The seri fale of “Killg Eve” fell victim to the “Bury Your Gays” trope. Viewers served – and serve – better.
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GAYNGST
The Gayngst trope as ed popular culture. Dpe the olr meang of the word "gay," gay characters fictn tend to be a miserable lot, and not by … * gay tragedy trope *
GLAAD revealed at a panel Augt that 62 gay and bisexual televisn characters were killed off on televisn the past two years, cludg on Orange Is the New Black, Hoe of Cards, Pretty Ltle Liars, The Walkg Dead, and Empire. From Aled Hchck's oedipal Bno Strangers on a Tra to his Leopold and Loeb stand-s Rope to the serial killer offg gay men the servedly much-maligned Cisg to the recent French film Stranger by the Lake, the praved homosexual has been a mastay of the big screen.
Exampl of the evil and nnivg, while not necsarily murro, gay n be found Downton Abbey's footman Thomas, Orange Is the New Black's Pistella, Sndal's Cys, and Bat Motel's eratn of Norman.