No, Cam and Mch on 'Morn Fay' are not 'the gay equivalent of blackface'

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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.

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

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.