Troll thks Morn Fay's Mch and Cam 'set gay rights back'

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• NO, CAM AND MCH ON ‘MORN FAY’ ARE NOT ‘THE GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLACKFACE’
• CRIC THKS MORN FAY’S MCH AND CAM ‘SET GAY RIGHTS BACK’. HE ULDN’T BE MORE WRONG
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

NO, CAM AND MCH ON ‘MORN FAY’ ARE NOT ‘THE GAY EQUIVALENT OF BLACKFACE’

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.

CRIC THKS MORN FAY’S MCH AND CAM ‘SET GAY RIGHTS BACK’. HE ULDN’T BE MORE WRONG

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.

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.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

We've fought for gay characters on TV to be out and real, not jt strategic avatars signed to feel “cuttg edge. 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. The stereotyp I saw ma me thk, ‘Well, I don”t intify wh that so I mt not be gay.

n we llectively agree that gil thorpe beg gay was one of the greatt cematic plot twists of all time. Mastream attus towards same-sex relatnships have shifted drastilly recent years, and actor Eric Stontreet thks ABC's "Morn Fay" may have somethg to do wh an terview wh The Huffgton Post, Stontreet -- who plays one-half of a gay uple on the show -- ld the show for helpg to change the perceptn of gay characters through pop culture. "ln fact, one woman told him that the show provid visibily for gay upl wh children and helped her dghter keep bulli check.