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#LGBTQ, #Bert&Ernie, #SesameStreet, # MarkSaltzman “Sesame Street” writer Mark Saltzman says his comments that he wrote Bert and Ernie as a gay couple based on his own same-sex relationship were misinterpreted. “As a writer, you just bring what you know into your work,” he told the New York Times on Tuesday. “Somehow, in the uproar, that turned into Bert and Ernie being gay. There is a difference.” He also said that the show should include gay characters, but that they should be humans and not puppets. He also didn’t deny the fact that Bert and Ernie have a deep connection. “They are two guys who love each other,” Saltzman said. “That’s who they are.” Saltzman, who joined the show as a writer in 1984, kicked up a furor when he told Queerty that the relationship between the two puppets was modeled on his own with long-time partner Arnold Glassman. “And I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert & Ernie, they were [gay],” Saltman said in...