It's Always Sunny star Rob McElhenney be latt celeb to clare "gay rights!"

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• 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
• IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY STAR ROB MCELHENNEY BE LATT CELEB TO CLARE “GAY RIGHTS!”
• IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY

'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN 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.

' 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 BE LATT CELEB TO CLARE “GAY RIGHTS!”

"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. 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.

'It's Always Sunny Philalphia' star Rob McElhenney talks about his character Mac g out as gay and what fans n expect Season Sep. In Season 11, the wrers ially had Rob’s character e out as gay to his iends, but he eventually cid to "go back the closet.

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

" So, what prompted Rob (who also -created the show) to make Mac It’s Always Sunny gay? It’s Always Sunny star Rob McElhenney talks about makg Mac an terview wh Rollg Stone, Rob talked about why he cid to make his super nservative character gay.

' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic, ” he elaborated. A or so ago, Mac was ostensibly around season four beme abundantly clear that the only straight Mac was--as Sweet Dee and McElhenney's real-life wife Kal Olsen puts --was "straight up gay. And he wants what any God-fearg Christian man wants:Mac's obssn wh relign is also a direct rult of the guilt he feels for beg gay, a guilt his (played by Seann William Stt) do not share:Bee It's Always Sunny is far om your typil s, Mac's homo guilt don't manift self any typil ways.

Instead, Mac's relign is hot check out his visn of what Heaven is 's ternalized his homosexualy so much that he remas blissfully unaware of jt how gay he is--that is, until the latt episo when all that nuendo me flyg out of the closet and Mac realized what everyone has known all "The Gang Go to Hell, " Mac's relig fanaticism draws the gang to a Christian cise, but 's the kd of Christian cise that wel gays, as Mac fds out too late. When he se a uple kissg on the shuffle board urt, he seeks an answer om God and he cis to nvert the gays--for their own good.