CNN has an article about gay characters on prime time TV, and of urse they talked to our favore gay uple om Morn Fay. Here are some of the thgs
Contents:
- 'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED
- MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG
- MORN FAY GAY COUPLE AND CNN
- STT D. PIERCE: ‘MORN FAY’ SERV PRAISE FOR CLN AND BRICKBATS FOR GAY STEREOTYP
- DO MORN FAY STEREOTYP A GAY UPLE?
- ‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
- THE MORN FAY EFFECT: POP CULTURE’S ROLE THE GAY-MARRIAGE REVOLUTN
- ‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
- JSE TYLER FERGON: 'MORN FAY GAY UPLE IS IMPORTANT'
'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED
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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.
MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG
The 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. And, remember, the ABC s buted six years before same-sex marriage was legalized the Uned Stat. * modern family gay couple friends *
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.
ABCIn a slightly prsg lumn on sex and televisn earlier this week, Washgton Post TV cric Tom Shal sgled out Morn Fay for s portrayal of gay characters. The show, he said, "picts a gay-male marriage which both partners are rehgly dimensnal, believable human 're not flawed the silly, stereotypil ways that once domated such portrayals.
MORN FAY GAY COUPLE AND CNN
Marni Caldas om The Examer asked today whether Morn Fay stereotyp a gay uple: Yet the qutn is about the cln of a gay uple, which * modern family gay couple friends *
" This statement highlights both how far Morn Fay has e—and how far still has to go when to gay upl Stontreet—the actor who plays Cam, one half of the uple Shal prais his lumn—told me he's proud that the show treats his character's fay like an equal rner of the three fai who make up Morn Fay's supportg triangle. He appreciat that the seri don't need to dwell obssively on the fact that the show portrays a lovg, healthy, stable fay head by two gay parents.
STT D. PIERCE: ‘MORN FAY’ SERV PRAISE FOR CLN AND BRICKBATS FOR GAY STEREOTYP
It's alright for the dience to know that gay upl kiss. But apparently, the lculatn is that, we're jt too jumpy to actually watch a very realistic middle-aged and half-overweight gay uple share even a relatively chaste smooch on the show walks an tertg le on qutns of gay inty and sometim miss out on opportuni to nont homophobia. Mch sisted the uple uldn't die the quake bee "if they fd the outfs 's gog to be very bad for the gays.
" It was a self-aware ltle le about the gay muny's own ternal bat about perceptn and reputatn. But acquired a sour note later the show when Nathan Lane showed up to portray an overdramatilly swishy stereotype of the kd Shal mend Morn Fay for wasn't the first time Morn Fay has mocked one kd of gay performance to showse the normaly of a gay fay.
DO MORN FAY STEREOTYP A GAY UPLE?
In a first-season episo, the characters assumed a iend of Jay, the fay patriarch, was gay bee of his mannerisms.
‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
Her slip to a sual, homophobic teenage mdset isn't shockg. It's an example of the kds of promis straight Amerins make around sexual orientatn all the time, lovg fay or iends whout fully mtg to their stggl for legal and societal show ma a joke of Mch's rponse to perceived homophobia the earlit mut of the seri' premiere episo.
THE MORN FAY EFFECT: POP CULTURE’S ROLE THE GAY-MARRIAGE REVOLUTN
But if he'd been the room when Haley had her slip, the scene uld have validated his fears of homophobia—and challenged his extend fay—by revealg the gap between how much the Duphys love Mch, Cam and Lily, and how much they're still fluenced by larger societal views of gay importantly, there's a factual error Shal' asssment of Mch and Cam's relatnship: they aren't actually married, somethg Stontreet nfirmed for me. It's not a particularly radil thg to show a gay uple raisg a child together anymore. But at a time when equal marriage rights are a state-by-state battleground, Morn Fay might nsirg makg Cam, Mch, and Lily legally, as well as socially, equal wh the other fai on the 's no qutn that Morn Fay's gay fay is ft, well-sketched, funny and sweet.
Together, they make up one of the most high-profile gay upl on prime time.
‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
' 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.
JSE TYLER FERGON: 'MORN FAY GAY UPLE IS IMPORTANT'
So I would never want to be like, 'Hey, I'm not gay. In what is, at the most, a major moment televisn history and, at the very least, a quiet step forward for the marriage equaly movement, TV’s most award and send most-watched edy seri aired a gay the bate over the legalizatn of gay marriage makg headl on a daily basis, ’s hard not to read to the fact that 10.