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HOW MATTHEW PERRY KILLED A GAY STORY FOR HIS CHARACTER ‘FRIENDS’

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Turner played Chandler’s parent Charl Bg, who performed as Helena Handbasket for her drag stage show Viva Las Gaygas. ’ I said y, bee there weren’t many drag/trans people on televisn at the time, ” Turner told the Gay Tim. In a new book chroniclg the massively popular NBC s Friends, a wrer om the seri says that actor Matthew Perry (who played the joke-crackg character Chandler Bg) nixed a storyle that had him sneakg to gay bars bee he loved their tuna melt sandwich.

Bg’s blogil father — who works as drag and burlque performer Helena Handbasket a revue lled “Viva Las Gaygas” — also beme a repeated punchle, subject to misgenrg and transphobia spe her beg a fabulo and self-assured dividual. It’s unclear if Handbasket was supposed to be gay or trans, but the fact that the character was played early on the seri by a cis male and was later on portrayed by actrs Kathleen Turner suggts the latter. “Chandler and Joey were repeatedly mistaken for a gay uple, male characters were mocked for perceived ‘feme’ behavr, Ross is unable to handle the ia of havg a male nanny, and Chandler was equently portrayed as beg paranoid about beg thought of as gay.

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Ever sce Friends land on Netflix, viewers have been fdg s storyl more and more problematic. From the fat-shamg of young Moni to the jok about gay people, the inic... * viva las gaygas *

In 2011, vio artist Tijana Mamula put together a 50-mute vio entled “Homophobic Friends” which showed the seri’ ongog e of queerphobic humor durg s 10-year n. In fact, wh the benef of hdsight, ’s easy to see how the show bolstered homophobia and transmisogyny our culture for years to, when Friends unr fire for s msy history wh queerns, fans and advot pot to the way the show was received upon s arrival the mid-90s. Commentg on the show’s one-night revival 2016 for the Chigo Tribune, Bethonie Butler oped that “[w]rg Friends off as homophobic ignor the cln of Ross' ex-wife, Carol, and her partner, San, ” two supportg characters who helped propel the show to two GLAAD Media Award nomatns and one w for Outstandg Comedy ’s certaly te that any semi-rpectful portrayal of lbian love 1990s televisn was rare at bt, but that don’t mean San and Carol’s plotle was good.

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Ross unsuccsfully bids to attach his last name to theirs when namg their child “The One Wh the Sonogram At the End, ” and reflects glumly that he should have known Carol was gay bee she drank beer “straight om the n” the seri pilot (“The One Where Moni Gets a Roommate”); even when Ross and San bond “The One Wh the Lbian Weddg, ” ’s wh a dig at Ross’s masculy, as San asks him to dance wh the tongue--cheek offer “I’ll let you lead.

Throughout the seri, Chandler exprs mortifitn at havg a “gay dad, ” as Charl’ g-out not only end Chandler’s parents marriage, but led to embarrassment om his schoolyard peers — embarrassment that ntu to adulthood, as the Friends st routely roasts Chandler on this topic. Club lled “one of the bt half-hours the s format ever produced”), the fact that Chandler’s father performs a Las Vegas burlque revue lled “Viva Las Gaygas” is played for lghs when the gang nstcts a “quiz show” about how well they know one another.

I put sre quot around “gay dad” and “he” the precedg paragraph bee Charl Bg’s genr inty is mangled throughout the seri by a team of wrers wh only the shallowt unrstandg of how trans and drag culture overlap.

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Though Charl is referred to as a gay male drag queen and burlque performer, the character’s few on-screen appearanc Friends’ seventh season seem to dite she is actually a transgenr woman, given that she apparently prents as female 24/7 and is implied to have done so for years.

(There’s more textual evince, too: when Chandler and Moni travel to see “Viva Las Gaygas” “The One Wh Chandler’s Dad, ” they’re waed on by a visibly trans wars played by Alexis Arquette — who don’t appear fond of Moni’s cuty bumblg over her pronouns. In a Gay Tim terview this Febary, Turner said “I don’t thk aged well, ” rellg of Chandler’s father that “everyone thought he was jt drsg up.

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”Friends is not a toxic show bee of s overt homophobia or transmisogyny.

That’s not a good thg for a show that peppers random episos wh queerphobic subplots and throwaway you n enjoy Friends 2018, more power to you, but be hont wh yourself about what you’re watchg: a bunch of whe people stg around and makg fun of whoever “acts gay” between hookg up. Around the same time, Temptatn Sundays–the cy’s longt-nng gay pool party–kicks off at Luxor, nng on Sundays through until September. Viva Las Gaygas.

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