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Contents:
- HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
- IS RHAENYRA TARGARYEN GAY HOE OF THE DRAGON?
- GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’
- 'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
- IS LAENOR GAY HOE OF THE DRAGON?
- HOE OF THE DRAGON TRODUC GAY CHARACTER AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC: ‘THE GAY ANGST IS PALPABLE’
- IS LAENOR VELARYON GAY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON?’
- ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ BASHED AFTER GAY CHARACTER DEATH
HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
* gay house of the dragons *
Warng: Spoilers for Hoe of the Dragon ’s Hoe of the Dragon may be a show full of giant dragons and spooky propheci, but s cisn to spare not one, but two gay characters seemgly sted for ath somehow feels even more a massive change om Gee R.
I know ’s Game of Thron, but to have our heroe workg to kill the gay hband she says she lov her own way jt for some ct-y schemg?
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.
IS RHAENYRA TARGARYEN GAY HOE OF THE DRAGON?
Hoe of the Dragon episo 5 feeds to the extremely tired and outdated Bury Your Gays trope wh a btal character ath. * gay house of the dragons *
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. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web my gay ass shippg Rhaenyra and Alicent knowg damn well won't happen ? Friends, is gay to ll your btie to ri a dragon wh you? It is wily believed that Rhaenyra’s future children are bastards, born to Ser Harw Strong fily, and not to may meet a few more LGBTQ character 'Hoe of the Dragon, ' as Laenor is a nfirmed gay character om Ice and Fire non, sexualy is pretty fluid the world.
GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’
The "bury your gays" trope rears s ugly head once aga. * gay house of the dragons *
Wh Laenor already beg gay, wouldn’t be surprisg if Rhaenyra and Laenor’s sister wanted to explore a siar relatnship. THATS GAY. Not my gay ass shippg Rhaenyra and Alicent knowg damn well won’t happen ? Friends, is gay to ll your btie to ri a dragon wh you?
'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
Based on what we've seen Hoe of the Dragon's first episo, uld Rhaenyra Targaryen be gay? Fd out the tth wh this gui. * gay house of the dragons *
The gays of thron, if you of Thron, as 's more wily known, has always had a long history of killg pretty much everyone, y, but when me to LGBTQ+ characters, there was always a homophobic subtext that beme impossible to ignore.
Well, y, but there rema specific exampl, even 2022, where the mistreatment and celty that queer people suffer grossly outweighs what happens to their straight of like real life, Hoe of the Dragon, a show where gays n fy all odds and live happily love together, but only for a scene or two, bee straight teasg (queerbag? This is a fictnal world where homophobia don't have to be a, that don't stop Laenor om tongug his lover Ser Jofey Lonmouth every chance he gets... NetflixJofey, overe wh the gay need to gossip, tells Criston that he's well aware of the knight's relatnship wh Rhaenyra.
IS LAENOR GAY HOE OF THE DRAGON?
Game of Thron prequel Hoe of the Dragon dropped s first episo to praise – and trigue over gay vib between Rhaenyra and Alicent. * gay house of the dragons *
Kill the gays, by all means, but when the gay qutn is one of the first and only queer people on the entire show, murrg them such a cel, sadistic way rerc harmful, dated trop.
Why should we feel anythg but rentment for a character whose securi led to such a specifilly homophobic form of vlence?
A gay man, if you, and this isn't the first time that the Game of Thron anchise has pulled a stunt like this eher. HBOAnd y, that last sentence refers to yet another disproportnately cel ath for the gays, se you were 'd thk that Hoe of the Dragon would have learned more om the mistak that Game of Thron once ma, yet here we are still havg the same old nversatn aga 2022. That's not to say all hope is lost, Laenor surviv the outdated trop long enough to bee a fully realised character, there remas some spe to move past all this and embrace queerns beyond flash of peen the brothel or this tired 'Bury Your Gays' trope.
HOE OF THE DRAGON TRODUC GAY CHARACTER AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC: ‘THE GAY ANGST IS PALPABLE’
Hoe of the Dragon has troduced gay character Laenor Velaryon the most epic way possible episo three. * gay house of the dragons *
Hoe of the Dragon, HBO's massively succsful Game of Thron prequel seri, nfirmed a gay character on last night's episo, "We Light The Way. Velaryon was mored to be gay the book Hoe of the Dragon is based on but the seri didn't nfirm his sexualy until now. \u201cthey both married gay men and told them "you do you i support you" really the biggt alli all Wteros #HoeOfTheDragon\u201d — rhaenyra targaryen's lawyer (@rhaenyra targaryen's lawyer).
In rponse, Criston btally beats Jofey to ath and we get a gut-wrenchg scene of Velaryon sobbg wh his lover's body his won this round, Bury Your Gays trope! Here are some of our favore reactns to the episo below:\u201cshoutout to Laenor beg a gay in and Rhaenyra beg an ally!! 1663559954\u201cIt's seems gays n never be happy this show \n#HoeOfTheDragonHBO \n#HoeOfTheDragon\u201d — Bishal Adhikari (@Bishal Adhikari).
Fire & Blood has var other proment gay characters, cludg Rhaenyra’s anctor Queen Rhaena Targaryen, as well as Rhaenyra’s own and hband, Ser Laenor Velaryon. Mart wr that Rhaenyra’s great-great-nt Rhaena Targaryen married Androw Farman — the gay son of the lord of Fair Isle — so that she uld be wh her te love, his betiful and ee-spired sister, Lady Elissa Farman. Laenor, to Rhaenyra, was nonilly gay the source material book Fire & Blood.
IS LAENOR VELARYON GAY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON?’
The phrase refers to a history which gay characters have disproportnately died as a plot vice. * gay house of the dragons *
So, orr to cipher this hypothis, we’ll take a eper look to the first episo and the overall lore of the famo seri to fd out if Rhaenyra is gay. Hopefully, this gui giv you a better unrstandg of the newt gay theory about Rhaenyra Targaryen, and we will have to wa and see what happens next for the character future episos. The gayt aspect of the first episo was by far the dynamic set up between Rhaenyra and her stepmother Lady Alicent, played by Ey Carey.
“Me watchg Alicent and Rhaenyra teractg when I know the story, Gay is , Gay is hot. I want some gay. Gay ’s gog to be, ” another viewer wrote.
‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ BASHED AFTER GAY CHARACTER DEATH
“Rhaenyra and Alicent are so gay, like baby Rhaenyra only wants to go fly on her dragon and eat ke wh her girliend; if that a’t the gayt thong ever…” someone else add. Not my gay ass shippg Rhaenyra and Alicent knowg damn well won't happen ? Friends, is gay to ll your btie to ri a dragon wh you? 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!!