This molded plastic Bert finger puppet is one of a set of licensed Sesame Street toys made in the 1980s to capitalize on the popularity of the children’s television series, especially its Muppet ...

A longtime writer from the beloved children's show on Tuesday appeared to confirm they were in fact a "loving couple," only for its creators to deny the pair are together or have a sexual orientation.

Sesame Street‘s Bert and Ernie have been living together for 40 years. And now, an online petition demanding that Sesame Street allow Bert and Ernie to wed is circulating. As of this posting it has ...

Long suspected, long denied, but finally confirmed: ‘Bert’ and ‘Ernie’ are gay, gay GAY! Yes, although they’re puppets and do not even sport genitals, “Sesame Street” characters ‘Bert’ and ‘Ernie’ are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Miss Piggy is finally joining her love, Kermit the Frog, in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of Jim Henson’s Muppets, and Bert and Ernie will have a place in history, too.