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Inside Bert and Ernie’s All-Too-Brief Moment of Gay Liberation
FELT
A gay ‘Sesame Street’ writer revealed he distilled parts of his own relationship into Bert and Ernie. ‘Sesame Street’ and Frank Oz objected. But momentarily the pair was liberated.
Tim Teeman
Senior Editor and Writer
Published
Sep. 18 2018
8:20PM EDT
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