It's Always Sunny In Philalphia Didn't Always Plan To Make Mac Gay

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• MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
• IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY

MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH

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 IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY

"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. Granted, this won't be happeng anytime soon: Mac's "gay journey, " as were, nclus this season wh Mac g out to his father, which TV Gui hears is not gog to go well at all.

But as Sunny ntu, Mac is gog to ntue livg his thentic self as a gay man, which of urse means fdg Amanda Hugkiss. Revealed as a gay man at the end of the prev season, Mac is still unable to fd his footg the world. “I don’t know where I f as a gay man, and ’s startg to get to me, " Mac tells Danny DeVo's Frank.

He don't see himself as a homosexual for beg attracted to Carmen.