After a petition called for Bert and Ernie to get married on "Sesame Street," the TV show has weighed in on Facebook: "Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that ...

“Bert and Ernie live together in an apartment in the basement of 123 Sesame Street. In earlier episodes they slept in the same bed but due to controversy, made the beds separate. Although they now ...

Though Saltzman envisioned Bert and Ernie as a couple, he admitted that he “would never have said to the head writer, ‘Oh, I’m writing this. This is my partner and me.’” ...

Jane said her nickname from Combs was “Bert.” Jane appeared for a second day of testimony Friday in Diddy’s sex trafficking trial.

(CBS Local)--A former "Sesame Street" writer has revealed that Bert and Ernie are gay. Mark Saltzman, who wrote scripts and songs on "Sesame Street" for 15 years beginning in 1984, told Queerty ...

In Queerty’s interview with Mark Saltzman about his Sesame Street days, he confessed that he always wrote Bert & Ernie as a gay couple. We can’t help but notice some of the bizarre and often ...

The magazine calls the July 8 & 15 cover, “Bert and Ernie’s ‘Moment of Joy.'” “It’s amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime,” said Jack Hunter, who ...

Muppets, from left, Grover, Rosita, Elmo, Dr. Ruster, Cookie Monster, Ernie and Bert. Dr. Valentin Fuster, a cardiologist at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital who Dr. Ruster is based on, teamed up ...