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Contents:
- HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
- HOE OF THE DRAGON TRODUC GAY CHARACTER AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC: ‘THE GAY ANGST IS PALPABLE’
- IS LAENOR GAY HOE OF THE DRAGON?
HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
Hoe of the Dragon has troduced gay character Laenor Velaryon the most epic way possible episo three. * gay prince house of the dragon *
Warng: Spoilers for Hoe of the Dragon ’s Hoe of the Dragon may be a show full of giant dragons and spooky propheci, but s cisn to spare not one, but two gay characters seemgly sted for ath somehow feels even more a massive change om Gee R. I know ’s Game of Thron, but to have our heroe workg to kill the gay hband she says she lov her own way jt for some ct-y schemg?
Rhaenyra relented, but was unfulfilled as Laenor was almost certaly gay. Hoe of the Dragon has troduced gay character Laenor Velaryon the most epic way possible. “We have a Black gay man on a dragon!
HOE OF THE DRAGON TRODUC GAY CHARACTER AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC: ‘THE GAY ANGST IS PALPABLE’
Hoe of the Dragon episo 5 feeds to the extremely tired and outdated Bury Your Gays trope wh a btal character ath. * gay prince house of the dragon *
“A strong gay character ridg a dragon! We got our first bad ass gay dragon rir tonight! Laenor was lerally: be gay do crim while enjoy burng people wh Seasmoke… I LOVE HIM WKKSKSKW #Hoeofthedragon— karenofhoetargaryen (@karentargaryen) September 5, 2022.
absolute highlight was seeg my favoure lil gay dragon rir? gay rights?
The gays tonight said DRACARYS! The gay angst.
IS LAENOR GAY HOE OF THE DRAGON?
The gays won this episo + Laenor.? The gays of thron, if you of Thron, as 's more wily known, has always had a long history of killg pretty much everyone, y, but when me to LGBTQ+ characters, there was always a homophobic subtext that beme impossible to ignore. Well, y, but there rema specific exampl, even 2022, where the mistreatment and celty that queer people suffer grossly outweighs what happens to their straight of like real life, Hoe of the Dragon, a show where gays n fy all odds and live happily love together, but only for a scene or two, bee straight teasg (queerbag?
This is a fictnal world where homophobia don't have to be a, that don't stop Laenor om tongug his lover Ser Jofey Lonmouth every chance he gets... NetflixJofey, overe wh the gay need to gossip, tells Criston that he's well aware of the knight's relatnship wh Rhaenyra. Kill the gays, by all means, but when the gay qutn is one of the first and only queer people on the entire show, murrg them such a cel, sadistic way rerc harmful, dated trop.
Why should we feel anythg but rentment for a character whose securi led to such a specifilly homophobic form of vlence? A gay man, if you, and this isn't the first time that the Game of Thron anchise has pulled a stunt like this eher. HBOAnd y, that last sentence refers to yet another disproportnately cel ath for the gays, se you were 'd thk that Hoe of the Dragon would have learned more om the mistak that Game of Thron once ma, yet here we are still havg the same old nversatn aga 2022.