This weekend Friends fished filmg a rnn episo, slated to appear on HBO Max at some pot, which has me thkg about jt how close the show me to featurg what uld have been the most proment gay s character history. Shownners me this close to makg the Chandler character gay, only pullg back after they st Matthew Perry. But spe havg straightened Chandler out, creators Marta Kffman and David Crane gave the st...
Contents:
- GAY TV HISTORY: THE STRAIGHTENG OF CHANDLER BG
- HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
- GAY-UNIENDLY MATTHEW PERRY REFED A ‘FRIENDS’ STORYLE WHICH HAD CHANDLER SNEAKG TO A GAY BAR, ACRDG TO NEW BOOK
- MATTHEW PERRY REPORTEDLY REFED TO DO A FRIENDS SCENE VOLVG A GAY BAR
- TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
- HOW MATTHEW PERRY KILLED A GAY STORY FOR HIS CHARACTER ‘FRIENDS’
- WAS CHANDLER BG ORIGALLY GAY ON FRIENDS? EVEN LISA KUDROW THOUGHT SO
GAY TV HISTORY: THE STRAIGHTENG OF CHANDLER BG
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We all know this gay uple.
HERE'S WHY SOME 'FRIENDS' FANS THK CHANDLER WAS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY
Acrdg to a behd-the-scen book, Matthew Perry reportedly refed to do a Friends scene volvg Chandler a gay bar. * chandler bing gay episode *
FriendsThis weekend Friends fished filmg a rnn episo, slated to appear on HBO Max at some pot, which has me thkg about jt how close the show me to featurg what uld have been the most proment gay s character history.
Shownners me this close to makg the Chandler character gay, only pullg back after they st Matthew Perry.
GAY-UNIENDLY MATTHEW PERRY REFED A ‘FRIENDS’ STORYLE WHICH HAD CHANDLER SNEAKG TO A GAY BAR, ACRDG TO NEW BOOK
In the latt TV Legends Revealed, learn whether Chandler was nceived of as gay until Matthew Perry was st and the character was re-wrten. * chandler bing gay episode *
But spe havg straightened Chandler out, creators Marta Kffman and David Crane gave the st and crew explic stctns to reta the gay vibe: “wre gay, ” they told everyone, “and play straight.
MATTHEW PERRY REPORTEDLY REFED TO DO A FRIENDS SCENE VOLVG A GAY BAR
The weirdly queerphobic show would have had a story about Chandler Bg sneakg to a gay bar. * chandler bing gay episode *
I wonr, lookg back now, if they had allowed Chandler to be gay — or bi, or any other flavor of queer — would that have been better? When Friends premiered, dienc stantly picked up on the gay unrton.
I was bg through newspaper archiv om the mid-90s, and a surprisg amount of the verage is voted to slow, patient explanatns that Chandler isn’t gay — really, we promise.
TV LEGENDS: WAS CHANDLER ON FRIENDS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
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On top of that, Chandler’s d as queer a way that would have been faiar to dienc of the time — not only bee he’s sassy and sarstic, but bee he also nforms to a gay trope that was observed by his lleague, Jerry Sefeld: “Sgle, th, and neat.
HOW MATTHEW PERRY KILLED A GAY STORY FOR HIS CHARACTER ‘FRIENDS’
Throughout the show’s n, Chandler was the nstant butt of gay jok — always assumed to be “that, ” as the show tend to say rather than g the word “gay. ” He also had a plex relatnship wh his parent, whose handlg is plited to discs: Intified on the show as a gay man who performed drag, the character was scribed by shownners terviews as a transgenr woman. But if he had been gay … would that have been better?
For one thg, spe the “wre gay, play is straight” directive, the show seems a b wobbly when to gay humor, returng over and over and over to the same joke: It would be funny if someone was gay. For another, I thk ’s bt that the first proment recurrg gay character on a US primetime s was played by a queer person.
WAS CHANDLER BG ORIGALLY GAY ON FRIENDS? EVEN LISA KUDROW THOUGHT SO
Matthew Perry might’ve been able to handle gay Chandler (or maybe not) but Ellen’s groundbreakg Puppy Episo set a strong tone for gay s characters by pictg a posive g-out. Before Ellen’s g-out, ss tend to treat gay characters as a crisis, wh “what do we do about this” Very Special Episos. Gay episos that followed on other shows seemed to take the cue, and queerns was sudnly a e for celebratn on TV stead of agatn.