On the Co Swch podst, Ross Gay reflects on his 2019 llectn The Book of Delights, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love."
Contents:
- FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY
Friends wrers origally clud a joke the much-loved TV show about Joey beg secretly gay, but was later cut. * ross friends gay *
As a recent news em volvg a squashed gay-themed storyle remds , Friends is still really, really homophobic. Acrdg to a newly published look behd the scen of the smash s, Generatn Friends: An Insi Look at the Show that Defed a Televisn Era, the show's wrers pched a B-plot which Chandler Bg (Matthew Perry) sneaks to a gay bar, not for the queer mrarie or the love of ABBA songs but bee he lik the tablishment's tuna melts. The male characters on Friends showed a noted disfort and disda toward LGBTQ+ people durg s 10 seasons -- om Chandler's aversn to his transgenr parent (played by Kathleen Turner, still slayg the role) to a particular episo which Ross (David Schwimmer) sists his male nanny mt be anytime LGBTQ+ people are brought up through the show, 's played for lghs -- whether 's the nng joke that people thk Chandler is gay or an episo where Joey (Matt Leblanc) nvc an actg stunt who he is petg for a role on All My Children to play the character "homosexually.
"In perhaps the most on-the-nose pictn of s tenncy toward gay panic for cheap lghs, Joey and Ross eak out the seventh season of Friends after they accintally fall asleep together on the uch. "While would be easy to dismiss Friends as a product of s time, many of s ntemporari were well ahead on LGBTQ+ reprentatn -- om Blanche (Rue McClanahan) learng to embrace her gay brother on The Goln Girlsto the groundbreakg same-sex weddg Roseanne.
Intertgly, when creators David Kffman and Mara Kffman reflected on the storyl they regret, neher of them mentned the show's homophobic history.
HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
He got divorced om his ex-wife who turned out to be gay, he married spunky Br Ey only to say the wrong name at the altar, and he even msed thgs up wh Rachel (who'd he'd been love wh sce high school), but his teractn wh his Cassie (played by Denise Richards) is beyond creepy.