J is gay on 'The Walkg Dead.' Here’s why that matters.

Contents:

• ‘THE WALKG DEAD’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• FACT CHECK: IS ROSS MARQUAND GAY REAL LIFE?
• THE WALKG DEAD FANS ARE FUR ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER’S BEEN KILLED OFF
• UN PERSONNAGE GAY DANS THE WALKG DEAD SAISON 5 ?
• THE WALKG DEAD PRENTA SU PRIMER PERSONAJE GAY
• THE WALKG DEAD SAISON 5 : UN ACTR STé POUR JOUER UN PERSONNAGE GAY ?
• J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.
• WHY WALKG DEAD CANCELED PLANS FOR ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER
• WHY BEG GAY ON THE WALKG DEAD REALLY DON'T MATTER, ACRDG TO ONE STAR
• THE WALKG DEAD STAR SAYS GAY ROMANCE HAPPENED OFF SCREEN
• THE WALKG DEAD’S “THE OTHER SI” REVEALS A MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY
• THE WALKG DEAD‘S FIRST GAY MALE CHARACTER: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

‘THE WALKG DEAD’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY

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The Walkg Dead actor Daniel Newman has e out as gay. When a young woman at the centre thanked him for supportg the LGBTQ muny, prumg the actor was heterosexual, Newman rrected her by sayg he is gay.

FACT CHECK: IS ROSS MARQUAND GAY REAL LIFE?

Earlier this month, was nfirmed that one of The Walkg Dead‘s ma characters is gay. ClaimLike Aaron on the h show, Ross Marquand om The Walkg Dead is gay real life. But fans n’t help but wonr if Marquand is also gay.

Read on for more about Marquand’s relatnship has that the actor who portrays one half of TWD‘s first gay uple is gay real life. However, whether he is gay or straight, there is no nyg that Ross Marquand has a great sense of 2013, the actor tweeted that he is hangg out wh his “girliend” and that she was hilar. He was one of the first gay characters on the show, and his love tert was Eric Raleigh, played by Jordan Woods-Robson.

THE WALKG DEAD FANS ARE FUR ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER’S BEEN KILLED OFF

Though the bullet went through him, we saw Aaron pull Eric by some tre to safety, and go back to he returns, he see’s a bloodied tree tnk, Eric’s rifle, and to his sorrow Eric, now a walker, wanrg away towards a nearby Ross Marquand Really Gay? The Walkg Dead is takg aim at homophobia, as well as a small, but vol segment of viewers rpond negatively to the cln of a gay uple the sp-off seri The Walkg Dead: World Beyond, the anchise rpond om s official Twter acunt.

”Jelani Allad and Ni Tortorella portray a gay uple 'The Walkg Dead: World Beyond' (Photo Cred: Mall Polay/AMC)Premierg last October, World Beyond was a teen-centric variatn on The Walkg Dead, followg four adolcents who are among the first generatn to grow up a world populated by bra-eatg monsters. Oh we n’t fd a character for you, screw you’re gay wh this guy.

UN PERSONNAGE GAY DANS THE WALKG DEAD SAISON 5 ?

However, Tara’s ath also got a lot of people riled as spelled the send removal of a rare gay character on the show this same season. You’re probably aware that this is a troublg trope not jt  TWD but across the televisn landspe, wh the tratg trend so popular ’s often known as the “buryg your gays” trope. I LITERALLY DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE WHO DIED EXCEPT ENID AND TARA WHY DID THE SMARTEST DOCTOR AND ANOTHER HILLTOP LEADER DIE (also @ the walkg ad stop killg the gays off) #TheWalkgDead — khalil (@khvl1l) March 25, 2019 THEY KILLED TARA, ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS AND ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER FUCK OFF #TheWalkgDead — jordan (@jensmish) March 26, 2019 You jt had to kill Tara, didn't you??

#TheWalkgDead #BuryYourGays — Krystle?? It's weird they were too sred to do that but were fe to kill off all but one of their queer characters — Moe: Sparkledog edn (@EnbyDal) March 25, 2019 Are we surprised #walkgad did the bury your gays trope more than once? How e they always gotta kill off the gays?

