Contents:
- ‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED
- WHAT IF THE FRIENDS CHARACTERS WERE GAY?
‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED
Much has been wrten about the legacy of Friends and how, viewed hdsight, was problematic how picted and diststed homosexualy particular. Or the One Where Ross photoshopped Chandler to gay pornography as a prank?
But the many, many exampl seem all the more strange when you disver that, on some level, the wrers were open to the ia that Joey himself was gay. We know seems unlikely that Joey Tribbiani, the most womanisg man the group, was quietly nursg homosexual sir. We know that Chandler seemed the more stereotypil, cliched ndidate thanks to his aforementned 'qualy', or that Ross's explic homophobia uld fact shield unnsc sir.
But 's te: Joey was the one who the wrers explicly referred to as gay one episo, before letg the fal draft. But the origal script - published the tie- book which prted the entire origal script, gave Phoebe an addn: 'Or, "Hey, Joey, you're gay. We know that this statement don't mean that the wrers planned then abandoned a storyle where Joey tly do put women behd him and out as gay.