Gearing up for the return of Scotty and Kevin...

Season three of "Brothers & Sisters" is right around the corner and that means lots of fresh material on Kevin and Scotty, the couple played by Luke MacFarlane (above) and Matthew Rhys. It's been a wonderful storyline for the show, for viewers and for society - especially with the scary Sarah Palin's of the world fighting against equal rights for gays. Kevin and Scotty on prime-time TV and Luke and Noah on daytime's "As the World Turns" and the just married Ellen DeGeneres put us into people's living rooms in a way that is positive and real and not shame-based.

What's even better about Luke Macfarlane is that after two years of playing Scotty, he came out publicly as a gay man in an interview with the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.

I had a wonderful chat with Luke last spring and he said of coming out: "I'll say that I decided to do that interview, I decided to answer those questions in an effort to make my life simpler and that's going to contunue to be my motto."

There are more Kevin and Scotty photos at AfterElton.com.

Earlier posts:
-- Exclusive: Matthew Rhys and Luke Macfarlane on their Television Nuptials-- Kevin and Scotty are Hitched in Beautiful Ceremony
-- Videos: My Favorite Kevin and Scotty Scenes
-- The "Brothers & Sisters" Siblings Talk About the Union of Kevin and Scotty