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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' 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' 'S ROB MCELHENNEY CELEBRAT HIS 2 GAY MOMS 'LOVE IS LOVE' MOTHER'S DAY VIO
• ROB MCELHENNEY: PRO-GAY MARRIAGE, RAISED IN A GAY FAY

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.

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

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.

"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. 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.

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.

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

'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. " 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.

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

' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic, ” he elaborated. It's never too late to e out, even when you're a character on a long-nng an terview whRollg Stone, It's Always Sunny Philalphia star Rob McElhenney discsed Mac's slow journey to g out as a gay man, which was revealed at the end of the dark, dark, dark edy's 11th season.

Durg a trip on a Christian cise, Mac attempts to lead a gay uple back to heterosexualy, but the pair cis to "nvert" him McElhenney says the plan wasn't always to have Mac e out, he tells the magaze's Alan Sepwall that the cisn was borne out of the character's "tense, ultranservative, right-leang prcipl. "And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.