![]() It is also important when a character who was not created queer, be accepted as such," Oz wrote. "When a character is created to be queer it is indeed important that the character be known as such. Oz continued to go back-and-forth with people responding to his tweet who asked why the colorful puppets couldn't be gay. Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for SXSW file Ernie and Bert are two roommates that lived together in the basement of an apartment called 123 Sesame Street. Originated by Frank Oz and Jim Henson, the characters are currently performed by puppeteers Eric Jacobson and Peter Linz Oz performed Bert until 2006. ![]() "But why that question? Does it really matter? Why the need to define people as only gay? There's much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness." Director/producer/puppeteer Frank Oz poses for a portrait at the "Muppet Guys Talking - Secrets Behind the Show the Whole World Watched" at the 2017 SXSW Conference. Bert and Ernie are two Muppet characters who appear together in numerous skits on the long-running PBS / HBO children's television show, Sesame Street. They're not, of course," Oz wrote in a tweet. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay. The decades-old discussion over Bert and Ernie's relationship status raged on Twitter after former "Sesame Street" writer Mark Saltzman told blog " Queerty" he wrote the duo as a couple based on his own real world relationship with film editor Arnold Glassman.
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