Actor Tuc Watks cricized the gay uple on "Morn Fay." Jse Tyler Fergon's rponse was perfect.
Contents:
- NO, CAM AND MCH ON ‘MORN FAY’ ARE NOT ‘THE GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLACKFACE’
- ‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
- HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
- ARE M AND HIS PARTNER GAY REAL LIFE OM MORN FAY?
NO, CAM AND MCH ON ‘MORN FAY’ ARE NOT ‘THE GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLACKFACE’
* are mitch and cam gay in real life *
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. And fense of Cam, I still n”t figure out how a clown & football ach who also happens to be gay is a stereotype.
‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
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 *
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. 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.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
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. 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.
ARE M AND HIS PARTNER GAY REAL LIFE OM MORN FAY?
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.