From a young age, Justin Mikita has had a love for performing. His passion got him accepted into UCLA’s theater program. That experience did not go as planned which led to him switching majors and becoming an attorney.

While studying he would meet his husband to be, Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Their work would parallel one another. Jesse changed hearts and minds playing a gay man on ABC’s hit show, Modern Family. Justin worked diligently on the legal front to help overturn California’s controversial Prop 8 and achieve marriage equality across the country.

Justin’s activism has also come through his organization, Tie the Knot, and with the film, Welcome to Chechnya. Today because of their and countless other’s work they get to celebrate their first Father’s Day this weekend with their son Beckett that they welcomed during the pandemic.