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Actor Tuc Watks cricized the gay uple on "Morn Fay." Jse Tyler Fergon's rponse was perfect.

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NO, CAM AND MCH ON ‘MORN FAY’ ARE NOT ‘THE GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLACKFACE’

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It turns out that Morn Fay was the first Amerin show history to have both a gay proposal and a weddg between two gay ma characters. Actor Tuc Watks, bt known for his role as David Vickers on “One Life to Live” and Bob Hunter on “Dperate Hoewiv, ” took to his Facebook page to post about Cam and Mch, the gay uple on “Morn Fay” played by Eric Stontreet and Jse Tyler Fergon.

“But, for the most part, I have a hard time lghg at the gay guys.

It feels a ltle b like the gay equivalent of 'blackface. Watks, who joed “One Life to Live” 1994, me out as gay 2013. We n”t be expected to reprent every gay person.

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Mark Blankenship wr that the persistently unsupportive dynamic between the only gay uple on a popular work s has gotten so unpleasant that 's temptg him to change the channel. * are mitch and cam gay in real life *

And fense of Cam, I still n”t figure out how a clown & football ach who also happens to be gay is a stereotype. Also: Cricizg important gay characters on TV for not beg the kds of gay characters you prefer and thkg that bee you don't want Cam and Mch at your dner party, they mt not be TV-ready. There are plenty of real gay people who act like Cam and Mch, jt like there are plenty of gay men who act like the guys on “Lookg, ” “Queer as Folk, ” and “Will and Grace.

” Jt bee you n intify a gay character's gayns thanks to a performer's actg choic don't mean his work is parable to hio racist ritur. You jt sulted every real gay person who relat to Cam and Mch by mistakg your juvenile “ick” rponse as a salient cultural issue.

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I thk slammg gay characters as “stereotypil” is a ward's way of sayg, “I'm unfortable acknowledgg that many gay people have specific personaly tras mon. Many gay people have specific personaly tras mon. We've fought for gay characters on TV to be out and real, not jt strategic avatars signed to feel “cuttg edge.

If Tuc Watks thks gay behavrs are somethg that should be policed, modified, or crged at, he's fely the dated one. Many doors have opened gay people”s fight for equaly.

ARE M AND HIS PARTNER GAY REAL LIFE OM MORN FAY?

I”m glad to have played gay characters, but at the same time have been trated by the stereotyp I feel I”ve been party to playg those rol.

The stereotyp I saw ma me thk, ‘Well, I don”t intify wh that so I mt not be gay. But, real life, Stontreet is not gay (or, as he put to, he’s “openly straight”) 47-year-old actor is currently datg Ldsay Schwezer, a pediatric nurse, whom he ghed over on “The Ellen DeGener Show” September 2017. Although the actor is straight, Stontreet took playg a gay character — and a gay parent, no ls — very serly.

And a close send, if not right there wh , is the ia that Jse and I are both gettg to have cultural impact wh marriage equaly and what is to be a gay person and have the stggle of how to e out or when to e out.... Prr to g out as gay three tim to his father, Mchell dated a number of girls but none of them ever worked out for obv reasons. Dpe playg a gay character on Morn Fay, Eric Stontreet has que the different personal life, even though he is very aware that everyone thks he is openly gay.

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