Jesse Tyler Ferguson has gay porn to thank for helping him come out to his father. In an interview with Aisha Tyler for her podcast Girl On Guy he said his official coming out took place when, as a teen, he was caught shoplifting XXX material.

 

"Well, I was caught stealing gay porn when I was 14," Ferguson explained. "So, I always considered that my coming-out. ... It was so humiliating. I had been stealing porn for a while. I had quite a little collection. And I would bring it into the house, and then I'd get nervous, so I'd hide it under the mattress, or I'd hide it behind a shed in the backyard. And then it would get rained on, and I'd have to go get the barbecue tongs to [get it out]."

 

Then one day he tried to steal some porn with a sensor on it.

 

"I had to go back, and the woman asked me if I had anything in my backpack. She was giving me the benefit of the doubt. ... She took me to the back room. They brought my dad in, and they showed him the nature of the material I was stealing, and it was really, really humiliating. So I always consider that my coming-out process.

 

"When I stole the porn [my dad] was like, 'OK, are you gay?' And I was, like, 14. I didn't really know. I didn't know what I was going through. But then in my later teen years I did come out to him, and it was like he needed to be told three times. ... [When I was 21] he asked me if I had a girlfriend at the time, and I was like, 'Dad! You know I'm gay, right?'"

 

Ferguson said that, in time, his father learned to fully embrace his son's sexuality.

 

Sometimes a well-placed magazine of men sucking cock can say what we can't.