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Contents:

• IS ERIC STONTREET OM MORN FAY GAY REAL LIFE? KNOW ABOUT HIS AFFAIRS AND RELATNSHIP.
• GAY STEREOTYPG 'MORN FAY' COMEDY
• REAL 'MORN FAY': TWO GAY MOMS, ONE GAY DAD AND A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE
• ‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
• STT D. PIERCE: ‘MORN FAY’ SERV PRAISE FOR CLN AND BRICKBATS FOR GAY STEREOTYP
• ARE THE GAY GUYS ON MORN FAY REALLY GAY?
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• 'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED
• GAY ON TV: IT’S ALL THE FAY
• ‘MORN FAY’ FALLY THROWS THE GAY MARRIAGE EVERYONE WANTED
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• MORN FAY’S JSE TYLER FERGON & HBAND JT MIKA ARE ‘RAISG SON TO BE GAY UNTIL HE CIS TO BE STRAIGHT’

IS ERIC STONTREET OM MORN FAY GAY REAL LIFE? KNOW ABOUT HIS AFFAIRS AND RELATNSHIP.

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.

GAY STEREOTYPG 'MORN FAY' COMEDY

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. 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. Dpe playg the gay character wh -star Jse, Eric addrsed himself as "openly straight". I thk is great that the show mak a gay uple more visible and socially acceptable to the public eye; however, sometim the wrers show their relatnship functng a way that is not how most gay upl work.

REAL 'MORN FAY': TWO GAY MOMS, ONE GAY DAD AND A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE

I will analyze not only how Morn Fay rerc homosexual stereotyp but also how challeng them.

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

Our society has portrayed gay men as very flamboyant and feme. The ual night out for a gay man is clubbg at gay bars wh dgs and alhol. Many gay men are not shown to have long-lastg relatnships.

It is also assumed that homosexual relatnships there mt be the ‘female’ (passive) role and a ‘male’ (domant) role. The stereotyp basilly solidify the nstct that all gay men are the same and there is no diversy between them. Cam is a very flamboyant, high-matenance type of gay; the sassy fashnista type.

As for the other gay characters, they pretty much embody Cam’s flamboyant. Certaly, gay men like this exist real life, but there are far more than jt the two typ out the world, but Morn Fay only seems to foc on the two kds the numero gay characters they have. When to Cam and Mch as characters, their tras are pretty much all gay stereotyp.

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

In the episo ‘Boys’ Night Out’, Cam and Mchell are exced to go out wh some of their gay iends to a very nice rtrant. The wrers are really nformg to the gay stereotype as they down martis and gossip loudly about their boy csh they had growg up.

Y, his dad knows he’s gay but how gay do he want to show his father he is? This is another stereotype that n be hard for gay people to e out to their fai bee they are aaid of rejectn or terference wh the relatnship. Conversely, Morn Fay sheds light on how is entirely possible for the two men a relatnship to shatter some of the stereotyp, much like real life gay men siar relatnships.

ARE THE GAY GUYS ON MORN FAY REALLY GAY?

Although they are often seen bickerg, the thenticy of their relatnship is never qutned, clearly opposg the ia that all gays want is sex and promiscuy.

There has been much speculatn on whether or not gay upl are f to raise children. ) challeng another stereotype of gay men bee they are ually shown as beg very touchy-feely and pletely fe wh PDA. Often misnsted ias of gay men beg promiscuo and unable to have mted relatnships adds on to the stereotype of them beg so willg to displays affectn public.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Although sometim Morn Fay n rerce the gay stereotype, is really important to have gay upl portrayed the media.

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

"The gredients for a fay are kdns and love, iendship and unrstandg, " said real life, jt like on the seri "Morn Fay, " a gay fay experienc different suatns than most fai, like when the tws ll upstairs for their mother.

GAY ON TV: IT’S ALL THE FAY

But as years went by, eventually both Zwklis and Cotlar realized they were gay.

"Frank was there was to hold them first and he looked their ey and said, 'we have to figure out a schle, I have to be here, '" said Jaron and Seth have two moms and a dad - three gay parents and a stepsister Lren.

‘MORN FAY’ FALLY THROWS THE GAY MARRIAGE EVERYONE WANTED

"My fay [is] like everyone else 'e I do what every other 10-year- old the USA do… I wake up get ready for school go to school do stuff after school…even though I have gay parents that do not affect what I do at all, " said Berman Boys Don't Jt Have Two Moms, They Also Have a DadFrank liv nearby and spends every Sunday alone wh the boys. Not everyone supports gay marriage, or havg a fay like this one. Gay marriage self has been a hotly bated natnal issue, and is only legal a handful of Berman-Cotlars are not alone.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Many gay fai entered 'GMA''s search for real morn fai om all over the untry, cludg a fay Florida of two gay men and two lbians raisg children weeks ago, a vio went viral on YouTube: In ont of Iowa lawmakers, 19-year-old Zach Wahls stated his se for his two moms. 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.

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

Hulu buted “The Bravt Knight” last year, an animated fairy tale about a gay dad reuntg his adventur to his adopted dghter. (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.

But creasgly as the seasons went past, you had to wonr if there wasn’t some harm two of TV’s most proment gay characters beg so stereotypil. [Read more: Missn acplished: ‘Morn Fay’ has changed TV]In 2014, out gay actor Tuc Watks (“Dperate Hoewiv, ” “One Life to Live”) ma headl when he posted a Facebook ment praisg “Morn Fay” but addg that he had “a hard time lghg at the gay guys. But also serv the cricism, bee ’s te that Mch and Cam lean to gay stereotyp — they’re flamboyant and (particularly Cameron’s se) feme.

(To be clear, there’s nothg wrong wh a straight man like Stontreet portrayg gay characters. Some activists make that argument, ignorg the fact that there are a lot of gay actors playg straight rol who’d be out of work if they were rtricted to gay rol. And I agree wh Fergon (another out, gay actor) when he says that, y, there really are gay men exactly like Mch and Cam.