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MEET THE QUEER ACTOR BRGG GAY ROMANCE TO NETFLIX’S H FANTASY SERI ‘SHADOW AND BONE’
Fantasy has long been a genre adored by queer dienc bee often transports to worlds where magic puts the power our hands, and homophobia?
“As a young, queer person, who was aware of their inty, what would have meant to me to have seen a gay character that I liked, and then found out the actor was gay too and had managed to get to that place…. As a gay child who felt alone, as so many of did at the time, to have had more of those exampl would have been wonrful, you know? Rowlg face cricism after she seemgly retrofted homosexualy onto Dumbledore, a character already beloved by so many Harry Potter fans.
On the other hand, veer too far the other way and you’ve land firmly the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope, wh many films and TV shows cricised for creatg queer characters who seem to exist only to exprs their sexualy, often through stereotypil flamboyancy or promiscuy, only to eventually meet some tragic, grim end ually lked directly to their sexualy. Played by an English genue by the name of Jack Wolfe, Wylan plays a ccial role the plot of the show’s sophomore season as a love tert to fan favoure Jper (K Young). “All I n say is that, as a young, queer person, who was aware of their inty, what would have meant to me to have seen a gay character that I liked, and then found out the actor was gay too and had managed to get to that place….