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

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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 * modern family gay couple son *

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.

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

The cln of a gay uple “Morn Fay” is a great thg that helped a lot of viewers realize that gay men exist, and that many of them live lovg, monogamo relatnships as they raise children. And, remember, the ABC s buted six years before same-sex marriage was legalized the Uned Stat. * modern family gay couple son *

Played by Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet, seeg a lovg (and bickerg) gay uple on primetime was a revelatn.

“The seri has nsistently brought lns of viewers every week for the past 11 years, and let viewers — particularly on who may not have been tung to other clive seri on ble or streamg — get to know and love a gay uple all their ups and downs and trials and tribulatns. Hulu buted “The Bravt Knight” last year, an animated fairy tale about a gay dad reuntg his adventur to his adopted dghter. 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.

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' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED

11'We're raisg him gay until he cis he's straight, ' Jse revealed.

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

ABCIn a slightly prsg lumn on sex and televisn earlier this week, Washgton Post TV cric Tom Shal sgled out Morn Fay for s portrayal of gay characters.

The show, he said, "picts a gay-male marriage which both partners are rehgly dimensnal, believable human 're not flawed the silly, stereotypil ways that once domated such portrayals. " This statement highlights both how far Morn Fay has e—and how far still has to go when to gay upl Stontreet—the actor who plays Cam, one half of the uple Shal prais his lumn—told me he's proud that the show treats his character's fay like an equal rner of the three fai who make up Morn Fay's supportg triangle.

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