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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. * mac brody 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.

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"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.

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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. Why the ‘It’s Always Sunny’ wrers cid to make Mac gay. McElhenney says the cisn to make Mac gay was actually born out of the character’s ultra-nservative beliefs.

’ And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic. And that’s when I thought, ‘Let’s jt make him gay.

Though may seem like the plan was always for Mac to be gay, McElhenney says the velopment me to them later.

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But somethg that ught their attentn was the reactn they received when Mac me out as gay. “There was an episo where we had a nng gag that Mac was the closet and refed to e out, and everyone there knew he was gay except for him.

The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly.

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

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