'My activism isn’t a hit the streets variety, and what Sesame Street was doing racially, you certainly don’t want to denounce it.
And I can remember being stonewalled in a way that it made me think it was a lost cause,' said Saltzman. 'I can remember pitching to the education department, the gatekeepers of the curriculum, gay content, just to get it off my conscience. Snuffleupagus was written like a 'closeted' homosexual, and expressed his remorse about never being able to write the iconic show's first gay storyline. In an interview with Queerty, Mark Saltzman was asked the question that many have wondered for years, and in a touching response shared for the very first time that Bert and Ernie were an analog for his own relationship with his late partner, Arnold Glassman. Published: 18:56 BST, 18 September 2018 | Updated: 23:31 BST, 18 September 2018Ī former writer for Sesame Street is revealing that the characters of Bert and Ernie were gay - at least for the two decades he was writing for the children's program - but Sesame Street has shot down his claims.
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He said that he based the two on his own relationship with his life partner Arnold Glassman, who passed away in 2003.Mark Saltzman, a writer on Sesame Street from 1984 through 1999, said that he wrote the characters of Bert and Ernie as gay men.Sunny gays: Sesame Street founder who created Bert and Ernie says they are not homosexuals in the wake of show writer revealing he depicted the pair as lovers based on his relationship
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