‘Morn Fay’ Gay Marriage Proposal: Wrer Reveals Emotnal Backstory (Exclive) – The Hollywood Reporter

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Jse Tyler Fergon says 'Morn Fay' star Eric Stontreet, who is straight, often picked his bra while portrayg Cam as a gay man.

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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.

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). 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.

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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. “Suated wh the manicured suburbs of California, Morn Fay, an ABC suatnal edy styled as a “mockumentary”, follows the liv of three fai: Jay Prchett, his send wife Gloria and her son, Manny; Jay’s olst dghter, Claire her hband Phil, and their three children; and Jay’s gay son Mch, his partner Cam and their adopted dghter om Vietnam, Lily. The show was one of the first to have two openly gay characters—Mchell and Cameron Prchett (played by Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet, rpectively)—on prime-time TV.

However, her most ser relatnship has been wh on-aga, off-aga boyiend Dylan, played by openly gay actor Reid Ewg, who's appeared episos as early as Morn Fay's pilot. Together, they make up one of the most high-profile gay upl on prime time.

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' 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.

So I would never want to be like, 'Hey, I'm not gay. 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’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)

" 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. 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.

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Mch sisted the uple uldn't die the quake bee "if they fd the outfs 's gog to be very bad for the gays.

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US televisn fally out wh Morn Fay's gay weddg .

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