Openly gay actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson
discussed the reasons why he prefers to use the term husband when
referring to his spouse on Sunday's episode of Oprah's Next
Chapter.
Ferguson, a co-star of the ABC hit
sitcom Modern Family, appeared on the program along with actor
Dan Bucatinsky and comedian Wanda Sykes to discuss being gay in
Hollywood.
(Related: Wanda
Sykes: I chose to be straight.)
Winfrey note that her three guests used
the terms wife and husband when referring to their spouses.
“How does it feel to say, 'My
husband?'” Winfrey asked.
“You know, no kid sits in bed
thinking, 'I can't wait to have a domestic partner.' Like, you
always say, 'I want to have a wife or I want to have a husband,'”
Ferguson answered.
“Putting my emergency contact and it
says, 'Relation to you,' I want to say husband. I mean, that is so
special. And that's like, we have fought very hard for that. And
it's a fight that I feel we've come a little bloody from. And so I'm
definitely using that word extremely proudly.” (The video is
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(Related: Wanda
Sykes, Dan Bucatinsky “maddened” by opposition to gay marriage.)