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Contents:
- JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
- THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF “FRIENDS”
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- THAT GAY EPISO
JOEY OM “FRIENDS” WAS GAY & CLOSETED JOKE CUT OM SEASON 4 FALE
Phoebe apparently thought that Joey was actually gay an early draft of this episo. * friends gay episode *
A joke about Joey Tribbiani beg gay was cut om an episo of Friends, an early versn of the script revealed. Reported that a draft script for the season four fale, “The One Wh Ross’s Weddg, ” had a joke where Phoebe said that Joey is gay.
THE SECRET GAY HISTORY OF “FRIENDS”
* friends gay episode *
Related: Was Chandler om “Friends” meant to be gay? But the draft script, she adds another joke: “Or ‘Hey, Joey, you’re gay. Friends has faced cricism recent years due to the show’s negative portrayal of LGBTQ people, cludg the humanizg way Chandler’s transgenr parent was treated, the immature lbian jok Ross’s ex-wife Carol was the butt of, and the nstant fear male characters the show lived of beg thought of as gay, g them to fear and lgh at boys and men who dance, take re of children, or play wh dolls (gay, gay, and so gay that ’s OK to be mean to your own child over).
What’s unual about Phoebe’s cut joke is that was ually Ross and Chandler who were spected of beg gay, not womanizg Joey. And perhaps that’s why the joke didn’t make the fal ed: ’s possible that Joey’s entire character was a refully nstcted fa for a closeted gay man, but that’s a long, arduo path for a s to go down jt for a rather un-funny zger that isn’t even need bee immediately followed one that ma the same pot.
Gay Republin group touts support for anti-trans legislatn & mocks out sger T. In 2016, Cha issued new guil sayg televisn shows shouldn’t clu story l volvg gay relatnships, as well as other topics that “exaggerate the dark si of society.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * friends gay episode *
” The eight-page document referenced “vulgar, immoral and unhealthy ntent” and emed homosexualy, extramaral affairs, one-night stands and unrage love as beg off-lims. When the film “Bohemian Rhapsody, ” a bpic of Brish rock band Queen, released Cha 2019, more than two mut of LGBTQ ntent were removed om the film, cludg scen of two men kissg and the word “gay. Was Friends homophobic and way too whe?
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
It has bee a way for to look at (and argue about) enormo societal issu — racism, misogyny, homophobia — through the lens of a s. Is Friends homophobic?
THAT GAY EPISO
It’s riddled wh lazy gay jok, which was standard for ss of s era. But the homophobia on Friends is also more plex than that.
This tensn is perfectly exemplified season two’s “The One Wh the Lbian Weddg, ” an episo that’s equal parts envelope-phg and full of gay panic.
Their not-yet-legal unn is officiated by Candace Ggrich, the LGBTQ rights activist and siblg of Newt Ggrich (who when the episo aired 1996 was one of the most visible anti-gay policians power). On the gay-panic si, everythg else about the weddg is refully curated to be as ut and heteronormative as possible: The bris are walked down the aisle by men, wearg long, pastel gowns — a cisn ma by stume signer Debra McGuire, who later explaed: “I really loved the ia of the women beg women, of them lookg betiful and feme, bee of the stereotyp about gay women.