Contents:
- 'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
- HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
Warng: this story ntas spoilers for episo five of Hoe of the one week after Hoe of the Dragon fans celebrated Wteros' first black — and gay — dragon rir, they are now llg the show out and accg of homophobic the most recent episo of the HBO seri, viewers were troduced officially to Laenor Velaryon's (Theo Nate) male partner, Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod) and wnsed the ep love the pair had for each by the end of the episo, Jofey would be ad one of the show's most gome murr scen yet. Fans have acced the show of an anti-gay plotle. Criston, who also serv as Rhaenyra's protector, seeth at the prospect of her marryg someone else and tri to enurage her to n away wh him, but be enraged when she do not, at the welg dner for Rhaenyra and Laenor's weddg ftival, Jofey works out that Criston is the prcs' approach him wh a proposal, sayg they uld work together to protect their loved on durg their marriage and that way ensure they would always be near a clearly upset Criston lash out at Laenor and vicly attacks him the middle of the receptn beatg his face to a bloody was this scene that lead to outrage amongst the show's viewg public who acced Hoe of the Dragon of relyg on a trope known as 'Bury Your Gays.
"Anyway, Hoe of The Dragon is homophobic and I'd give a MAJOR trigger warng for homophobia-duced MURDER for the latt episo, " wrote one fan on Twter. Another add: "Wow, so Hoe of the Dragon really went for the one-two homophobia/misogyny punch this week. "And a third mented: "[tw: homophobia] that has to be a rerd for troducg the gayns of a character the same episo you have him btally murred thanks hoe of the dragon!!
HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
Hoe of the Dragon and s precsor Game of Thron (GOT) are no strangers to ntroversy when to their treatment of LGBTQ+, people of lor and poor they face torture, ct, rape and vlence at unparalleled levels pared to other of GOT's openly gay characters were not only killed but faced gome aths the procs, such as Renly Baratheon (Geth Anthony) and Pedro Pasl's perennially beloved, Oberyn Martell. And for those who will try to pat the homophobia as some sort of 'historil accuracy, ' Hoe of the Dragon is a fictnal show set a world wh dragons and ice zombi, " said Los Angel Tim TV reporter Tracy Brown.
Criston's murro rage was also ma worse by the fact he reacted impulsively, remiscent of an act of "gay panic. "The "gay panic" fense was often ed to jtify acts of vlence agast LGBT people, pecially after perceived sexual advanc. "But the sequence still amounts to a man, after beg approached by a gay man who knows his secret, beatg the gay man to ath.