Was Chandler Bg supposed to be gay Friends?

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• HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
• GAYCHANDLERBG STORI
• HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY

HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY

Chandler had always been gay. #5Joey X Chandlerby BluThis is jt a gay smutfic of joey Tribbiani and chandler Bg om the show F•r•i•e•n•d•s. Seattle-based journalist Matt Bme, however, believ the show uld have end very differently if the creative team’s origal plans for Chandler, played by Matthew Perry, had been a new vio report, Bme ― who is the thor of the 2015 book “Defg Marriage” and the host of “Culture Cise, ” an acclaimed YouTube seri ― lv to thly sourced but persistent reports that the creators of “Friends” had tend for Chandler to be a gay man, but changed him to a straight character after Perry was st.

He also breaks down a number of gay jok ― many of them crgeworthy by morn standards ― prented the show at the character’s expense as evince of a funct plot le. “No, Chandler isn’t gay, ” he said at the time. “Nor will he be gay.

And Perry’s -star Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay, gave crence to that theory a 2014 terview wh the Televisn Amy suggtg that she, too, believed the character was gay at that Chandler posss what he believ is “a gay sensibily, but no gay storyl, ” Bme told HuffPost, “If they had ma fully gay ― wrten gay, played gay ― would that have been a good thg or a bad thg? ”“On one hand, would have been amazg to see a gay ma character on one of the most popular shows TV history, ” he ntued. They’d often repeat the same simple joke, that would be funny if a person was gay....

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[The show] seemed to be at s bt when tellg heterosexual stori, and I’m not sure they uld have pulled off the challenge of featurg TV’s most proment gay ma character. Chandler, intified Season 1 as havg a “qualy” of gayns about him, is endlsly paranoid about beg perceived as sufficiently mascule. In retrospect, the entire show’s treatment of LGBTQ issu is awful, a flt potedly illtrated by the exhstive clip-pilatn “Homophobic Friends.

HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY

” But Chandler’s treatment of his gay father, a Vegas drag queen played by Kathleen Turner, is pecially appallg, and ’s not clear the show knows . Maybe by 2015, Chandler would have gotten some therapy and read some Roxane Gay.