'It's Always Sunny' Star Rob McElhenney Talks Mac Comg Out as Gay

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Ronald "Mac" McDonald is a gay character om FX's It's Always Sunny Philalphia. Mac hails om a workg class Irish-Catholic fay South Philalphia. He is Dennis Reynolds' roommate of many years, and has been bt iends wh Charlie Kelly sce childhood. Mac is a member of The...

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Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * always sunny nothing 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.

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

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. * always sunny nothing gay *

In Wednday night’s “The Gang Group Dat, ” at one pot Dennis refers to Mac as “the gay one” and at another pot when he turns to Mac and tells him that he riv his self worth om “nvcg himself that he’s tough and straight, ” Mac fir back “I am tough.

IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA SEASON 6 EPISO 1: "MAC FIGHTS GAY MARRIAGE" QUOT

‘It’s Always Sunny Philalphia’ creator Rob McElhenney may thk he’s exposg hypocrisy by makg the ultranservative Mac gay, but he’s perpetuatg a trope that absolv the straight muny of rponsibily for homophobia, says Louis Stapl * always sunny nothing gay *

Of urse, what mak the joke work is that Mac himself is probably the only one that don’t know that Mac is gay.

If he were jt a guy stgglg to bottle up his homosexualy, that would jt be prsg, and a different kd of show.

But as a strict Catholic, Mac has reprsed his homosexualy so much that he don’t even unrstand his fatuatn wh badass tough guys is bee he wants to have sex wh them. FXX has renewed Always Sunny for two more seasons followg the 10th, which I n only assume will fally be the seri’ last, and I’m really hopg before ends we get an episo lled “Mac Realiz He’s Gay.

ALWAYS SUNNY'S ROB MCELHENNEY YELLS 'GAY RIGHTS!,' GO VIRAL

Mac Fds His Pri: Directed by Todd Biermann. Wh Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kal Olson. Frank tri to rec Mac for the gang's float for the Gay Pri Para; Frank to the realizatn that Mac will never be secure wh his sexual inty unls he out to his father." data-id="ma * always sunny nothing gay *

” Until then, I’ve put together this timele that outl Mac’s homosexualy as bubbl ever closer to the surface. At this pot the seri, they probably didn’t yet have any tentn to make Mac gay.

GLENN HOWERTON EXPLAS WHY ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ OUTED MAC AS GAY

The stars and executive producers of “It’s Always Sunny Philalphia” always prid themselv on the fact that their cky, cluels characters never learned anythg or evolved. But that changed this season, when Mac (show creator Rob McElhenney) fally accepted that he’s gay. * always sunny nothing gay *

Season Six — “Mac Fights Gay Marriage”. Mac go on a csa agast gay marriage bee after pletg her transn to a woman, Carmen married a man named Nick.

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY STAR ROB MCELHENNEY BE LATT CELEB TO CLARE “GAY RIGHTS!”

It's Always Sunny In Philalphia saw Rob McElhenney's character Mac e out as gay 2016 to his iends, but not his father * always sunny nothing gay *

Mac sists that Nick is gay sce Carmen was born a man, seemg to miss the irony that he had sex wh Carmen before she pleted the operatn, clarg their marriage to be a “gay marriage.

MAC COM OUT AS GAY TO HIS FATHER STUNNG ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY PHILALPHIA’ DANCE SEQUENCE: WATCH

'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season 14. * always sunny nothing gay *

This is the episo, which the gang participat a day that revolv pletely around Mac, they fally and fively realize: “I know we’ve never said this as a group, but Mac’s gay. Mac’s “Country Mac” shows up — and not only is he tougher and more of a badass every sgle way than Mac is, but he’s also openly gay.

While geics have never been scientifilly proven to have a role sexual orientatn, ’s always been a strongly held theory, so would make sense that Mac would have a gay . (Actually two gay s, as Mac ns to another gay Paddy’s the seri premiere when they accintally turn to a gay bar. ” But jt to le out, he volunteers to see if the leprechn might have a pot of gold at the end of the rabow — this se the “rabow” beg a fictnal Philalphia gay bar actually lled The Rabow, which he bravely volunteers to search solo.

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

When the gang cis to go on a booze-ee Christian cise, Mac is ially flummoxed to meet a married Christian gay uple, pletely throwg a wrench to his nstant ternal stggle.

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” Unfortunately after the boat almost sks wh them locked the brig, the near ath experience leads Mac to believe that God was jt ttg him and he’s not gay after all. 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. ' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.

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Always Sunny's Rob McElhenney Yells 'Gay Rights!,' Go Viral .

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