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8 OPENLY GAY BILLNAIR
Rob McElhenney, creator and star of It's Always Sunny Philalphia, spoke about the cisn to make his character Mac openly gay on the ntroversial s. * gay rich mac *
In an episo entled “Hero or Hate Crime?, ” Frank (Danny DeVo) appeared to have saved Mac’s life by llg his attentn to a piano fallg, Looney Tun-style, om the sky—and so dog, ed a vulgar anti-gay slur. (It’s been heavily signaled through the show’s history that he, ed, is gay but that his abily to adm this even to himself is occlud by endls personal hang-ups. ) Durg a subsequent arbratn ssn, Mac realiz he n n the others out of money if he says, or adms, he’s gay, makg Frank’s language hate speech.
“I claim to be gay! I’m gay. Though Mac’s iends have all borne wns to his latent homosexualy and urged him to e out (cludg by troducg a special vice of his, too vulgar to scribe here, to evince at arbratn), they’re outright enuragg him to go back to the closet.
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No one on the show has a problem wh a hypothetil stranger beg gay, but for Mac (who is not merely their iend but an unkempt MMA obssive entirely herent wh whatever is the mon stereotype of an out gay person) to e out is, spe their claims to want him out, a stabilizg and odd b of news.
Unlike other gay characters on TV, he’s somethg ls than a role-mol when to bearg or personal groomg. It’d have been easier for a show on which stasis is the norm to have a long-nng joke about his attractn to men, edgg up to the le of antigay sentiment but pullg back jt enough so that the dience knew was all good fun. “Gay Mac l!
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When asked a Rollg Stone terview when the show started toyg around wh the ia of makg Mac gay, Rob McElhenney explaed:.
' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic. So we began gog down that road: Let's satirize that hard Christian nservative who is also tensely homophobic.
And that's when I thought, 'Let's jt make him gay. The "homophobe who's secretly gay" trope is well-trodn ground, but 's rarely been wrten as sharply (or taken to as much of an extreme) as was wh Mac over the years.
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In season 9 he asks the gang to jo him greasg up a bunch of "beefk" while still beg a supposedly vout Christian who nsirs homosexualy an abomatn. " which Mac realiz, through an absurd legal loophole, that he n claim a wng lottery ticket jt by sayg he's gay. He out of the closet, chantg, "Gay Mac l!
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New gay Mac largely jt wants to be loved and accepted, even though he'll probably never achieve that goal. This, however, was an earnt moment which Mac (played by seri creator Rob McElhenney) fally found the means wh which to exprs himself and affirm his inty as a newly out gay man. So we began gog down that road: Let’s satirize that hard Christian nservative who is also tensely homophobic.
And that’s when I thought, 'Let’s jt make him gay. "Gags about Mac's sexualy had long been one of the show's many nng jok, but jt as the show had skewered racist and sexist viewpots before, so too were viewers ved to lgh at the characters' homophobic ments, not wh them. "The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly.
"The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia.