The weirdly queerphobic show would have had a story about Chandler Bg sneakg to a gay bar.
Contents:
- HOW MATTHEW PERRY KILLED A GAY STORY FOR HIS CHARACTER ‘FRIENDS’
- VIVA LAS GAYGAS: DRAG, DIVAS AND UNEXPECTED LIGHTS
- VIVA LAS GAYGAS BABY!
- VIVA LAS GAYGAS
- VIVA LAS GAYGAS TICKETS
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.
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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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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.
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.