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

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

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.

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

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.