Mack Gay Associat, PA

Contents:

• IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
• MAC GAY
• 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
• IS BERNIE MAC GAY?

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY

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.

MAC GAY

' 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.

'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC 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.

IS BERNIE MAC GAY?

"The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia. We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay.

Of the rpective idsyncrasi of The Always Sunny Philalphia gang — such as Charlie beg illerate and Dennis beg a sexual predator — one of the funnier nng gags throughout the seri has been Mac’s latent homosexualy.