Bert and Ernie are neither gay nor straight — they're puppets

Bert and Ernie
By Naomi Lakritz, Postmedia News August 13, 2011 
While Britain burned this week, and thousands continued to suffer through the famine in the Horn of Africa, one group of people had something far more pressing on their minds — they wanted Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street to marry...read here