Bury Your Gays: Why ‘The 100,’ ‘Walkg Dead’ Deaths Are Problematic (Gut Column) – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• 'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
• THE WALKG DEAD SKIPS SEASON 3 GAY STORYLE – KEEPS IMPERFECT ZERO LGBT CHARACTER RATG
• BURY YOUR GAYS: WHY ‘THE 100,’ ‘WALKG DEAD’ DEATHS ARE PROBLEMATIC (GUT COLUMN)

'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY

The Walkg Dead on social media is also a proud supporter, nouncg homophobic people. He is a role mol, spiratn, and a mentor to other characters and a perfect example that prov to all the anti-LGBTQIA+ people that beg gay don’t mean you are a bad says:I would say whout doubt ’s Strand Fear.

Payne said last year that he saw no reason why his on-screen J wouldn't be gay, as he is the ics, and tonight's episo "The Other Si, " he officially beme the show's third major gay character. Her girliend Denise (Merrt Wever) was ntroversially killed off what beme part of a troublg TV trend last year; an unwele rurgence of the "Bury Your Gays" trope which me to a head wh a profoundly ntroversial storyle on The CW's The 100.

THE WALKG DEAD SKIPS SEASON 3 GAY STORYLE – KEEPS IMPERFECT ZERO LGBT CHARACTER RATG

But the fact that this is now a show wh three gay characters s ma st matters. Given his stat as a badass fan favore, his signifint role the ics and the bonds he's veloped wh several of the show's ma characters, the now-openly-gay J has the potential to bee genuely inic a way Aaron and Tara are not. Gay characters on televisn are no longer unmon, but gay male hero on actn-led genre shows are, and the fact that The Walkg Dead has an unually bipartisan fan base wh a strong Republin ntgent mak s sexual diversy all the more charged.

"In my opn there should be more awome gay people fictn bee there are plenty of awome gay people real life, " Robert Kirkman, who created The Walkg Dead ics and is an EP on the show, said last year.

That basilly jt leav Aaron, Magna and Yumiko as the only gay characters still standg.

BURY YOUR GAYS: WHY ‘THE 100,’ ‘WALKG DEAD’ DEATHS ARE PROBLEMATIC (GUT COLUMN)

And nobody wants to see another example of the troublg “bury your gays” trope.

At least Kang’s words suggt there’ll likely be more gay characters g to The Walkg Dead time, though whether fans will take to them as much as J and Tara, we’ll have to see when season 10 airs this fall. As Yumiko announc to Michonne, Siddiq, Eugene, and Juana Sanchez, that they are gay. In the Season 5 episo “Fet, ” Aaron says that he and his boyiend Eric have enuntered homophobia both before and after the apolypse, and that they’re still treated as outsirs Alexandria bee they’re gay.