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

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• ROB MCELHENNEY OPENS UP ABOUT DECISN TO MAKE HIS ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ CHARACTER MAC COME OUT AS GAY
• 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' 'S ROB MCELHENNEY CELEBRAT HIS 2 GAY MOMS 'LOVE IS LOVE' MOTHER'S DAY VIO
• IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY STAR ROB MCELHENNEY BE LATT CELEB TO CLARE “GAY RIGHTS!”
• IS ROB MCELHENNEY GAY?
• NO, ROB MCELHENNEY IS NOT GAY, HE IS MARRIED TO KAL OLSON, KIDS AND NET WORTH
• 'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' STAR ROB MCELHENNEY TALKS DECISN TO MAKE MAC GAY
• ROB MCELHENNEY: PRO-GAY MARRIAGE, RAISED IN A GAY FAY
• ALWAYS SUNNY'S ROB MCELHENNEY YELLS 'GAY RIGHTS!,' GO VIRAL

ROB MCELHENNEY OPENS UP ABOUT DECISN TO MAKE HIS ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ CHARACTER MAC COME OUT AS 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.

"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.

'IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY' 'S ROB MCELHENNEY CELEBRAT HIS 2 GAY MOMS 'LOVE IS LOVE' MOTHER'S DAY VIO

"The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia.

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

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. Photograph: Everett/REX Shutterstock/REX_ShutterstockIt was also a way for McElhenney, whose parents separated when he was eight after his mother began a relatnship wh a woman, to send a msage to the show’s gay fans.

IS ROB MCELHENNEY GAY?

He also talked about the cisn to have his character, Mac, e out as gay at the end of the last season. ” And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.

NO, ROB MCELHENNEY IS NOT GAY, HE IS MARRIED TO KAL OLSON, KIDS AND NET WORTH

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. 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.

The actor, who plays gay nservative character Ronald “Mac” McDonald on edy seri It’s Always Sunny Philalphia, was asked by a fan to shout “gay rights! GAY MOTHERFUCKING RIGHTS!

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

In an terview wh Deadle, McElhenney said he has “always been part of the gay muny” bee he was raised by two women and has two brothers that intify as gay. In the 12th season of It’s Always Sunny Philalphia, McElhenney’s character me out as gay after was suated for 11 seasons that he was closeted due to his obssn wh men’s physiqu and his relig views on homosexualy.

ROB MCELHENNEY: PRO-GAY MARRIAGE, RAISED IN A GAY FAY

In a recent terview wh Rollg Stone, McElhenney said the character’s homosexualy was “born out of his tense, ultranservative, right-leang prcipals” and that worked “retroactively” when lookg back at prev seasons.

“And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.

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

McElhenney said the show rarely panrs to the dience, but bee Mac was the closet and “doubled down on his homophobia” to make seem like he wasn’t gay, they cid to make him homosexual to “poke fun at the hypocrisy”. “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.