Interview: Gay of Thron’ Jonathan Van Ns and Er Gibson

Contents:

• OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
• GAY OF THRON - SEASON 1
• JONATHAN VAN NS ON THE END OF HIS GAME (AND GAY) OF THRON JOURNEY
• THE GAME OF THRON CAST AS IMAGED BY ‘GAY OF THRON’
• ‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY

OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON

But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially. (The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri. The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira.

”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa. Young as “​​the most proment homosexual figure the early morn perd.

)“To the shock of many urtiers, the pair were monstratively affectnate to each other public, spe Jam’ var proclamatns agast homosexualy, ” Daniel Smh wrote “Love Letters of Kgs and Queens. Frerick the Great of Pssia (1712 - 1786)Even his lifetime, this Pssian royal was wily mored to be a homosexual, though that term wouldn’t be ed till nearly 90 years after his years after the kg’s ath, his physician Johann Ge Rter von Zimmermann published a book which he sperately tried to dispel gossip Frerick had a “Grecian taste love. And rather than let that secret out, Frerick pretend to be gay, “so that he would ntue to appear virile and pable of sexual terurse, albe wh men.

GAY OF THRON - SEASON 1

But he did ltle to obscure his sexualy: Sanssouci, his palace Potsdam, was filled wh homoerotic art and, across Europe, “l Potsdamists” beme slang for kg allegedly pursued the Veian philosopher Franc Algarotti and even famed French philosopher Voltaire, who lived wh him at Sanssouci, though ’s not certa if eher relatnship was Voltaire’s ath 1778, a mancript of his memoir tailg Frerick’s homosexual tennci tail was stolen and published the Netherlands. ”The archde spent the rt of his life secln at Klsheim Palace near Salzburg, where he died at the age of 76 1919, three years after his brother’s ath and one year after the Atro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved after the end of World War II of Buganda (1868 - 1903)Discsn of Uganda’s treatment of homosexualy ually settl on Print Yoweri Meveni’s “Kill the Gays” bill, but this 19th century kabaka, or kg, of Buganda allegedly had sexual relatnships wh men along wh his 16 1886, Mwanga II orred the btal torture and aths of dozens of urtiers and pag, wh many burned alive. “I hear there was homosexualy Mwanga’s palace, ” Meveni told a crowd of thoands on Martyr Day 2010, the Atlantic reported.

To put simply, I’m not so sure this show is a great iend of the gays.

JONATHAN VAN NS ON THE END OF HIS GAME (AND GAY) OF THRON JOURNEY

The first gay character we met the world of Game of Thron was Renly Baratheon, brother of Kg Robert Baratheon. Sce homosexualy isn’t wily accepted the society Mart has created, Loras is closeted and fds himself engaged - agast his will - to several female characters, cludg the betiful, young (though at the time, hopelsly naïve) Sansa Stark and the cel, thls Cersei Lannister (who is closeted herself, although her secret lover is actually her tw brother).

The days, Loras is prison, held by a relig cult for the crime of beg gay.

THE GAME OF THRON CAST AS IMAGED BY ‘GAY OF THRON’

While s three gay or bisexual men have all found some way to be killed or punished ways that almost seem remiscent of the 1950s, the women of Game of Thron show absolutely no tert tradnal genr rol.

Lucky for gay/bi men, there are que a number of who know exactly how that feels. It seems like every gay guy out there is a bottom, and when you thk you've met someone who's fely a He too is a bottom. Streamg, rent, or buy Gay of Thron – Season 1:We try to add new provirs nstantly but we uldn't fd an offer for "Gay of Thron - Season 1" onle.

‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY

Now, to nip the bud the “Christian Left” sophistry that flects attentn away om homosexualy to the s of “pri, ” let me stipulate that pri IS the s at the very root of LGBT perversns, fdg s most plete exprsn homosexual pulatn, as Mos noted Levic 18:22, and Pl so eloquently explas Romans 1:18-32. I’ll further stipulate that their other favore flectn tactic re the “S of Sodom, ” that the actual s was “hospaly, ” is also te: there was no act the ancient Hebrew culture so grossly hospable as the attempted homosexual gang rape of visg strangers by “all the men of Sodom both young and old” scribed Genis 19:1-11. Th, rampant homosexualy is the key symbol of ultimate rebelln triggerg God’s wrath.

And this was te the se of Noah’s Flood as well, that homosexual “marriage” triggered , as J implied Matthew 24:37-38 (taken together wh Genis 6:5) and the ancient Hebrew rabbis exprsly stated the Talmud (Genis Rabbah 26:5:4). Let this be Ameri’s warng as willgly hosts untls rabow-emblazoned “Gay Pri” paras and fli the LGBT rabow flag over every US Embassy the world.

Perhaps bee the language to scribe and fe multiple sexual orientatns don’t exist Wteros, his fay speaks only phemism, but Laenor is gay and his lover is Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod).

And while n be argued that most characters the seri experience some form of horrific vlence, queer characters’ aths are often also marked by homophobic subtext that n’t be ignored. He is arrted by a relig sect for the crime of beg gay and havg been timate wh other men. 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 queer women of “Game of Thron” fared slightly better.

)For those who hoped that Laenor’s troductn might signal that “Hoe of the Dragon” had learned the same lsons about LGBTQ reprentatn as has Daenerys’ arc, Lonmouth’s ath is particularly troublg bee of the way evok the homophobic “panic” that has long been ed to try to fend vlence agast queer people. But the sequence still amounts to a man, after beg approached by a gay man who knows his secret, beatg the gay man to the first episo, the prequel seri has been clear that the misogyny of the Realm is a mark agast . It’s past time the anchise do the same wh homophobia.

In the mystil land of Wteros, they’ve got everythg — dragons, Whe Walkers, and a whole lot of gays. Inty: GayLikelihood of Stg on the Iron Throne: Not happeng, ever sce a hly born shadow monster took his life and claim to the throne.