Ty Burrell, who won an Emmy playing
Phil Dunphy on ABC's Wednesday night comedy Modern Family, has
credited the show's gay couple with advancing gay rights.
Mitch (played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson)
and Cam (Eric Stonestreet) are one of the three couples at the center
of the sitcom. They are raising their adoptive daughter Lily.
“I have family members that I don't
necessarily need to name, that felt one way [about gay rights] five
years ago and feel a different way now,” Burrell told The
Hollywood Reporter. “And I do really think that has
something to do [with seeing] gay people living the same lives as
everybody else. And I think that, sort of weirdly enough, that
banality, is revolutionary.”
“Just seeing Mitch and Cam dealing
with the kid trying to sleep, trying to figure out how to dress them
for Halloween, fighting about who's the breadwinner. Everything is,
other than a few small things, is essentially the same.”
(Related: Eric
Stonestreet: Obama, Mitt Romney agree on Modern
Family.)