OP-ED: The Gays of Thron

Contents:

• BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON
• OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
• #BURYYOURGAYS: 27 LGBT TV CHARACTERS KILLED OFF 2016, FROM ‘EMPIRE’ TO ‘GAME OF THRON’ (PHOTOS)
• HOW "GAME OF THRON" ED LORAS TYRELL: HBO'S “GAY RTOON” IS SO MUCH MORE THE BOOKS
• GAME OF THRON THOR: I WON’T CLU GAY CHARACTERS NOVELS ‘FOR THE SAKE OF ’

BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON

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OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON

What plac Loras at the bottom of the list is the fact that his whole character is fed by harmful gay stereotyp, pecially nsirg he (and Renly) were the first LGBTQ+ characters Game of Thron we were troduced to.

As a stark ntrast of gay reprentatn to Loras, Renly serv to portray a very different LGBTQ+ experience for the viewers to potentially relate to on Game on Thron. 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.

#BURYYOURGAYS: 27 LGBT TV CHARACTERS KILLED OFF 2016, FROM ‘EMPIRE’ TO ‘GAME OF THRON’ (PHOTOS)

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 . This show will be screened untri where homosexualy is illegal, where women’s sexual choic are ntrolled and where trans inti are vlently subjugated. If ed those men were gay had a signifint effect upon history and has a somewhat signifint effect on the events my book … I wanted to clu the full range of humany, cludg the full range of sexual preferenc and sex is an important part of the books.

Vto Rso, the gay film cric, noted a trend some film reprentatn where the gay man is prented only to meet an unhappy, punishg and often fatal endg. But world where Bnei has jt joed the list of pariah natns that have the ath penalty for male homosexualy, a queer character’s murr might reasonably be argued to rry more ntemporary weight and ronance. Weiss do not shy away om sexual taboos like ct, and they have clud a few homosexual relatnships wh their predomantly heteronormative world.

HOW "GAME OF THRON" ED LORAS TYRELL: HBO'S “GAY RTOON” IS SO MUCH MORE THE BOOKS

However, their treatment of one of the most proment among the few relatnships ultimately falls to the trope known as “bury your gays, ” where homosexual characters are quickly killed off and removed om a seri predomantly focsed on heterosexual characters. The homosexual relatnship between Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell did not ultimately transcend the social stigma wh the world of Game of Thron as fans might have hoped, as Renly was killed only a season after their relatnship began.

After Renly’s ath, the suatn did not improve for Loras, who is exposed as homosexual to the High Sparrow, imprisoned, and tortured for his “ss. While Game of Thron certaly perpetuated the “bury your gays” trope also serv as an example of the how wrers are nscly workg to subvert the trope by givg the last openly bisexual character, Yara Greyjoy, addnal plot armor where seems she is able to slip out of ath’s jaws more than once. The “bury your gays” trope is a cliche Hollywood films and televisn alike where LGBT characters seem to be more expendible than their straight peers and typilly do not fd their “happily ever after” at the story’s ncln.

Acrdg to Kelsey Cameron, “‘bury your gays’ is the narrative arc where queer charters die, often vlently, service of someone else’s character velopment. ” However, this is not to say that gay characters should not be exempt om tragedy, but stead is about there beg a diverse ensemble of charters who are reprentative of the real world.

GAME OF THRON THOR: I WON’T CLU GAY CHARACTERS NOVELS ‘FOR THE SAKE OF ’

Bonnie Dow explas how, “homosexual characters are rarely shown their own muni, hom or same-sex romantic relatnships, but are picted terms of their place the liv of heterosexuals. In HBO’s Game of Thron the gay relatnship between Loras and Renly is not only hted at or merely implied, but bluntly unfolds the bedroom.

This led to major fan backlash, which eventually generated the hashtag #buryyourgays on social media platforms like Twter and Instagram. As a rult of disgntled LGBT fans speakg out agast the trope, a new phenomena has found s way to the televisn landspe lled “prerve your gays” where seems screen wrers have started to make a nsc effort to keep gay characters on the screen.