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. 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.
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 *
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. TV Trop go on to note the veat that “sometim gay characters die fictn bee, well, sometim people die.
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 *
” 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.
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. As TV Trop noted, the “Bury Your Gays” trope, the aths of gay characters often don’t necsarily serve the story, so any addn to the list of works that fall to the trope is ultimately trimental to the portrayal of LGBTQ+ people media.
GAY CHARACTERS
It’s jt a shame that a gay character was killed orr to achieve that end.