Contents:
- THE MORN FAY EFFECT: POP CULTURE’S ROLE THE GAY-MARRIAGE REVOLUTN
- MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG
- ‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
- ‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
- 'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED
- ‘MORN FAY’ FALLY THROWS THE GAY MARRIAGE EVERYONE WANTED
THE MORN FAY EFFECT: POP CULTURE’S ROLE THE GAY-MARRIAGE REVOLUTN
ABCIt you look at the trend le for the Gallup poll about Amerin attus towards gay marriage, you’ll see that support for same-sex marriage, after craterg for a year, began to climb toward s now-historic height 2009. 2009 was the year that dienc met Cam and Mch, a gay uple livg together wh an adopted dghter. A 2012 Hollywood Reporter poll found that 27 percent of likely voters said that pictns of gay characters on TV ma them more pro-gay marriage, and there are news acunts of people credg their newfound sympathy toward gay people to Morn urse, televisn has spotlighted queer people for s, both major rol on shows like Will & Grace and Glee, and mor on on shows like All the Fay and Goln Girls.
But the fact remas that each popular pictn of gay life helped enurage works to take chanc on others, and today there’s unprecented diversy reprentatn of sexualy on televisn, as shown programs like Empire and Orange Is the New any of this matter to the Supreme Court, which jt clared gay marriage a legal right? But speculatg on judg’ motiv is a losg task, and the rise natnal support for gay marriage possibly ow ls to ss than do to mographic shifts and polil anizg efforts followg ballot-box feats to pop culture, ’s probably bt to jt foc on what n acplish now, the wake of Obergefell v. Film and TV has helped popularize the ia that gay upl n be “normal”—as banal as Cam and Mch; as dire need of unselg as Cys and Jam on Sndal; as lovgly parental as Stef and Lena on The Fosters.
Same-sex upl, statistics show, often differ om straight on when to divisns of labor, monogamy, and problem-solvg, and many gay people don’t want to get married and won’t after this cisn.
MORN FAY’S BIG, GAY (AND IMPORTANT) WEDDG
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. ” Ever sce Morn Fay accintally beme televisn’s go-to polil lightng rod, the show’s gay uple and the ton they’ve passed together on screen have llaterally bee bean’s of progrs when to what uld broadly be referred to as “acceptance” by the public at might argue that what two televisn characters do on a s should hardly be nsted as “important, ” but as we’ve long learned, polics and pop culture are often extribly tertwed.
Now, ’s apparently OK for two guys to share that bed, ’s impossible to quantify how many words have been voted to the progrs—or, some opn, the lack thereof—when to pictg gay characters on mastream TV.
There are some who reject the ia that Mch and Cam, two characters who are broadly drawn and arguably perpetuate margalizg stereotyp of gay-ish character tras, are the unwtg poster gays for the equal-rights movement, at least some of the more uniated segments of the one thg that’s never been broadly drawn when to Mch and Cam, and much of this is owed to the warm chemistry between stars Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet, is their love. ”From the time that Morn Fay’s brilliant pilot buted and Cam was thstg newly adopted Lily to the air while “Circle of Life” om The Ln Kg played the background—a geni moment one of the most perfect pilots om the last 10 years—Mch and Cam and their gayns were also thst forward, their every actn and even their mere existence, on a mastream seri stantly embraced by crics and viewers alike, was a gay love story that we actually jo the middle.
‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
There were no plots, as there ually are on work TV when gay characters are volved, about g to terms wh their own sexuali, g out of the closet, or nvcg their fai to love them. It was the polil maniftatn of a Sefeld joke, reassurg voters that they don’t hate the gay muny—a verable “not that there’s anythg wrong wh that…”Then me the clamorg for what people wanted Mch and Cam to reprent, more than what they maybe actually did.
And that was, neglectg the fact that they were s characters, a “real” gay uple. And, fally, the petn to have them fally make legal (you know, once California, where the show tak place, ma so a legal gay marriage was actually possible) other words, this was a very special episo of the show, and a landmark episo of televisn, general. ”)There was also the edy of errors stemmg om the mismunitn between Mch and his father, Jay, who he thks isn’t on board wh the ia of the gay weddg but, of urse, uldn’t be more proud.
Jay, a b obtely standg for the ntgent of Amerins who happily endorse gay marriage but don’t know the rrect or acceptable terms for discsg , keeps parg Mch and Cam’s ceremony to a “regular weddg.
‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
When the two men actually said “I do, ” the only thg borrg on a natural disaster was the flood of tears by the guts ’ve seen gay upl get married on TV before. 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.
Hulu buted “The Bravt Knight” last year, an animated fairy tale about a gay dad reuntg his adventur to his adopted dghter. ‘Morn Fay’ Wrer Reveals Emotnal Backstory of ‘Historic’ Gay Marriage Proposal (Exclive).
'MORN FAY' AND GAY MARRIAGE: IT'S COMPLITED
Supreme Court’s June cisn allowg same-sex marriage California, producers of the Emmy-wng edy knew the time was right for s gay uple, Mchell (Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (Eric Stontreet), to take the plunge.
Here, Jefey Richman — one of the 20th Televisn-produced edy’s two openly gay wrer-producers — reveals to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lacey Rose his own words the emotnal procs of wrg Wednday night’s landmark episo …. PHOTOS: My Big, Gay Hollywood Weddg (Fally! I remember we talked a lot about how a proposal would work bee even Abraham Higgbotham and I, the two openly gay wrers the room, didn’t know.
PHOTOS: Gay Marriage, or Not, Global Cema.
‘MORN FAY’ FALLY THROWS THE GAY MARRIAGE EVERYONE WANTED
I was the only gay wrer Chris’ room bee Abraham was the other room, and was jt a natural thg for me to wre . Now that’s not te of particularly “gay” episos, but this one was different. PHOTOS: Straight Actors Gay Rol: From River Phoenix to Michael Douglas.
But you n’t thk of the historic part of — the “Wow, the are the first gay characters on TV to be legally married” part.
Once I step away, though, I realize how unbelievably fortunate I am as a wrer and as a gay person to have participated somethg like this — and on an sanely popular TV show. 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.