Popular Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie are apparently gay.

The writer of Sesame Street, Mark Saltzman, told Queerty, “ I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert & Ernie, they were.”

Saltzman went onto say, “I can remember pitching to the education department, the gatekeepers of the curriculum, gay content, just to get it off my conscience. And I can remember being stonewalled in a way that it made me think it was a lost cause.”

Read the full story from Queerty here.