“Ozark” ntu a trend of killg off s gay characters for no other reason than shallow drama.
Contents:
- MEET OZARK’S SHAME-FREE (AND TOTALLY CORPT) GAY FED
- 2 MORE SUALTI TO ADD TO THE “BURY YOUR GAYS” TROPE THE GRIM SERI ‘OZARK’
MEET OZARK’S SHAME-FREE (AND TOTALLY CORPT) GAY FED
Roy Petty’s gay, and Roy Petty hat himself, but Roy Petty don’t hate himself bee he’s gay. After all, most of them meet terrible ends that are rooted anti-gay hatred: Consir Sal Mad Men, who los his job and his fay, or Vo Spatafore The Sopranos, who gets gored by that pool cue.
Homophobia even affects powerful gay antihero like Deran on Animal Kgdom. He equently stggl wh self-loathg, and the first season, he asslts his boyiend an attempt to prove he don’t like gay sex.
2 MORE SUALTI TO ADD TO THE “BURY YOUR GAYS” TROPE THE GRIM SERI ‘OZARK’
He didn’t have massively ternalized homophobia. Harner, who is openly gay himself, realized Petty was a different type of character while he was shootg a gay sex scene.
He also isn't above g people to get to his goals, like g Rs' closeted homosexualy or Rachel's substance abe issu to turn them to rmants. “Ozark” ntu a trend of killg off s gay characters for no other reason than shallow drama.
LGBTQ reprentatn is movg past the “sassy, sexls bt iend” trope to give tense, plex gay characters wh flhed out relatnships. Related: Bury Your Gays: 109 Dead Gay and Bisexual Male TV Characters, And How They Died.