Are the gay guys from modern family really gay
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Actor Eric Stonestreet from 'Modern Family' discussed the impact and response from playing a homosexual character on a trendy television show, saying he hoped he has played a role in transforming perceptions about the homosexual community and helped create people more comfortable with who they are.
Stonestreet told Chris Stigall on Chat Radio 1210 WPHT that he's never approached the role with an agenda and just wanted to develop an well rounded character.
"The job of the comedian and writer is to satirize situations and take a stance on them by not taking a stance on them or really just holding a mirror up and reflecting different viewpoints. When the guys created the show, they knew they couldn't do a exhibit called 'Modern Family' and not include a homosexual couple and it's just the lay of the land right now and will always be. We wanted to create a couple characters that people could relate to and enjoy watching and the agenda has never been to do anything other than make people giggle. That's all we yearn to do is construct people laugh and if that, along doing that, opens people's hearts and minds with the thought that people are people no matter their race, creed, gender,
Dispelling Gay Stereotypes in Family Television: Up-to-date Family’s Cameron (Cam) Tucker and Mitchell (Mitch) Pritchett
Ariana Romio
After following Modern Family (2009) for the past several years and touching on themes and examination in class, I felt that the show both challenges and displays traditional gay stereotypes and serves as a strong subject for analysis. While the general show is not solely focused on LGBTQ characters, as there is a mix of all different positionalities throughout the series, the characters I will focus on are Mitchell (Mitch) Pritchett and Cameron (Cam) Tucker.
About the Show
Created in 2009 by co-creators and producers Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan and aired on ABC, the show follows an untraditional family through their daily lives. Jay Pritchett is the patriarch of the family; father to Cam and Claire, husband to Gloria and step-father to Manny. Claire is married Phil Dunphy and together they have three children: Haley, Alex and Luke. At the beginning of the series Cam an
Jesse Tyler Ferguson Felt “Protected” By ‘Modern Family’ Role After He Was “Gay-Bashed”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson has witnessed first-hand how times have changed since Modern Family.
The Emmy Award nominee reflected on the ABC sitcom’s personal impact after he previously “sort of got lgbtq+ bashed a minute bit” in Las Vegas before starring as gay lawyer Mitchell Pritchett for the entirety of its 11-season sprint from 2009 to 2020.
“It wasn’t anything violent, but it was definitely like, there was negative energy coming at me from a couple that felt uncomfortable around me and my then-boyfriend,” he explained to Nicole Byer on his Dinner’s on Me podcast this week.
“I went [back to Vegas] after Modern Family, and I remember feeling that same negativity initially,” Ferguson added. “But then they would see who it was and they would recognize me from being, ‘Oh, I am homosexual, but I’m also that gay one from TV and I like that show,’ and there would be a change.”
He noted the encounter was “really weird” and his “initial” feeling “
Eric Stonestreet may not have recognizable anyone who was openly lgbtq+ during his adolescent years in Kansas, but his Emmy-winning "Modern Family" turn quickly changed all of that.
The 43-year-old thespian, who is straight, told HuffPost Live in an interview this week that he feels "more on the front lines of what it means to rise up for people's equality" after playing Cameron Tucker on "Modern Family," which was just renewed for a seventh season.
"I'm just more active in that community and I feel a little bit more responsible for people's words and actions," he said.
Stonestreet also opened up about some early concerns he had over tackling the role, and said that he felt particularly protective of his co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who is openly gay, noting, "I was worried from the beginning that I was going to be part of a gay bashing of sorts."
Last year, he joked that his character was a "bossy, fussy bottom," adding that many gay fans had approached him in hopes of "challenging" his sexuality.
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