The pany’s tone af mishandlg of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill has revealed a long-gtatg nflict
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- DISNEY PREZ OF ENTERTAMENT WANTS 50 PERCENT OF ALL CHARACTERS GAY OR ‘UNRREPRENTED’
- CHRIS COLFER REVEALS WHICH CHARACTER HIS NEW BOOK A TALE OF SORCERY IS OPENLY GAY — AND WHY 'S SO IMPORTANT
- 7 HBO TV SHOWS THAT FEATURE PROMENT GAY CHARACTERS
- GAY CHARACTERS
DISNEY PREZ OF ENTERTAMENT WANTS 50 PERCENT OF ALL CHARACTERS GAY OR ‘UNRREPRENTED’
The radil shift is a clear rponse om the Moe Hoe to Florida's "Jt Say Gay" law after bumblg the issue time and time aga * the i land gay characters *
In his book, Doerr clus a ma character who is nonilly gay, and tak rears through a chronicle of the character’s first klgs of love. But there is one veat: one of the gay characters di om a seemgly random e, privg rears of seeg a happy endg for him. For a straight, whe male thor, Doerr’s reprentatn and the cln of a gay character self is a pleasant surprise.
It’s a touchg sentiment any ntext, but as Doerr leads rears through the first and only love of a gay man, ’s even more poignant.
The novel also succeeds featurg two gay characters whose sexuali aren’t the pnacl of their personali.
CHRIS COLFER REVEALS WHICH CHARACTER HIS NEW BOOK A TALE OF SORCERY IS OPENLY GAY — AND WHY 'S SO IMPORTANT
* the i land gay characters *
However, after rears are troduced to this posive portrayal of gay characters, Doerr falls to the unfortunate trap that many thors are prone to: killg off one of the gay characters. One of the most mon trivializg trop media about the LGBTQ+ muny is the ever-dread “Bury Your Gays” trope. Acrdg to a post by TV Trop, “Bury Your Gays” is fed as “the prentatn of the aths of LGBTQ+ characters where the characters are nomally able to be viewed as more expendable than their heterosexual unterparts.
7 HBO TV SHOWS THAT FEATURE PROMENT GAY CHARACTERS
'Glee' alum and btsellg thor Chris Colfer giv an exclive preview of 'A Tale of Sorcery' and reveals which character is gay. * the i land gay characters *
TV Trop go on to note the veat that “sometim gay characters die fictn bee, well, sometim people die. ” In “Cloud Cuckoo Land, ” the ill-fated gay character is not the only character killed, but ’s the only character ath that felt wholly unnecsary.
In a war scenar like the one which he plac his gay characters, might seem natural that Doerr would kill off one of them, pecially sce the book spends a lot of s time explorg the subjects of life and ath.
GAY CHARACTERS
However, the issue when a gay character who fought a war, survivg agast all odds, di om a pletely unrelated health ndn a few years later. The ath of the love tert leads the gay ma character to spend the next several years feelg unfulfilled, which mak the ath’s necsy doubtful.