Joey om "Friends" was gay & closeted joke cut om season 4 fale - LGBTQ Natn

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• JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
• ‘JOEY, YOU’RE GAY!’: INSI THE SURPRISG FRIENDS JOKE THE WRERS REMOVED
• FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY

JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE

A joke about Joey Tribbiani beg gay was cut om an episo of Friends, an early versn of the script revealed. Reported that a draft script for the season four fale, “The One Wh Ross’s Weddg, ” had a joke where Phoebe said that Joey is gay. Related: Was Chandler om “Friends” meant to be gay?

But the draft script, she adds another joke: “Or ‘Hey, Joey, you’re gay. Friends has faced cricism recent years due to the show’s negative portrayal of LGBTQ people, cludg the humanizg way Chandler’s transgenr parent was treated, the immature lbian jok Ross’s ex-wife Carol was the butt of, and the nstant fear male characters the show lived of beg thought of as gay, g them to fear and lgh at boys and men who dance, take re of children, or play wh dolls (gay, gay, and so gay that ’s OK to be mean to your own child over).

What’s unual about Phoebe’s cut joke is that was ually Ross and Chandler who were spected of beg gay, not womanizg Joey. And perhaps that’s why the joke didn’t make the fal ed: ’s possible that Joey’s entire character was a refully nstcted fa for a closeted gay man, but that’s a long, arduo path for a s to go down jt for a rather un-funny zger that isn’t even need bee immediately followed one that ma the same pot. Gay Republin group touts support for anti-trans legislatn & mocks out sger T.

‘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.

FRIENDS WRERS CUT A JOKE ABOUT JOEY BEG SECRETLY GAY

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. When he fds out that one of his stunts is up for the same role, he attempts to sabotage the stunt's efforts by enuragg him to play the character gay.

He is ially shunned by Chandler when he rrectly assum that he is gay. Friends wrers ially clud a joke about Joey beg secretly gay.