Aubrey Frances Anderson-Emmons joined the cast of Modern Family in its third season, when she was only four years old, playing Lily Tucker-Pritchett, noted fictional gay couple Mitchell and Cam’s adopted daughter.

Yesterday, on a sunny Bloomsday in the middle of Pride Month, Aubrey came out as bisexual with a lip-sync to an oft-quoted Modern Family scene in which Gloria tells her, “You are Vietnamese,” and Lily protests “No I’m not, I’m gay, I’m gay!” (Because her parents are gay, get it?) Then Mitchell says “Honey, no, you’re not gay. You are just confused!”

“People keep joking abt me being gay when I literally am (I’m bi),” she wrote upon the video.

She also shared a clip from her new song (which will debut on the 25th) where she is slow-dancing with a girl in the video!

Aubrey played Lily on Modern Family, a television show about three adult couples who hate each other and the children they are bringing into the world, for 163 episodes, from 2011-2020. During that time she also turned up on Bill Nye Saves the World and Paradise Run, playing herself. In 2012, at the age of 4, she became the youngest actor to receive a Screen Actors Guild Award, as part of Modern Family‘s ensemble cast. She and her mother, Amy (a stand-up comic, actor and manager) , started a YouTube Channel, FoodMania Review, in 2015, where they posted fun videos about food for around five years.

Aside from appearing in a short film, Tailwinds, in 2024, it seems Audrey has mostly been focused on her music, recording under the name Frances Anderson, since the conclusion of Modern Family.  On her instagram she is seen participating in important queer activities like playing a guitar, wearing a white dress by a tree and hanging out with farm animals at a barn with her friends!

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In conclusion, as Aubrey herself wrote on her coming out instagram post, “happy pride month to all and to all a goodnight hehehe”!!

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“Imagine getting raked over the coals by Ron Swanson himself.”

Lindsey Weedston

Posted on June 3 2025 12:58 pm CDT

Actor Nick Offerman had no patience for an X user who took a Parks and Recreation gif and turned it into an anti-Pride meme. His response turned homophobic imagery posted on the first day of Pride Month into a celebratory moment for the LGBTQ+ community.

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Though Ron Swanson was a self-described libertarian, he rejected bigotry and would have told the government to stay out of queer folks’ business.

The Pride of Nick Offerman

On June 1, right-wing X user @realmflynnJR posted an altered version of a popular GIF of Parks and Recreation character Ron Swanson throwing his computer in a dumpster. Michael Flynn Jr., son of President Donald Trump’s former U.S. national security advisor, replaced the computer with a Pride flag.

“No quotes today,” he wrote. “Just wanted to post how I feel about ‘Pride’ month.”

The next day, Nick Offerman discovered the Pride-hating post and used Swanson’s characteristic gruffness to respond.

“Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb f*ck,” he said in a quote tweet.

Swanson performed this honor for characters Craig and Typhoon in the series finale. Not only that, but he was also an unashamed patron of the local Pawnee gay bar The Bulge.

Offerman himself also played a gay character in a highly acclaimed episode of The Last of Us that celebrated the relationship between two older men trapped in a zombie apocalypse together. During his acceptance speech for the Independent Spirit Award he won for that performance, he condemned homophobia.

“Thanks to HBO for having the guts to participate in this storytelling tradition that is truly independent,” he said. “Stories with guts that when homophobic hate comes my way, and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ we say, ‘Because you ask questions like that.’”

That’s one brutal ratio

The difference between the response to Flynn’s post vs. Offerman’s suggests that bigoted hate hasn’t yet entirely overrun X. Flynn Jr. got just 2,800 likes with his gif alongside 2,300 comments, while Offerman gained over 429,000 likes.

LGBTQ+ folks, allies, and Parks and Recreation fans came in droves to praise this fantastic kick off to Pride Month 2025—and, occasionally, to rub it in some deserving faces.

“General Sidney just put the homophobes in their place,” said @trygraptor with an image of another Offerman character.

User @TheAlexisKraft referenced another moment in Parks and Recreation in which Leslie Knope rubs her arm on Swanson’s face.

“I have goosebumps. Feel,” she says.

Meanwhile, @mutedcredits replied to Flynn with Offerman’s response just to make sure the man knows what’s up.

“Every piece of art you have ever enjoyed is made by people who hate you,” they pointed out.

“Imagine getting raked over the coals by Ron Swanson himself,” wrote @sharii_ann. “Dude should just deactivate.”

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