Wicked: For Good star Jonathan Bailey stopped by Sesame Street recently for a dance party with longtime male roommates Bert and Ernie, and LGBTQ+ fans have been eating up the queer subtext.The clip, posted to the long-running childrens educational shows social media accounts on November 18, finds the out actor cutting a rug with Ernie as his grouchy roommate Bert tries to read. But apparently Bert is a big fan of the Bridgerton and Fellow Travelers star, who was recently named People magazines first-ever out gay Sexiest Man Alive. Related 23 LGBTQ+ celebrities who found their way onto Sesame Street Is that Jonathan Bailey? the star-struck, unibrowed Muppet, Ernie, asks.Were dancing through life, Bert! Bailey says, referencing his characters big number in Wicked. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Bert quickly joins in on the fun, joking that Bailey has some wicked moves. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sesame Street (@sesamestreet)Fans on Instagram took to the posts comments, posting lovingly tongue-in-cheek messages.Three gay icons, one user wrote.jb dancing with the original gay couple on tv! WE LOVE IT, another posted.Gays of a feather flock together! yet another comment read.When the open couple picks up a third out producer and DJ Corey Craig joked.Of course, leadership at Sesame Workshop as well as Bert and Ernie co-creator Frank Oz have long maintained that the characters are not meant to be a same-sex couple. But that hasnt stopped fans from interpreting them as such. Former Sesame Streetwriter Mark Saltzman went so far as to confirm in a 2018 interview with LGBTQ Nations sibling site Queerty that he, at least, always thought of the characters as a couple. Recalling a San Francisco Chronicle story in which a mother said her preschooler had asked whether Bert and Ernie were lovers, Saltzman told Queerty that he always felt that, without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were. I didnt have any other way to contextualize them.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.