Is Supergirl Gay the TV Show or Is Queerbag to Blame?

Contents:

• SUPERGIRL’S SISTER COM OUT AS GAY, SHOWNNER EXPLAS THIS ‘WAS ALWAYS OUR PATH’
• ‘SUPERGIRL’ BOSS ON “THOUGHTFUL” COMG OUT STORY AND “BURY YOUR GAYS” FEARS
• FANS THK SUPERGIRL IS GAY AS SEASON 6 CH CLOSE TO FALE EPISO
• SUPERGIRL’S SERI FALE COULD HAVE BEEN GAYER
• IS ‘SUPERGIRL’ CHARACTER ALEX DANVERS COMG OUT AS GAY IN SEASON 2?
• IS SUPERGIRL GAY THE TV SHOW OR IS IT ANOTHER CASE OF QUEERBAG?

SUPERGIRL’S SISTER COM OUT AS GAY, SHOWNNER EXPLAS THIS ‘WAS ALWAYS OUR PATH’

In Season 2 of Supergirl on The CW, Alex Danvers out as gay after meetg the lbian police officer Maggie Sawyer (Floriana Lima). As turned out, the revelatn had to do wh Kara’s (Melissa Benoist) adoptive sister, Alex (Chyler Leigh), who me out as gay to her new iend (and current csh) Maggie, played by Floriana Lima.

Durg a prentatn at this summer’s TV Crics Associatn prs tour, “Supergirl” exec producer Greg Berlan teased that one of the characters The CW’s quartet of DC Comics seri (“Supergirl”, “Arrow”, “The Flash” and “Legends of Tomorrow”) would be revealed as gay, but fans were clearly not thkg would be Alex. But the biggt ‘downer’ for me this season is the very aggrsive ph the wrers have taken when to homosexualy.

‘SUPERGIRL’ BOSS ON “THOUGHTFUL” COMG OUT STORY AND “BURY YOUR GAYS” FEARS

One of the ma characters, Alex Danvers – the ‘sister’ of Supergirl – found out she was gay when she fell love wh a lbian female p Natnal Cy. So the Danvers character me out of the closet, tellg her iends she was gay, and then eventually moved wh the female p.

And of urse the wrers ma sure to clu lots of gay drama along the way as this whole scenar played out over several episos. At this pot I’ve had all I n take of the hollywood wrers forcg homosexualy and liberal polics to Supergirl.

Of urse I do know that the ma wrer, Greg Berlanti, is gay. Kara was romantilly lked to Mon-El at the time, but Zari said she felt the scene "was jt gay. '"Some 'Superrp' fans said they felt the wrers queerbaed them many scen Queerbag, as fed by Lexi, is "the rporatn of apparently gay characters or same-sex relatnships" to visual media, typilly movi or TV shows, "as a means of appealg to gay and bisexual dienc while matag ambiguy about the characters' sexualy.

FANS THK SUPERGIRL IS GAY AS SEASON 6 CH CLOSE TO FALE EPISO

Lexa's ath sparked an outcry among fans and wispread discsns about the harmfulns of the "Bury Your Gays" trope, which LGBTQ characters are disproportnately killed vastatg or trmatic ways. "It is a shame that after all the years they really end Superrp's story wh 'iends, ' the same word that has been ed on the show, that has been ed by homophobic fans and actors sce the begng to avoid discsg the love of two women, " she wrote an email to Insir after the fale aired. Lisa/@gayandmedcre.

SUPERGIRL’S SERI FALE COULD HAVE BEEN GAYER

"Maybe the wrers thk actg super gay is nceled out by g words like that, " Zari said her email about the way the scene was shot ma Zari believe Lena and Kara were gog to kiss, so she was disappoted that the two hugged stead. And the fandom's disappotment, as a whole, was loud on social phras "SUPERGIRL IS GAY" and "SUPERCORP KISSED" trend on Twter after the seri fale aired, wh the latter referrg to an alleged set photo beg circulated on social media that appeared to show an alternate versn of Lena and Kara's nversatn, which the two kissed. " The storyle had some negative nsequenc for Chyler too, who said she lost the support for some of her iends by playg a gay character.

Maggie was taken aback, and she told Alex she didn’t realize that Alex was gay. After nyg and leavg abptly, Alex did some soul searchg, and by the end of the episo, she me out as gay to Maggie.

IS ‘SUPERGIRL’ CHARACTER ALEX DANVERS COMG OUT AS GAY IN SEASON 2?

The cisn to add a lbian character to Supergirl not long after several TV shows were cricized for killg off proment lbian characters — a ntroversial trend that beme known as the “Bury Your Gays” trope.

While Kreisberg adms he didn’t know about the term “Bury Your Gays, ” he promis that producers ma sure to “try to be as tthful and real as possible” when to wrg Alex’s g out story. Alex, an outrageoly smart, effective special agent, and adopted sister to Supergirl, realiz she's gay when she meets police tective Maggie Sawyer (who, the ic book world, is actually Batwoman's partner). — ned rey moreno ? (@Hajabeg) January 4, 2017A man terpts her viewg to tell her she's beg "nsirate and disrpectful" of the children on board and that she shouldn't expose them to the "gay abomatn" on her screen.

IS SUPERGIRL GAY THE TV SHOW OR IS IT ANOTHER CASE OF QUEERBAG?

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You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web watchg Alex Danvers' journey wh her dghter "who, md you, I'm sure she's a ltle b gay" helped her unrstand her bt iend. 8% of regular characters on broadst scripted primetime programmg were gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer. Leigh's empathetic, vulnerable performance brgs the story to life—so persuasively that fans have asked her whether she's gay, she jok over the phone.

Whatever posive stris the Supernatural wrers may have thought they were achievg, they apparently fot about the “Bury Your Gays” trope, where an overwhelmg number of LGBTQ characters are killed, pecially after clarg or nsummatg their love.