Friends chandler gay

Matthew Perry’s Chandler Did More for Queerness Than We Offer Him Credit For

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There’s a TikTok trend, among Gen Z, roasting how millennials speak on social media: always with the “millennial pause,” as it’s called, at the beginning of videos because we grew up on analog devices that took a second to record, or with the hit after delivering jokes because we were raised on sitcoms with studio-audience howl tracks. Millennial humor is marked by self-deprecating jokes (“Can you believe I did a thing?!”) and goofy, cringy sarcasm at the mundane. There are an embarrassing number of these mocking videos, and in every millennial mark, I recognize someone: They’re all doing a variation of Chandler Bing. Matthew Perry’s character in Friends epitomized ’90s snark and self-effacing humor, an evolution of Sam from Cheers and nearly everyone from Seinfeld, but without the cool confidence or sheer shamelessness. The singsong of his quips is part of our dialect now: “Could I be any more tired?”

A few weeks ago, I started watching Friends for the second

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My life would have been completely different if Chandler Bing had been gay.

That may sound preposterous, but could it be any truer? Friends, which hit right as I entered middle school, was my first exposure to a gay relationship. Carol Willick and Susan Bunch caused quite a stir in my Southern Baptist household, causing Friends to be banned for a few months between 1994 and 1995 before my parents were assured that the lesbians weren’t in every episode (sigh). This sitcom showed me what an edited-for-mid-’90s-primetime homosexual relationship looked appreciate, but I didn’t see myself in Carol or Susan. I was a self-deprecating jokester in my teenage years. I saw myself in Chandler, sense I related to the character everyone thought was gay but actually wasn’t. I related to Chandler’s lgbtq+ panic fiercely throughout middle and elevated school, and I held up Chandler’s straightness as the reason why I wasn’t gay. Everyone on Friends was erroneous about him, so they were false about me too! So when I say my experience would have been totally different if Matthe

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This weekend Friendsfinished filminga reunion episode, slated to appear on HBO Max at some point, which has me thinking about just how close the show came to featuring what could hold been the most prominent homosexual sitcom character in history.

Showrunners came this close to making the Chandler character gay, only pulling back after they cast Matthew Perry.

But despite having straightened Chandler out, creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane gave the cast and crew explicit instructions to retain the gay vibe: “write it gay,” they told everyone, “and play it straight.”

I wonder, looking back now, if they had allowed Chandler to be gay — or bi, or any other flavor of gender non-conforming — would that have been better? Or would it acquire been a huge mess?

When Friends premiered, audiences instantly picked up on the gay undertones. I was combing through newspaper archives from the mid-90s, and a surprising amount of the coverage is devoted to slow, patient explanations that Chandler isn’t gay — really, we promise. “We’re not going to tell you again,” fumes one entertainment column.

Viewers were picking up on the vestiges of the original plan, vestige

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I have one comment about this article - specifically the part where Chandler's falling out with his father was due to the truth that he ran a male burlesque show and that it was, as the author puts it, "gay panic." I refute and think the storyteller is being a bit too acute in his lensing of the situation. I think the demonstrate is actually more enlightened than he gives it credit for because the father's sexual preference wasn't the issue, it was the fact that he left his family. And just as important, is the fact that bothof Chandler's parents were way too overtly sexual in front of Chandler from a young age. Chandler was on just as bad terms with his mother for her rampant sexuality and lack of boundaries before they smoothed things over. Is there a bit of "gay panic" in terms of some of the jokes? Yes, I will grant that, but how many hetero guys are 100% comfortable with homosexuality? (esp with having a gender non-conforming father?) It was part of his anxiety about sexuality in general.

IMO.