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   From: gay.apes@latimes.com   
      
   Writer Mark Saltzman said his own relationship with a man   
   inevitably inspired the iconic duo's relationship.   
      
   Mark Saltzman, a writer who joined the show in 1984, outed Bert   
   and Ernie in an interview with Queerty. "I always felt that   
   without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they   
   were [gay]," he said.   
      
   https://patch.com/california/missionviejo/s/gijex/bert-ernie-are-   
   just-friends-sesame-workshop   
       
      
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