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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

Inty: GayLikelihood of Stg on the Iron Throne: As he was mutilated and blown to piec Kg's Landg, the most persecuted character’s only chance of makg back to the Iron Throne is as a ghost. Sexualy: GayLikelihood of Stg on the Iron Throne: While Ltlefger’s sex worker and spy might have had some noteworthy nnectns to Loras Tyrell and the Martells, ’s unclear if Oliver is ad, alive, or somethg between.

Of urse, one thg to keep md is that our morn lexin of sexualy wouldn't have been translated to the world of Game of Thron, so intifitn via labels like "gay" and "lbian" wasn't available to the characters. 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. 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.

OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON

)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.

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

Weiss do not shy away om sexual taboos like ct, and they have clud a few homosexual relatnships wh their predomantly heteronormative world. 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.

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

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. 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. While the show nners have never explicly mented on the #buryyourgays fan rponse, seems as though Yara’s character has benefted om good fortune more than a time or two sce the hashtag went viral 2016.

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

Game of Thron is not entirely reprehensible s treatment of homosexual characters, but do perpetuate some harmful narrative trop wh ltle the way of reurse. For a fantasy seri so liberal s pictn of sexualy, we might have expected better reprentatn; however, is rehg to see a bisexual character who is not pletely handcuffed by a worn out, homophobic trope.

LBGTQ+ Game of Thron characters like Loras Tyrell (played by Fn Jon) and Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pasl) have died vlently on the show, leavg some queer fans to wonr whether the seri reli on some homophobic trop.

Throughout s eight seasons, the show has had six notable LGBTQ+ Baratheon (Geth Anthony), who was seen by some characters to be unworthy of the Iron Throne bee of his secret relatnship wh…Loras Tyrell, who was a victim to one of the show’s most trmatic scen for LGBTQ+ viewers as he had to renounce his sexualy to the Fah of the Martell, the eewheelg pansexual who fell victim to the cshg power of The Mounta’s (Hafþór Júlí Björnsson) handsEllaria Sand (Indira Varma), Oberyn’s lover wh an equally vorac appete, who was ptured and imprisoned by Cersei Lannister (Lena Heay) (Will Tudor), the gay sex worker who worked as part of Ltlefger’s (Aidan Gillen) Greyjoy (Gemma Whelan), who at one pot proposed marriage to Daenerys Targaryen (Eia Clarke) Lannister (Lena Heay) and Daenerys have also had queer moments on the seri, though their sexuali are assumed to be mostly GAME OF THRONES CHANGED TV FOREVERGame of Thron has had a handful of LGBTQ characters (Image: HBO)Only one of the LGBTQ+ characters remas on the show (Yara) and four have had vlent aths on the seri – Olyvar’s whereabouts are unknown after the brothel closed s fact that two-thirds of Game of Thron’ queer characters have met bloody aths has led some fans to acce of fallg to the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope, a TV cliche whereby LGBTQ+ characters are seen as more disposable and, therefore, tend to meet vlent, a bloody ath has probably befallen two-thirds of all Game of Thron characters but, as Vulture wrote a feature about Game of Thron’ LGBTQ+ characters: “There are so few gay characters of note on popular TV dramas, ’s hard whenever we lose one of them. ”This is pound by the fact that of the hundreds of actors who have appeared as characters the show, only one of them has been an out LGBTQ+ was Kristian Nairn, who played Hodor on the seri before he too met his own grisly THE EFFECTS OF GAME OF THRONES ARE MADEKristian Nairn is the only out gay Game of Thron st member (Image: HBO)In an terview wh Nairn, GoT fan se Wter is Comg asked him whether he knew that his character had a fanbase the “bear” actor replied: “Well, all honty, when you talk about 'the gay muny, ' you are talkg about MY muny.