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Bert and Ernie are same-sex attracted says Levar Burton
After Identify Saltzman, a former author for Sesame Street revealed that Bert and Ernie were gay and he had based the characters on his relationship with film editor Arnold Glassman, Sesame Workshop took to Twitter to shut down these claims.
In the interview with Queerty, the Sesame Avenue writer — who worked on the show from 1984 to 1999 — also said that Mr. Snuffleupagus was written favor a closeted gay dude and had expressed his remorse for not entity able to write the children’s television show’s first gay storyline.
After Sesame Lane responded to his claims to state that Bert and Ernie were in fact not gay because they're puppets who acquire no sexual orientation, many took to Twitter to express their views.
Sesame Avenue shot down claims by former writer Mark Saltzman that Bert and Ernie are gay
How did Levar Burton react?
Best known as the host of the equally long-running PBS children’s series Reading Rainbow, Levar Burton weighed in on the revelation that Bert and Ernie were queer , according to former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman, as reported by TMZ.
Spotted at LAX, Levar was filmed saying the characters' ‘coming out’ was
By Jae Moore
The name LeVar Burton should ring familiar to anyone who grew up in the ‘80s or ‘90s. As host and executive producer of the award-winning PBS series Reading Rainbow, Burton instilled an unquenchable love for learning in countless children. And now, Burton has taken on a fresh role: Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week 2023. It’s a fitting recognition for a literary advocate who spent decades encouraging kids to read, and who uses his public figure to fight for their right to continue to do so as shown by his aptly named new documentary (The Right to Read) and his collaboration with MoveOn to collect signatures from notable figures, Artists Against Novel Bans.
LeVar Burton released a new original T-shirt to support the fight against book bans
Dubbing October 4 “LeVar Burton Day,” Banned Books Week hosted a live conversation between Burton and a rising celebrity in the effort to end book bans, Da’Taeveyon Daniels. Selected by the event’s coalition to work as Youth Honorary Chair, Daniels, 16 and a senior in high institution, is an outspoken advocate of intellectual freedom, and lives in Texas, which has the second utmost number of book bans for 2022-23, according to a
An Evening with LeVar Burton
ACTORS & ARTISTS
Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) was a short story writer best known for her collection A Guide for Cleaning Women, which was published posthumously. Berlin produced six collections, and her work was featured in numerous publications, including The Atlantic. In addition, she was honored with the American Book Award in 1991 and won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Berlin taught resourceful writing at the University of Colorado, as good as the San Francisco County Jail and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
LeVar Burton is finest known for his television work, most notably on the award-winning series Roots, Reading Rainbow, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Additional film and television credits include Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Ali, Community, The Big Bang Theory, Perception, and Weird City. He directed multiple episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Celestial body Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Luminary Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, Consciousness, NCIS: New Orleans, and the Disney Channel’s Smart House. Burton’s work has been honored with the Peabody Award a
This weekend brings the annual Gay Pride festivities to West Hollywood, which is arguably the gayest urban area in the country if not the world. As one of relatively rare straight men in WeHo, my preference for women may not be noticeable as I walk through "Boys Town" on my way to the universal pool. Thus I detect myself identifying with Dana Carvey's old SNL personality Lyle the Effeminate Heterosexual. And so might these nine notable men.
- Baz Luhrmann. First, a disclaimer: who knows what any of these guys got up to in their private lives? Certainly, many gay celebrities of the past got married and had children while keeping their same-sex lovers a secret. Anyway, you might assume that only a homosexual could make lavish, over-the-top films like Moulin Rouge! and Strictly Ballroom, yet the dapper Australian director has been married to his costume/production designer Catherine Martin since 1997. They possess two kids.
- LeVar Burton. Considering his soft-spoken personality, his drama geek background, his childhood desire to become a priest, and his involvement in AIDS and gay rights causes, you might be forgiven for thinking the Roots/Star Trek/Reading Rainbow star was gay. But Bu
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