‘Morn Fay’ Fale: What Cam & Mchell Did for Gay Fai on TV – IndieWire

Contents:

• ‘MORN FAY’ FALE: HOW CAMERON AND MCHELL FOREVER CHANGED GAY FAI ON TV
• THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE AND THE PROBLEM WH MORN FAY
• GAY STEREOTYPG 'MORN FAY' COMEDY
• ‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)
• REAL 'MORN FAY': TWO GAY MOMS, ONE GAY DAD AND A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE

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

Mchell then tells him that he believ Shorty is gay. Shorty tells him, however, that he is not gay, but that he ow a bookie $20, 000.

It turns out that Mchell never believed that Shorty is gay, and that he was teachg Jay a lson for troducg Cameron as "a iend of my son's". 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.

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. So a homosexual marriage is great and "morn" but 2 heterosexual men(olr men who don't know how much time they have left wh eachother) n't ll eachother their bt iend? 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).

THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE AND THE PROBLEM WH MORN FAY

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. It is part due to another one of the show’s major achievements: further normalizg gay upl and fai pop culture. In fact, a 2012 poll found that 27 percent of likely voters were more pro-gay marriage after seeg gay characters on televisn.

It is the latter that Morn Fay falls and Mch do not accurately reprent the gay muny. Therefore, we n nfintly place the uple the middle or upper-middle Fay’s characterizatn of Cam and Mch perpetuat the ‘myth of gay affluence’: the belief that a disproportnate amount of gay people are fancially well-off.

GAY STEREOTYPG 'MORN FAY' COMEDY

Televisn and pop culture plays a signifint role promotg this myth bee rever gay people for skills, terts, and actns that are nnected wh the upper middle class.

As noted Whose Gay Communy? Social Class, Sexual Self-Exprsn, and Gay Communy Involvement, “Gay mal and, to a lser extent, lbians, are picted as havg the affluence to be relatively high nsumers of goods, wh profsnal or whe llar occupatns, ” This pictn mak gays valuable to marketers. Joshua Gamson not The Intersectn of Gay Street and Straight Street that gay men are ed by advertisers to “cheerlead for nsumptn…Gay men’s stereotyped affy for home, leisure, and body profsns mak them an pecially good f for [those typ of] programmg.

‘MORN FAY’ WRER REVEALS EMOTNAL BACKSTORY OF ‘HISTORIC’ GAY MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (EXCLIVE)

” Gamson go on to argue that “It is this that the gay men are celebrated [on televisn]: they are master shoppers, and excellent stctors participatn upper middle class urban culture. ”In this way, televisn has moved beyond jt acceptg gay men to actually flntg them. The problem is, televisn only flnts wealthy gay men.

The advertisements and programs engra viewers’ mds that the gay muny is one-dimensnal and that gay men are only eful society for providg fashn or home advice. Although Cam may be a football ach and Mch may be a lawyer, Morn Fay also pends on and rerc gay stereotyp.

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

Whether be valug expensive furnure over people or equatg succs wh fashn prows, the characters Morn Fay ntue to suggt that the qutsential gay life is an upper middle class life domated by nstant ncern about appearanc and expensive viewers are ptivated by Cam and Mch (and their stereotype-pendant humor), there are entire segments of the LGBT populatn that are missg om the limelight. ” More specifilly, 24% of lbian women are poor pared to 19% of heterosexual women and 15% of gay men are poor pared to 13% of heterosexual men. ” When televisn nsistently only shows well-off gay mal, viewers n be brawashed to fet that the LGBT muny too fac poverty, unemployment, homelsns, workplace discrimatn, and much Nathan McDermott argu The Myth of Gay Affluence, “This misrmatn is more damagg than simple ignorance.

It holds back the entire gay equaly movement. In his dissentg opn, Jtice Anton Slia argued that the Colorado state nstutnal amendment (that was overturned the se), which prohibed legal protectns for gays and lbians, was an “entirely reasonable provisn.

” He went on to argue that bee gays “have high disposable e…they posss polil power much greater than their numbers. ”It is exactly the misguid beliefs about gay affluence that n make people, cludg a Supreme Court Jtice, believe that gays do not need or serve feral ernment polici (such as anti-discrimatn polici) to aid battg myth of gay affluence even unrm the effect of existg ernment aid and fancial assistance. Barbara Raab, a senr producer at NBC, argu that the stigmatizatn around beg gay and poor n prevent those people om gog out and applyg for the aid they need.