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‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
REAL 'MORN FAY': TWO GAY MOMS, ONE GAY DAD AND A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER
'LOVE ALWAYS WS': GAY FATHERS DISCS JOYS AND CHALLENG OF PARENTG MORN AMERI
‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
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‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Meet the big happy Berman-Cotlar fay of Bolr, Colorado. Two tw boys have two gay moms, one gay dad, and a stepsister. * gay dads modern family *

***Warng*** This article ntas d spoilers about the first episo of Morn Fay.Network televisn has given gay parents before. In the third season of Will & Grace, Jack MacFarland learned he was the father of a teenager while the 2003 s It’s All Relative had Christopher Sieber and John Benjam Hickey playg the adoptive parents of a grown dghter, jt to name two exampl.But when ABC buts Morn Fay on Wednday night, will mark the first time a work show has featured two gay men raisg an fant.While the culture wars aren’t what they ed to be, the issue of gay parents is still a fairly ntroversial one Ameri. Some stat currently ban adoptns by gay people while groups such as Foc on the Fay and numero Republin policians cry the ia of any children beg gay raised by gays and lbians.

And don’t even brg up the ia of discsg gay fai U.S. Schools unls you’re prepared for all out war some quarters.While Morn Fay is unlikely to addrs any of the issu too directly or too potedly, simply cludg a gay fay as seri regulars is groundbreakg. Recently chatted wh the show’s two gay dads, Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet, about their rol, whether straight actors should play gay parts and much : Jse, as a gay man yourself, do playg this part have any special signifince for you or is jt another role?Jse Tyler Fergon: It’s fely not jt another role.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI

* gay dads modern family *

I thk anytime you n portray any gay uple on televisn, pecially such a posive light, I thk 's a wonrful thg.

REAL 'MORN FAY': TWO GAY MOMS, ONE GAY DAD AND A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE

We gay dads have pulled through stggl and self-reckongs to plant ourselv parentg and should have the kship nam we want. * gay dads modern family *

He's the breadwner, though I thk Cameron has an tertg job before we pick up wh the two.Mchell isn't embarrassed that we're a gay uple, but he don't want to give people immediate ammunn of what a gay uple would be.

I know 's early on...JTF: I thk what's so tertg right now is jt playg new parents, two nervo dads, and a society where there are not a lot of gay upl raisg kids.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

What's your rponse to someone who was like, "We've seen this kd of gay guy on televisn so many tim."ES: I would say Cameron is, if somebody said flamboyant, I would unter that wh Cameron is a celebratn of, aga, people. If someone wants to ll that flamboyant, then...JTF: Well, 's a reprentatn.ES: Yeah!JTF: That's a cross sectn of gay culture. You're gettg a two-for-one wh that, bee you have this great gay uple on televisn, and not only that, they're reprentg two very different facets of gay culture.

MY GAY DAD, MY QUEER FAY, HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Basilly, he thks bee gay actors still face a fair b of discrimatn playg straight parts, that only gay actors should play gay rol.ES: Who said that?AE: Jonathan Slav.

So you guys are playg very proment gay rol this season. What's your take on that issue?JTF: I like the opportuny to play straight rol as well, so I have a hard time answerg that only gay actors should play gay rol.ES: I would ask Jonathan if he also thks they should put real crimals rol to play crimals on TV. The fact that I'm a straight guy playg a gay character on TV, I jt don't thk matters that much.I have the abily bee of who I am and where I'm om to brg attentn to a e and a movement om a pletely different angle.

'LOVE ALWAYS WS': GAY FATHERS DISCS JOYS AND CHALLENG OF PARENTG MORN AMERI

A gay actor n e that as a platform, and a straight actor n say "I'm so straight and I'm playg a gay character on TV, and you shouldn't re." Tone down.JTF: Also, and ultimately 's jt about the bt actors for the parts.ES: Yeah, 's an dn. I read for him a uple of years ago for Ugly Betty, and was for a gay character.

‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV

What's gog on?" And I said, "Well, I don't know." And he said, "How gay should you play the character?" And I said, "Y! Thank you!" And he go, "Eric, you're gay enough."And I've ed that. I jt brg who I am to the part and let that speak for self, bee Cameron is a person first, a human beg, and gay like third or fourth.