Jse Tyler Fergon says 'Morn Fay' star Eric Stontreet, who is straight, often picked his bra while portrayg Cam as a gay man.
Contents:
- JSE TYLER FERGON TOLD MORN FAY STAR ERIC STONTREET TO STOP CHECKG ABOUT PLAYG GAY ROLE
- ‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
- ACTOR ERIC STONTREET DISCS PLAYG GAY CHARACTER ON 'MORN FAY'
- ‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
- GAY ON TV: IT’S ALL THE FAY
- JSE TYLER FERGON TOLD MORN FAY STAR ERIC STONTREET TO STOP CHECKG ABOUT PLAYG GAY ROLE
- ‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
JSE TYLER FERGON TOLD MORN FAY STAR ERIC STONTREET TO STOP CHECKG ABOUT PLAYG GAY ROLE
Jse Tyler Fergon says 'Morn Fay' star Eric Stontreet, who is straight, often picked his bra while portrayg Cam as a gay man. * gay characters on modern family *
Jse Tyler Fergon told Morn Fay star Eric Stontreet to stop checkg about playg gay role The actor looked back at the LGBTQ+ reprentatn on the h s and praised his TV hband durg the gural episo of his podst, Dner's on Me. Though Fergon is gay, Stontreet is not — and when asked by Bowen if he believed Stontreet would be st as a gay character the current landspe, Fergon said, "I thk if you ask Eric, he would say no.
" Fergon also shared that Stontreet ma a pot to check wh him about portrayg a gay man, which he had to tell his TV hband to stop dog. 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.
“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.
‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
Actor and Comedian Eric Stontreet discs playg a gay character on the h televisn show, 'Morn Fay.' * gay characters on modern family *
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). Fergon, who is gay real life, and Stontreet played the beloved married uple Mchell Prchett and Cameron Tucker for eleven seasons on ABC's Morn Fay.
Fergon was nomated for five Emmys for his role, and Stontreet was nomated for three, wng two awards for Outstandg Supportg Actor a Comedy uple was much ld for their pictn of everyday married life for a gay uple on an ABC s. They also adopted a dghter, Lily, and later another child, beg one of the most visible exampl of a gay fay on TV for fans might be beggg for the whole st to rne, this cute rnn will have to hold over until then.
ACTOR ERIC STONTREET DISCS PLAYG GAY CHARACTER ON 'MORN FAY'
The outrage is gone. Today, ’s rare to hear a plat about shows like “Morn Fay” or the drama “Smash,” which has five gay characters. * gay characters on modern family *
“Suated wh the manicured suburbs of California, Morn Fay, an ABC suatnal edy styled as a “mockumentary”, follows the liv of three fai: Jay Prchett, his send wife Gloria and her son, Manny; Jay’s olst dghter, Claire her hband Phil, and their three children; and Jay’s gay son Mch, his partner Cam and their adopted dghter om Vietnam, Lily. Together, they make up one of the most high-profile gay upl on prime time. ' They're relatg to , " says Fergon, who is openly gay and sgle.
Pl, Fergon says, might help people be more fortable wh gay marriage. "I never want to seem embarrassed or ashamed that I'm playg a gay person.
So I would never want to be like, 'Hey, I'm not gay. 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.
‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
Mastream attus towards same-sex relatnships have shifted drastilly recent years, and actor Eric Stontreet thks ABC's "Morn Fay" may have somethg to do wh an terview wh The Huffgton Post, Stontreet -- who plays one-half of a gay uple on the show -- ld the show for helpg to change the perceptn of gay characters through pop culture.
"ln fact, one woman told him that the show provid visibily for gay upl wh children and helped her dghter keep bulli check. "Our only agenda has always been to be really funny and tell really good stori and the two characters happen to be gay men, " he You GoFavore Gay TV CouplYou May Like. Now, wh Proposn 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act DOMA feated, the seri is about to cement the public image of a happy gay nuclear fay wh the weddg of long-term boyiends, Mchell and Cameron.
GAY ON TV: IT’S ALL THE FAY
Although the reprentatn of gay and lbian characters on Amerin screens is beg creasgly mon, is easy to fet how recently US televisn was a straights-only doma. In the 1960s and 1970s, homosexualy on televisn was treated like a social problem, or an exotic disease. The low pot of this sort of programmg was CBS’s 1967 hour-long vtigatn The Homosexuals.
It opened wh a poll statg that Amerins saw homosexualy as “more harmful to society than adultery, abortn or prostutn”, and did ltle to dispel those fears.
While there were also more thoughtful treatments of homosexual characters, such as the ABC TV movie, That Certa Summer, even the tend to portray gayns as a personal misfortune. As gay rights groups grew more vol, televisn grew braver pictg gay characters.
JSE TYLER FERGON TOLD MORN FAY STAR ERIC STONTREET TO STOP CHECKG ABOUT PLAYG GAY ROLE
Shows like Hill Street Blu and LA Law featured gay characters, typilly one-off storyl or “special episos”. Here homosexualy was still an issue, though was more likely to be a personal or emotnal one rather than the social problem of earlier tim.
‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
But notable exceptns like Soap’s Jodie Dallas asi, gay characters tend to have a limed shelf-life. Unwillg to show the velopment of gay relatnships, works only showed them g out, and later, stgglg wh the implitns of AIDS. By the 1990s gay and lbian characters were almost rigur on prime-time ss.
Ron Becker has argued that gay TV characters the 1990s beme a kd of stat symbol for viewers who wanted to showse their own progrsive polics through the culture they nsumed. Male characters like Frasier Crane or Jerry Sefeld were forced to nont their own ambiguo masculy light of the new cultural visibily of homosexualy.