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‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV

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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. “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. 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).

(Photo urty of Gill Mgasson/ABC) “Morn Fay” stars Eric Stontreet as Cameron and Jse Tyler Fergon as 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.

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

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THE MORN FAY EFFECT: POP CULTURE’S ROLE THE GAY-MARRIAGE REVOLUTN

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When the show premiered 11 years ago, there weren’t a lot of gay characters on TV — so maybe an effort uld have and should have been ma to go beyond the ’s pretty easy to say, “Oh, Mch and Cam are jt two gay guys.

FROM MORN FAY TO GLEE: HOW TV ADVANCED GAY RIGHTS

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'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED

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. ABCIt you look at the trend le for the Gallup poll about Amerin attus towards gay marriage, you’ll see that support for same-sex marriage, after craterg for a year, began to climb toward s now-historic height 2009.

A 2012 Hollywood Reporter poll found that 27 percent of likely voters said that pictns of gay characters on TV ma them more pro-gay marriage, and there are news acunts of people credg their newfound sympathy toward gay people to Morn urse, televisn has spotlighted queer people for s, both major rol on shows like Will & Grace and Glee, and mor on on shows like All the Fay and Goln Girls. But the fact remas that each popular pictn of gay life helped enurage works to take chanc on others, and today there’s unprecented diversy reprentatn of sexualy on televisn, as shown programs like Empire and Orange Is the New any of this matter to the Supreme Court, which jt clared gay marriage a legal right? But speculatg on judg’ motiv is a losg task, and the rise natnal support for gay marriage possibly ow ls to ss than do to mographic shifts and polil anizg efforts followg ballot-box feats to pop culture, ’s probably bt to jt foc on what n acplish now, the wake of Obergefell v.

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Film and TV has helped popularize the ia that gay upl n be “normal”—as banal as Cam and Mch; as dire need of unselg as Cys and Jam on Sndal; as lovgly parental as Stef and Lena on The Fosters.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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