Jse Tyler Fergon and Jt Mika on Fatherhood and Gay Marriage - Variety

Contents:

• JSE TYLER FERGON TOLD MORN FAY STAR ERIC STONTREET TO STOP CHECKG ABOUT PLAYG GAY ROLE
• JSE TYLER FERGON IS DOG EVERYTHG TO RAISE HIS CHILD AS GAY
• MORN FAY’S JSE TYLER FERGON & HBAND JT MIKA ARE ‘RAISG SON TO BE GAY UNTIL HE CIS TO BE STRAIGHT’
• 'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'
• Y, JSE TYLER FERGON IS GAY AND MARRIED TO JT MIKA, KIDS AND FAY
• HOW JSE TYLER FERGON IS RAISG HIS SON GAY "UNTIL HE DECIS HE'S STRAIGHT"
• JSE TYLER FERGON RPOND PERFECTLY WHEN AN ACTOR CALLED HIS ‘MORN FAY’ CHARACTER ‘GAY BLACKFACE’
• JSE TYLER FERGON TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE GAY RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY ‘STONEWALL FOREVER’ (EXCLIVE)
• JSE TYLER FERGON’S GAY RIGHTS GROUP TARGETED BY IRS

JSE TYLER FERGON TOLD MORN FAY STAR ERIC STONTREET TO STOP CHECKG ABOUT PLAYG GAY ROLE

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.

” Jt Mika, then a law stunt, had jt seen the pilot for the ABC s and stopped to chat wh Fergon about his groundbreakg character Mch, a gay man a monogamo relatnship on work TV. Mika, who worked for the Amerin Foundatn for Equal Rights, enlisted Fergon’s help to lobby for gay marriage. 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.

JSE TYLER FERGON IS DOG EVERYTHG TO RAISE HIS CHILD AS GAY

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.

Jse Tyler Fergon told Ellen DeGener that he plans to raise his son as gay… unls he out as straight at some pot. Related: Jse Tyler Fergon has perfect answer for parents sred about gay characters.

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

“We’re raisg him gay until he cis he’s straight, ” Fergon said. 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?

'GREY'S ANATOMY' STAR JSE WILLIAMS MAK A SE FOR WHY STRAIGHT ACTORS N PLAY GAY ROL HIS BROADWAY BUT, 'TAKE ME OUT'

11'We're raisg him gay until he cis he's straight, ' Jse revealed. But Jse Williams is well st as the gay baseball superstar Darren Lemmg.

Y, JSE TYLER FERGON IS GAY AND MARRIED TO JT MIKA, KIDS AND FAY

"Dpe the monali, the media, cludg the New York Tim, has wonred whether Williams, a straight actor, should play a gay character. Bee straight men playg gay, everybody wants to give them an award, " Billy Porter, who is a member of the LGBTQ muny, told The Hollywood Reporter Neil Patrick Harris, who married his hband David Burtka 2014, told The Tim 2021 that he "would fely want to hire the bt actor" for any role.

"Take Me Out, " which opened April 4, centers Darren, a stellar profsnal baseball player, and what happens to him and his team — the fictnal Empir — after he out as gay. The script, viewed by Insir, lls Darren "a Black man who you uld image had never suffered" and Williams told Entertament Weekly that the character "don't nsir himself part of the gay muny" and has been "straight prentg" before he mak the somewhat impulsive cisn to share his sexual orientatn wh the world at a prs 's is a versn of a g-out story, there is no nyg that. Unfortunately, tryg to do so, he grossly unrtimat the power of racism and homophobia.

We also see the shock Darren feels when 's clear the team manager Skip (Ken Marks) isn't gog to fight to keep Shane Mungt (Michael Oberholtzer) — the player who ed explic homophobic and racial slurs agast Darren — om beg restated on the team. Williams has a lot to prove his Broadway but as Darren, and part of the reason he's succsful bee of his platonic chemistry wh stage veteran and "Morn Fay" star Jse Tyler Fergon as Darren's bs manager Mason "Marz" role, more than Williams', benefs om beg played by an openly gay actor who knows the stggle that many young people face bee of their sexualy.

HOW JSE TYLER FERGON IS RAISG HIS SON GAY "UNTIL HE DECIS HE'S STRAIGHT"

Marz knows why 's important that Darren don't n away om baseball, bee he's facg the btal reali of racism and homophobia.

Gay people need Darren to keep playg so they n keep dreamg. Marz has the right to ll the gay jock out for not botherg to notice a lot of the homophobia that moners the queer muny face. Jse Tyler Fergon is openly Gay and married Jt Mika July 2013.

Jse, an openly Gay Actor, married Jt Mika July 2013.

JSE TYLER FERGON RPOND PERFECTLY WHEN AN ACTOR CALLED HIS ‘MORN FAY’ CHARACTER ‘GAY BLACKFACE’

We're raisg him gay until he cis he's straight, " Jse joked on Tuday, March 9. He and Eric Stontreet broke ground as was the first time a major work had shown a long-term, mted gay relatnship.

JSE TYLER FERGON TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCE GAY RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY ‘STONEWALL FOREVER’ (EXCLIVE)

“It was the biggt thg to happen to all of , and I don’t thk any of are expectg to have a job like this ever aga, ” said Fergon, who played Mchell Prchett, one-half of the ensemble edy’s central gay uple.

JSE TYLER FERGON’S GAY RIGHTS GROUP TARGETED BY IRS

He’s slated to return to Broadway oppose Jse Williams a 2020 revival of Richard Greenberg’s drama, “Take Me Out, ” which follows a profsnal baseball player (Williams) who out as gay. Earlier this month, he and Mika joed Ellen DeGener, Adam Rippon and the Fab Five of Netflix’s “Queer Eye” the star-studd vio for Taylor Swift’s new sgle and mil nouncement of homophobia, “You Need To Calm Down. The them of homophobia — specifilly sports — still feel wildly relevant.

Jse Tyler Fergon’s portrayal of Mch on ABC’s h edy Morn Fay do not seem like the gay equivalent of that; for starters, Fergon is gay, and he says that his character is merely an extensn of himself. Eric Stontreet (who plays Mch’s hband, Cam), on the other hand, is not a homosexual; perhaps there’s an argument that his character munit some stereotyp that gays may fd offensive, but to equate his performance to “blackface” sounds a b extreme. Neverthels, Tuc Watks, a gay actor who played a gay character on Dperate Hoewiv, wrote a Facebook post that he did not like the portrayal of the homosexual characters the show:.

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.