' Modern Family Members' Celebrity Eric Stonestreet Reveals How Playing Gay Transformed His Life

' Modern Family Members' Celebrity Eric Stonestreet Reveals How Playing Gay Transformed His Life

Eric Stonestreet might not have known any person that was openly gay during his teen years in Kansas, however his Emmy-winning \"Modern Family members\" turn quickly transformed all of that.

The 43-year-old star, that is directly, told HuffPost Stay in a meeting today that he really feels \"much more on the front lines of what it suggests to stand up for people's equality\" after playing Cameron Tucker on \"Modern Family members,\" which was simply renewed for a 7th period.

\" I'm just much more energetic because area and also I feel a little bit more in charge of people's words and activities,\" he stated.

Stonestreet also opened about some early problems he had over tackling the duty, as well as claimed that he felt particularly safety of his co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, that is openly gay, keeping in mind, \"I was stressed initially that I was mosting likely to be part of a gay bashing of types.\"

In 2015, he joked that his personality was a \"bossy, picky bottom,\" adding that lots of gay followers had approached him in hopes of \"challenging\" his sexuality.