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Contents:
- GAME OF THRON: A FEMIST EPISO, A GAY EPISO, OR A DULL EPISO?
- ‘GAME OF THRON’: SO JOFEY HAT GAYS, ON TOP OF EVERYTHG ELSE
- ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ BEGS BURYG ITS GAYS
GAME OF THRON: A FEMIST EPISO, A GAY EPISO, OR A DULL EPISO?
[EVERYTHING] Was Jofey gay?
‘GAME OF THRON’: SO JOFEY HAT GAYS, ON TOP OF EVERYTHG ELSE
I hate to troduce the possibily that he is reprentative of the typil morn day, self-loathg homosexual polician that seems to permeate today's polil arena wh illogil gay bashg polici and gay cur, but his behavr sure seems nsistent wh those morn day policians. To be clear, I mean no offense to the gay muny, so I apologize advance if I am off base here.
‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ BEGS BURYG ITS GAYS
I thk a lot of Jofey's anger om his supprsn of his natural homosexual sir. Perhaps bee the language to scribe and fe multiple sexual orientatns don’t exist Wteros, his fay speaks only phemism, but Laenor is gay and his lover is Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod).
And while n be argued that most characters the seri experience some form of horrific vlence, queer characters’ aths are often also marked by homophobic subtext that n’t be ignored.
He is arrted by a relig sect for the crime of beg gay and havg been timate wh other men. And for those who will try to pat the homophobia as some sort of “historil accuracy, ” “Hoe of the Dragon” is a fictnal show set a world wh dragons and ice queer women of “Game of Thron” fared slightly better. )For those who hoped that Laenor’s troductn might signal that “Hoe of the Dragon” had learned the same lsons about LGBTQ reprentatn as has Daenerys’ arc, Lonmouth’s ath is particularly troublg bee of the way evok the homophobic “panic” that has long been ed to try to fend vlence agast queer people.