But what should stir up even greater righteous indignation is the fact that separating children from their parents and tearing apart families in the name of the state is our modus operandi. is an ABC sitcom produced by Dan Savage (the man behind the “It Gets Better” campaign), about an Irish-Catholic family’s experience when their teenage son comes out of the closet. It stars Martha Plimpton as Eileen (who has never in her entire career been anything but utterly hilarious), Jay R. Ferguson as Pat (a pitch-perfect sitcom dad), Bebe Wood as Shannon (charming beyond her years), and Matt Shively as Jimmy (who makes an excellent foil for the whole bunch). The main event, though, is Noah Galvin as Kenny — a guy who’s cute, hilarious, just awkward enough to be endearing, and (blessedly) openly gay. “That’s a substantial disruption of school…so this is kind of an exercise of civil disobedience, this is deciding, ‘it’s against the rules, but we think it’s worth doing.’” laptop as she goes to check the results. “I’ve been waiting on this all day,” the actor can be heard saying. “I don’t think I can… I can’t open it.”