'Hoe of the Dragon' Fally Did Right By Some of Its Gay Characters | Them

Contents:

• HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
• GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’
• WOKE OUTRAGE: LEFTISTS TRIGGERED BY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ KILLG OFF GAY CHARACTER
• IS "HOE OF THE DRAGON" BURYG ITS GAYS?
• 'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
• HOE OF THE DRAGON TRODUC GAY CHARACTER AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC: ‘THE GAY ANGST IS PALPABLE’
• HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER

HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS

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? 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...

GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’

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.

WOKE OUTRAGE: LEFTISTS TRIGGERED BY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ KILLG OFF GAY CHARACTER

That's not to say all hope is lost, Laenor surviv the outdated trop long enough to bee a fully realised character, there remas some spe to move past all this and embrace queerns beyond flash of peen the brothel or this tired 'Bury Your Gays' trope.

And we all know how that 's no “gay” Game of Thron, bee this is a world of strict, heteronormative tradnalism. Thron' treatment of gays has been a long-standg pot of Vulture's Brian Moylan wrote of the Game of Thron season six fale back 2016, “gay characters on Game of Thron have met pecially bloody and ignom aths”. The manner of their aths is appropriate for the anchise's unrelentgly bleak tone, but 's troublg that gay characters are still relegated to vic monstrative of 's queerns prumably isn't gog anywhere, so his characterisatn has plenty of room to breathe.

IS "HOE OF THE DRAGON" BURYG ITS GAYS?

“[Rso] noted a trend some film reprentatn where the gay man is prented only to meet an unhappy, punishg and often fatal endg, ” he wr, also evokg US amic John Clum's analysis of the trend on stage as “rualistic purgatn”. It's not jt the gays that get the short end of the world of Game of Thron, but 's unsettlg that, even 2022, a roomful of wrers might still flt to the same of the Dragon is streamg on Sky and Now.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web my gay ass shippg Rhaenyra and Alicent knowg damn well won't happen ? Friends, is gay to ll your btie to ri a dragon wh you? The gayt aspect of the first episo was by far the dynamic set up between Rhaenyra and her stepmother Lady Alicent, played by Ey Carey. “Me watchg Alicent and Rhaenyra teractg when I know the story, Gay is , Gay is hot.

'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE

I want some gay. Gay ’s gog to be, ” another viewer wrote. “Rhaenyra and Alicent are so gay, like baby Rhaenyra only wants to go fly on her dragon and eat ke wh her girliend; if that a’t the gayt thong ever…” someone else add.

Not my gay ass shippg Rhaenyra and Alicent knowg damn well won't happen ? Friends, is gay to ll your btie to ri a dragon wh you? 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.

HOE OF THE DRAGON TRODUC GAY CHARACTER AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC: ‘THE GAY ANGST IS PALPABLE’

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.

But the sequence still amounts to a man, after beg approached by a gay man who knows his secret, beatg the gay man to the first episo, the prequel seri has been clear that the misogyny of the Realm is a mark agast .

HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER

It’s past time the anchise do the same wh homophobia. Laenor, to Rhaenyra, was nonilly gay the source material book Fire & Blood. Woke LGBTQIA2S+ activists are triggered over Hoe of the Dragon, the long-awaed Game of Thron prequel seri, killg off a gay character episo five of s first season.

Kg was referrg to a scene Hoe of the Dragon, which Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) graphilly murrs Ser Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod), who is a homosexual relatnship wh Laenor Valaryon (Theo Nate). “It’s not the first time that queer characters have been troduced simply to face their ghoulish, bloody mise, ” Kg lamented, sistg that “treatment of gays” the Game of Thron universe “has been a long-standg pot of bate.

The Brish GQ wrer also poted to a 2016 piece, tled, “Game of Thron Has a Gay Problem, ” by Vulture’s Brian Moylan, who plaed that gay characters the origal seri “met pecially bloody and ignom aths” — omtg the fact that a total of 6, 887 characters died throughout the urse of the seri. “It’s not jt the gays that get the short end of the world of Game of Thron, but ’s unsettlg that, even 2022, a roomful of wrers might still flt to the same trope, ” the wrer plaed. Criston Cole’s motive for killg Jofey Lonmouth, however, did not appear to be bee the character was gay, as the murr happened shortly after Lonmouth revealed that he knew Cole’s secret: that he had slept wh Prcs Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alck).