This week, Queerty published an interview with TV writer Mark Saltzman about his Sesame Street days, who confessed he always wrote Bert & Ernie as a gay couple. A national media frenzy ensued.
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The Sesame Street Workshop quickly rushed out a disclaimer claiming Bert & Ernie don’t have sexual orientations because they’re puppets. Never mind the fact that this never stopped Kermit the Frog and Ms. Piggy from enjoying their 40-year love affair, or from Gonzo the Great hooking up with his chicken chick Camilla. But we digress.
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The story was covered by everyone from the New York Times to Newsweek to NPR, as well as Breitbart and even Fox News. All were asking the same question: Can puppets, er, muppets be gay?
And then came the memes…
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I thought Elmo was a pedophile.