'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 '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. 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.
