Is cam really gay on modern family
Dispelling Gay Stereotypes in Family Television: Modern Family’s Cameron (Cam) Tucker and Mitchell (Mitch) Pritchett
Ariana Romio
After following Modern Family () for the past several years and touching on themes and analysis 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 exhibit is not solely focused on LGBTQ characters, as there is a mix of all other positionalities throughout the series, the characters I will focus on are Mitchell (Mitch) Pritchett and Cameron (Cam) Tucker.
About the Show
Created in 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 tog
Eric Stonestreet may not have known anyone who was openly gay during his adolescent years in Kansas, but his Emmy-winning "Modern Family" turn quickly changed all of that.
The year-old actor, 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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Eric Stonestreet won two Emmy Awards for playing Cameron Tucker, a flamboyant gay man in Modern Family. To say it&#;s a convincing portrayal is truly a testament to Eric&#;s acting skills — considering he identifies as straight.
&#;I kind of always felt like I had to dig myself out of a bit of a hole and permit girls know that I&#;m actually straight,&#; Eric joked in
Even though Eric says he&#;s &#;openly straight,&#; he has no difficulty playing a gay man on television. On-screen fiance Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who is gay, doesn&#;t view it as an issue, either.
&#;He is so game for this character. We just clicked. We hang out a lot,&#; Jesse told Out Magazine in , the year Modern Family debuted. &#;Really, the chemistry is what dictated how the relationship was. I&#;m certainly falling in love with Eric Stonestreet more and more each day!&#;
The pair also has a running joke about Eric being &#;gay for pay.&#;
&#;He&#;s straight in real life, and they pay him X amount of dollars to be gay,&#; Jesse said on Inside the Actors Studio in &#;And wouldn&#;t anybody?&#;
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Eric Stonestreet Shares the Biggest 'Honor' of Playing Cam on 'Modern Family'
June 5, &#; -- It's only been two weeks since the "Modern Family" season finale, where Mitch and Cam tied the knot in a game-changing TV wedding.
Eric Stonestreet, who plays Cam on the show, told ABC News that "it was a meaningful episode, for us, for the show, for the arc of Mitch and Cam, but it was an significant episode for so many viewers."
Stonestreet, 42, said once Prop 8 was overturned in California, it really "paved the way" for the show to tell the story of Mitch and Cam, two gay men, getting married in a quirky, "Modern Family" way.
Read: Why the 'Modern Family' Wedding Finale Had Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tears
Related: 'Modern Family's' Jesse Tyler Ferguson Shares the Biggest Perk of Being Married
Getting to marry Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Mitch on the show was not just emotional for viewers, but the for the actors, as well.
"We had shot all that day doing some of the things leading up to it," he s