Actor Tuc Watks cricized the gay uple on "Morn Fay." Jse Tyler Fergon's rponse was perfect.
Contents:
- NO, CAM AND MCH ON ‘MORN FAY’ ARE NOT ‘THE GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLACKFACE’
- ARE M AND MCHELL GAY REAL LIFE?
- ‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
- HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
- 'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED
- MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG
- HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
NO, CAM AND MCH ON ‘MORN FAY’ ARE NOT ‘THE GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLACKFACE’
* is cam or mitch gay in real life *
We've really missed the two!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 Seri.The uple was much ld for their pictn of everyday married life for a gay uple on an ABC s.
ARE M AND MCHELL GAY REAL LIFE?
Jse Tyler Fergon’s Mch and Eric Stontreet’s Cam are poster boys for gay marriage. Let them eat weddg ke! * is cam or mitch gay in real life *
They also adopted a dghter, Lily, and later another child, beg one of the most visible exampl of a gay fay on TV for years.While fans might be beggg for the whole st to rne, this cute rnn will have to hold over until then.RELATED | Jse Tyler Fergon Jt Announced Birth of First Child.
‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
But, real life, Stontreet is not gay (or, as he put to, he’s “openly straight”) 47-year-old actor is currently datg Ldsay Schwezer, a pediatric nurse, whom he ghed over on “The Ellen DeGener Show” September 2017. It turns out that Morn Fay was the first Amerin show history to have both a gay proposal and a weddg between two gay ma characters.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
Actor Tuc Watks, bt known for his role as David Vickers on “One Life to Live” and Bob Hunter on “Dperate Hoewiv, ” took to his Facebook page to post about Cam and Mch, the gay uple on “Morn Fay” played by Eric Stontreet and Jse Tyler Fergon. “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.
Watks, who joed “One Life to Live” 1994, me out as gay 2013.
We n”t be expected to reprent every gay person. And fense of Cam, I still n”t figure out how a clown & football ach who also happens to be gay is a stereotype.
'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED
Also: Cricizg important gay characters on TV for not beg the kds of gay characters you prefer and thkg that bee you don't want Cam and Mch at your dner party, they mt not be TV-ready.
MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG
There are plenty of real gay people who act like Cam and Mch, jt like there are plenty of gay men who act like the guys on “Lookg, ” “Queer as Folk, ” and “Will and Grace. ” Jt bee you n intify a gay character's gayns thanks to a performer's actg choic don't mean his work is parable to hio racist ritur. You jt sulted every real gay person who relat to Cam and Mch by mistakg your juvenile “ick” rponse as a salient cultural issue.
I thk slammg gay characters as “stereotypil” is a ward's way of sayg, “I'm unfortable acknowledgg that many gay people have specific personaly tras mon. Many gay people have specific personaly tras mon.
We've fought for gay characters on TV to be out and real, not jt strategic avatars signed to feel “cuttg edge.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
If Tuc Watks thks gay behavrs are somethg that should be policed, modified, or crged at, he's fely the dated one.
Many doors have opened gay people”s fight for equaly. I”m glad to have played gay characters, but at the same time have been trated by the stereotyp I feel I”ve been party to playg those rol.