"When my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple was unheard of."
Contents:
- HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
- I HAD TWO GAY DADS DES BEFORE IT WAS 'COOL'
- SURROGACY HORROR: GAY ‘DADS’ MAND ABORTN
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
* show about 2 gay dads *
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His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. This Father’s Day, let’s take a moment to appreciate Mch and Cam, the gay dads of the s Morn Fay, played by Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet.
But the gay dads almost didn’t make to air. A gay lleague even enuraged them to turn Mch and Cam to mor background characters to avoid srg away viewers. It wasn’t an unreasonable ncern at the time: Though gay characters had grown more proment on televisn the early 2000s, upl were ls mon and tend to only appear on ble shows.
I HAD TWO GAY DADS DES BEFORE IT WAS 'COOL'
It was clear that many Amerins were still eply unfortable wh the ia of treatg gay upl as equals. Not only that, but viewers were particularly taken by the gay uple.
That was thanks to a clever strategy: In orr to ease nservative viewers to watchg, the wrers liberately foced early storyl on Mch and Cam’s parentg, rather than on any gay issu. Plots tend to be about takg their dghter to dayre and a pediatrician, or buyg diapers—thgs that would be relatable to gay or straight dienc.
SURROGACY HORROR: GAY ‘DADS’ MAND ABORTN
The issue of physil affectn beme a particular stickg pot among gay viewers. Proposn 8 remaed the law California, where the show was set, and through a strange seri of polil mov, the ban on gay marriage was fend by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not a bad legacy for two gay dads who nearly never ma to air.
I’ll never fet my first day of krgarten bee was the day I learned that not everyone had two gay dads, two brothers and a beagle named Hymie. Then havg to rrect and rm the quisor that my dads were gay when they jt assumed my parents were divorced and remarried which rulted my havg two dads. ” But when my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple wasn’t jt far-fetched, was unheard of.
A phenomenon I n only attribute to my Dad and Pop’s parentg, and their sistence that we be surround by strong, female figur (like nanni and Aunts), whose prence likely circumvented the “void” that some children ascribe to not knowg their birth I graduated llege 2014 and realized that people were still shocked to learn that I have two gay dads, I knew was important for me to e my unique posn as a child of same-sex parents to ntribute to the “normalizatn” of fai like me – somethg that as a child I had always yearned to do, but at the time lacked the rourc to acplish.