For Jack Tripper, 's tough to date openly when 's important for your downstairs neighbor (and landlord) to thk you're gay.
Contents:
MR. ROPER HAS A GAY AWAKENG
Did Roper or Furley ever fd out that Jack wasn't gay? Three's Company * mr roper gay *
” In the Amerin versn, Jack, an aspirg chef, has to pretend to be gay so that his Puranil landlord, Mr.
The prumptn was that a straight man livg wh two women was so sndalo, was better to live a one way, was a progrsive reversal an era when gay men were more likely than they are today to live a lie by stayg closeted.
But of urse Jack wasn’t actually gay, so he relied on certa stereotyp to pretend that he was, and there was no shortage of homophobic jok and, the show seems self-aware, and there’s a sense that the wrers’ sympathi were on the right si. The gay panic maly om Mr. Roper flash his homophobia.