Here's Why Some 'Friends' Fans Thk Chandler Was Origally Meant To Be Gay | HuffPost Entertament

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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.

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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.... [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.

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

In retrospect, the entire show’s treatment of LGBTQ issu is awful, a flt potedly illtrated by the exhstive clip-pilatn “Homophobic Friends. ” 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.

Chandler Muriel Bg is the son of erotic novelist Nora Tyler Bg and cross-drsg burlque star Charl "Helena Handbasket" Bg, who performs his all-male burlque show, 'Viva Las Gay-gas' Las Vegas, where they live. He gets nfed after fdg out that his -workers thk he's gay and nsults the Friends, who say that they thought that too when they met him for the first time. His father owns an all male gay burlque show: Viva Las Gay-gas.

The two start off on the wrong foot when Chandler is lookg for a roommate and Joey to fill the slot, rrectly assumg that Chandler is gay. Gay nuendo and Bromance[]. Chandler often fds himself difficult suatns or makg statements that make him sound homosexual, due to his father's fluence.