'The Vampire Diari' to Get First Gay Character

Contents:

• ‘THE VAMPIRE DIARI’ STS FIRST GAY CHARACTER AND NEW LOVE TERT
• THE VAMPIRE DIARI SLAMMED FOR KILLG OFF LBIAN CHARACTERS AMID #BURYYOURGAYS BACKLASH AGAST US TV SHOWS
• THE VAMPIRE DIARI TO GET FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• 'BURY YOUR GAYS': WHY ARE SO MANY LBIAN TV CHARACTERS DYG OFF?
• THE FLASH, VAMPIRE DIARI ALUM RICK COST PUBLICLY OUT AS GAY CHEERFUL VIO

‘THE VAMPIRE DIARI’ STS FIRST GAY CHARACTER AND NEW LOVE TERT

Characters and relatnships om The Vampire Diari, The Origals and Legaci, which are eher lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, pansexual, asexual, etc. So far there have been ne gay characters (Bill Forb, Joshua Rosza, Frank, Lus Parker, Ain, Eddie, The Necromancer, Osr, and Ben), four lbian characters (Nora Hilgard, Mary Louise, Maya and Fch), six bisexual characters (Freya Mikaelson, Keel[1], Tristan Martel[2][3], Penelope Park, Ja, and Jed Tien[4]) and one pansexual character (Josie Saltzman[5]).

GAY. The Vampire Diari has jt st two new characters, one of whom is gay, and another who’s a love tert for a certa vamp. Delena, Stelena, Klarole and Forwood shippers n take easy this time around, though, sce Le will be the first gay character we’ve seen Mystic Falls.

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THE VAMPIRE DIARI SLAMMED FOR KILLG OFF LBIAN CHARACTERS AMID #BURYYOURGAYS BACKLASH AGAST US TV SHOWS

"I gus no1 warned The Vampire Diari that Bury Your Gays is not acceptable anymore, " thunred one viewer. " Another add: "In TVD/TO there are FIVE known gay characters. #BURYYOURGAYS.

The Bury Your Gays movement me about as LGBT characters mastream shows were not allowed to live happy liv like their straight unterparts. Last year Vampire Diari sp-off The Origals killed off gay werewolf Ain for seemgly no reason, lettg his boyiend Josh fd him jt hours after they'd cid to n away together. The Vampire Diari also had a gay wch lled Le, who was also killed off.

THE VAMPIRE DIARI TO GET FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Lus Parker is a gay character om The Vampire Diari. Sexy supernatural seri will soon have a new character named Le who is scribed as handsome, sarstic, and gay. Except he's so not to her that way as Le, handsome and sarstic, is gay.

"Though Le will be the first reccurrg gay character on The Vampire Diari, he is not the first the show's universe. The Vampire Diari sp-off seri, The Origals, currently featur snarky gay vampire Josh, played by Steven Keger, among s ma st of characters.

'BURY YOUR GAYS': WHY ARE SO MANY LBIAN TV CHARACTERS DYG OFF?

In addn to The Vampire Diari and The Origals, MTV's Teen Wolf has clud gay characters among s supportg st sce the show's earlit episos and ramped up LGBT cln over the seri' three seasons. When I was dog my rearch for a The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate review, I me across an article that examed the unrlyg gay ton of the film Interview Wh The Vampire.

I was always aware of the homosexual subtext of the movie ever sce I first watched as a teenager, but as I grew olr, I noticed more and more that were a lot of stori that foced on vampir wh unrlyg LGBT them. LGBT them first popped up horror lerature durg the 1790s and 1800s, when gay gothic thors – the lik of Matthew Lewis, William Thomas Beckford and Francis Lathom – wrote the stori as a sublimal exprsn. In a Huffpost terview, Jam Jenks, -owner of Valanurt Books, an pennt prs that specialis the redisvery of fictn that has prevly gone unr the radar, mented that “the tradnal explanatn for the gay/horror nnectn is that was impossible for them to wre openly about gay them back then (or even perhaps exprs them, sce words like ‘gay’ and ‘homosexual’ didn’t exist), so they sublimated them and exprsed them more acceptable forms, g the medium of a transgrsive genre like horror fictn.

THE FLASH, VAMPIRE DIARI ALUM RICK COST PUBLICLY OUT AS GAY CHEERFUL VIO

However, the first tly gay vampire book to be released was Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella Carla.