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‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV

MODERN Fay's Jse Tyler Fergon and his hband Jt Mika are "raisg their eight-month-old son to be gay until he cis to be straight."J * gay son modern family *

While Sofia Vergara’s Gloria waltzed her way to the hearts of gay men and lbians for wildly different reasons, was Cameron and Mchell’s lovg relatnship that ma LGBTQ viewers feel tly seen and reprented. Played by Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet, seeg a lovg (and bickerg) gay uple on primetime was a revelatn.

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11Morn Fay's Jse Tyler Fergon and his hband Jt Mika are 'raisg their eight-month-old son to be gay'. "So, you know, we're raisg him gay until he cis he's straight, " he told Ellen DeGener, when she asked how he was likg fatherhood so far. Ellen chimed : "So, you're raisg him gay until he says he's you'll love him jt the same if he's straight, right?

MORN FAY’S JSE TYLER FERGON & HBAND JT MIKA ARE ‘RAISG SON TO BE GAY UNTIL HE CIS TO BE STRAIGHT’

Told om the perspective of an unseen documentary filmmaker, the seri offers an hont, often-hilar perspective of fay life. Parents Phil and Claire yearn for an hont, open relatnship wh their three kids. But a dghter who is tryg to grow up too fast, another who is too smart for her own good, and a rambunct young son make challengg. Claire's dad, Jay, and his Lata wife, Gloria, are raisg two sons together, but people sometim believe Jay to be Gloria's father. Jay's gay son, Mchell, and his partner, Cameron, have adopted a ltle Asian girl, pletg one big -- straight, gay, multicultural, tradnal -- happy fay. * gay son modern family *

11'We're raisg him gay until he cis he's straight, ' Jse revealed. In March, ahead of Morn Fay's seri fale, Jse Tyler Fergon reflected on the legacy of the groundbreakg ABC s, which followed the liv of the Prchett fay, cludg gay uple Mchell and Cameron (Fergon and Eric Stontreet).

There, Mch was walked down the aisle by his father, Jay -- after overg his own homophobia about the uple's marriage -- as his brother--law, Phil, prid over the ceremony. S., “The Weddg” episo, if nothg else, ptur a moment time, when the natn me together behd their favore gay TV uple and the LGBTQ muny alike. Gay uple Cam and Mch (actors Eric Stontreet and Jse Tyler Fergon) have won our hearts and ma lgh dozens of tim, and have also generated ample bate about straight actors playg gay rol (and vice versa).

'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED

'Morn Fay,' offers a novel velopment for work TV: a mted gay uple as normal as the rt of their dysfunctnal fay. * gay son modern family *

Jay's gay son Mchell and his partner Cameron have adopted a ltle Asian girl, pletg one big -- straight, gay, multicultural, tradnal -- happy fay. Jay's gay son, Mchell, and his partner, Cameron, have adopted a ltle Asian girl, pletg one big -- straight, gay, multicultural, tradnal -- happy fay.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Nolan Gould, the actor who plays Le Dunphy, revealed that not everyone around him was fortable wh "Morn Fay" havg gay characters. * gay son modern family *

Morn Fay, a mockumentary s about a quirky extend fay, offers a novel velopment for work TV: a mted gay uple as normal as the rt of their dysfunctnal fay. Did you mean that you’re not gay?

No, I’m not gay. Mchell is reprentative of many gay men I know.

STT D. PIERCE: ‘MORN FAY’ SERV PRAISE FOR CLN AND BRICKBATS FOR GAY STEREOTYP

The show was one of the first to have two openly gay characters—Mchell and Cameron Prchett (played by Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet, rpectively)—on prime-time TV.

However, her most ser relatnship has been wh on-aga, off-aga boyiend Dylan, played by openly gay actor Reid Ewg, who's appeared episos as early as Morn Fay's pilot. When “Morn Fay” premiered over a ago on ABC back September 2009, reprentatn was nowhere near where is on TV 2020, meang that this hilar new s featurg a gay uple and their adopted dghter was fairly groundbreakg for broadst Gould, who plays Le Dunphy on the Emmy-wng show, shared a prime example of how “revolutnary” was durg a recent terview wh In The Know’s Gibson Johns, monstratg jt how far we’ve e, not only as far as reprentatn on televisn is ncerned, but also as a society.

“I remember a time when “Morn Fay” was so revolutnary that I had fay members llg me, beg like, ‘I don’t know if I n support this show bee there’s two gay guys on , '” Gould shared wh ITK. Enurage Amerin viewers to see a gay uple or an terracial uple or someone different om themselv on televisn and regnize that they share mon ground as humans and as members of a fay. “We were around long enough that ’s not strange to see, you know, two gay guys on televisn a happy, lovg relatnship wh their adopted dghter or an age gap an terracial uple, you know?

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Stt D. Pierce: ‘Morn Fay’ serv praise for cln and brickbats for gay stereotyp.

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