We knew Jofey Baratheon was a pt-sized bully, prone to beheadg good men and removg the tongu of sgers. But as we learned on Sunday's "Game of Thron," he's also a ragg homophobe, who has toyed wh the ia of makg gay sex punishable by ath.
Contents:
- ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ BEGS BURYG ITS GAYS
- ‘GAME OF THRON’: SO JOFEY HAT GAYS, ON TOP OF EVERYTHG ELSE
- 'GAME OF THRON': SO JOFEY HAT GAYS, ON TOP OF EVERYTHG ELSE
- HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER
- GAME OF THRON: A FEMIST EPISO, A GAY EPISO, OR A DULL EPISO?
‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ BEGS BURYG ITS GAYS
Inct is mon. Dragons le the ski. But gay men are unacceptable? Here's a look at the anchise's problematic history wh LGBTQ reprentatn. * was joffrey gay *
[EVERYTHING] Was Jofey gay? 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. I thk a lot of Jofey's anger om his supprsn of his natural homosexual sir.
‘GAME OF THRON’: SO JOFEY HAT GAYS, ON TOP OF EVERYTHG ELSE
Jofey says he is nsirg makg homosexualy punishable by ath.
It was all, of urse, somethg of a set-up: This week, after agreeg to marry her gay Laenor Velaryon, Prcs Rhaenyra curs Criston’s fury by refg to n away wh him; on the eve of her weddg, Criston vlently kills Laenor’s lover, Jofey Lonmouth, moments after Jofey not-so-discreetly approached Criston about how both of them uld rema lovers to the rpective almost-newlyweds. It’s the epome of the famo “bury your gays” trope, which se LGBTQ characters often wrten solely to meet some typilly vlent, tragic ath.
'GAME OF THRON': SO JOFEY HAT GAYS, ON TOP OF EVERYTHG ELSE
The aths of gay characters, pecially ostensibly ~historil~ shows like Hoe of the Dragon, tend to be mentary on the endurg stggl agast tolerance and anti-LGBTQ opprsn society. I’d jt like to see queer characters thrive for once—or, really, anythg stead of the leral gay-bashg we were all subjected to this impet for Jofey’s ath is jt as tratg as his actual ath scene. Later, when he perceived Jofey as tntg him about his sexual relatnship wh Rhaenyra, that was apparently the fal straw to btally kill a gay man, whose bleedg-out, mutilated rpse we’re then treated to.
HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER
It’s the epome of toxic masculy taken to a vlent, homophobic extreme. Whatever HotD has store down the le, I’m disappoted by the grotque vlence felt pelled to flict on one of the show’s first gay characters, all bee some straight man was particularly secure about his masculy one night.
GAME OF THRON: A FEMIST EPISO, A GAY EPISO, OR A DULL EPISO?
But as we learned on Sunday’s “Game of Thron, ” he’s also a ragg homophobe, who has toyed wh the ia of makg gay sex punishable by ath. Supreme Court nsirs whether to legalize same-sex marriage, and amid natnal mpaigns agast anti-gay bullyg.