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BURY YOUR GAYS: WHY ‘THE 100,’ ‘WALKG DEAD’ DEATHS ARE PROBLEMATIC (GUT COLUMN)
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. 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. This wave of queer female aths follows a long-standg pop culture trope known as Bury Your Gays.
The history of the Bury Your Gays issue, and more specifilly Dead Lbian Syndrome, is a long one. And perhaps most imprsively, they have funneled their tratn and fury to raisg money to support gay youth. Comg on the heels of the ath of Tom Payne’s J, another openly gay character, some have acced the show of buryg s gays, which I thk is a fair asssment spe troducg two new queer characters and the ntued survival of Aaron (Ross Marquand).
But when there are so few gay characters genre televisn across the board, pecially horror, the aths stg bee they’re privg dienc of important reprentatn. Tara was a classic example of buryg one’s gays, bee her ath was really jt to make the straight characters sad and her partner take a dark turn. There have to be better ways of showg angst and motivatg characters than jt idgg same-sex love terts or gay characters when they are few and far between, or immediately after two female characters nsummate their relatnship.