” says the Twitter post dated June 11, from the official Sesame Street account Street was not the only kids’ show that voiced a message of support for the LGBT activist–backed “Pride Month,” which promotes the homosexual lifestyle and gender-fluidity.Īlso tweeting in support of “Pride Month” was the kids’ network Nickelodeon, which posted a tweet featuring a trio of its popular characters in colorful dress. “On our street, we accept all, we love all, and we respect all. Meanwhile, Frank Oz posted several tweets in response to the backlash.J( LifeSiteNews) - The long-running PBS children’s television program Sesame Street showed its support for LGBT “Pride Month” with a social media post shared on Twitter and Facebook last week. On September 19th, some Twitter users responded negatively to Sesame Workshop's statement. “There is a difference.” The New York Times stated that "while believes that Sesame Street should include a gay couple in its programming, he said it should be done with human characters, not puppets". Somehow, in the uproar, that turned into Bert and Ernie being gay,” he said. “As a writer, you just bring what you know into your work. The same day the New York Times published statements from Saltzman. In the beginning of the clip, the event is mentioned in the transcript:īert: "I'm glad we find the admitting we just don't work as roommates"Įrnie: "Now people will stop saying we're gay" Developments
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The event would later be mentioned in a clip of the American stop-motion television series Robot Chicken known as "Bert and Ernie get a new roommate". Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.” They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. On August 11th, Sesame Workshop replied with a statement on Facebook stating: In 2011, a petition on called on Sesame Workshop and PBS to allow the characters to get married. Many argued that it would be beneficial to portray a same-sex couple on Sesame Street. Many members of the gay community voiced their frustration with Sesame Workshop's refusal to acknowledge a sexual relationship between Bert and Ernie. They watched the Supreme Court overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.
On June 27th, 2013, The New Yorker's cover featured an illustration of Bert and Ernie cuddling on the couch as
In 1994, former Sesame Workshop head, Gary Knell, said that Bert and Ernie “are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. Although Bert and Ernie did not share a bed, viewers still held on to the possibility of an intimate relationship between the two.
Puppeteers and writers, Frank Oz and Jim Henson, created the characters which were said to be based on their own friendship with one another. The two characters were depicted as best friends who shared a bedroom in their apartment on 123 Sesame Street. In July 1969, the pilot episode of Sesame Street was broadcast, which featured two male muppet roommates named Bert and Ernie. September 16th, 2018 Bert and Ernie Sexual Orientation Controversy refers to an online debate over speculation surrounding the sexual orientation and relationship of the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie, which arose after former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman claimed the duo were inspired by a real-life intimate relationship between two men.