THE WALKG DEAD PRENTA SU PRIMER PERSONAJE GAY

@WalkgDead_AMC @AMCTalkgDead On the topic of killg off tara, why as soon as you troduce new gay characters you kill off an old one? — Syd (@squidr14) March 25, 2019 Alongsi Magna and Yumiko, Aaron (Ross Marquand) is the only other proment gay character left alive on the seri.

D’après le se The Hollywood Reporter, il pourra asi jouer le rôle d’Aaron, personnage gay présent dans l ics books. Entre actn, horrr et drame, The Walkg Dead retrace l mésaventur  Rick Grim (Andrew Lln, nnu pour son rôle Mark dans le film Love Actually) et son groupe arrivée très attendueRobert Kirkman, scénariste du ic book et productr la série, ava déclaré en novembre rnier: « Un personnage gay très important du ic book va faire s débuts dans la série. Robert Kirkman, productor ejecutivo y tor los cómics en los que se basa la serie, alantaba que un "promente" personaje gay llegaría en la próxima tanda pítulos la ficción postapolípti.

THE WALKG DEAD SAISON 5 : UN ACTR STé POUR JOUER UN PERSONNAGE GAY ?

De ahí que, según publi TV Le, Marquand fue el elegido para dar vida a Aaron, el primer personaje gay en.

J IS GAY ON 'THE WALKG DEAD.' HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS.

No obstante, Kirkman rolvió la cutión en el mismo programa afirmando lo siguiente: "en la sección rtas los cómics que hago mencné que s el prcip existía la posibilidad hacer que el personaje Daryl Dixon fuera gay. He is a role mol, spiratn, and a mentor to other characters and a perfect example that prov to all the anti-LGBTQIA+ people that beg gay don’t mean you are a bad says:I would say whout doubt ’s Strand Fear.

The Walkg Dead saison 5: un actr sté pour jouer un personnage gay?

P nnu du grand public, il apparaîtra dans la uxième partie la saison 5, et selon l premièr mrs il pourra bien terpréter un personnage homosexuel présent dans l ics. La particularé d’Aaron t qu’il t l’un s sls personnag homosexuels The Walkg Dead.

WHY WALKG DEAD CANCELED PLANS FOR ITS FIRST GAY CHARACTER

Et si pour le moment rien n’dique clairement que l’actr endossera ce rôle, Robert Kirkman ava promis en novembre rnier l’arrivée prochae « d’un personnage gay très important dans la ban-ssée » le moment, l productrs la série n’ont pas annoncé dans quel épiso l’actr fera son arrivée. In The Walkg Dead ics, he's gay. He's a badass, and he happens to be gay.

"While he isn't the first gay character to be featured on the AMC seri, J beg gay is still a big al for televisn 2017. Progrs has been ma, but gay characters still acunt for a small percentage of total TV rol, acrdg to the latt numbers om GLAAD's 2016 "Where We Are on TV" report.

WHY BEG GAY ON THE WALKG DEAD REALLY DON'T MATTER, ACRDG TO ONE STAR

The "bury your gays" trope beme a hot topic last year after The 100 ntroversially killed off a character named Lexa, shortly after her relatnship wh another female character was nsummated. The Walkg Dead has also stggled to portray s only current gay relatnship between Alexandrians Aaron and Eric. Before Aaron or Pl "J" Monroe me to the picture, The Walkg Dead was set to troduce s first gay character much earlier the story.

The seri never strayed away om s diversy, gog on to troduce several gay survivors who would quickly go on to bee fan favor, but seri -creator and wrer Robert Kirkman planned an earlier troductn for the seri' leap to diverse new characters.

THE WALKG DEAD STAR SAYS GAY ROMANCE HAPPENED OFF SCREEN

The first openly gay character troduced wh The Walkg Dead ic seri is Aaron, an experienced recer for Virgia's Alexandria Safe Zone muny. It's nearly two years later when the ic troduc yet another major gay character Pl "J" Monroe. The letters pag of The Walkg Dead Deluxe #50 reveal exactly who Kirkman tend to have as the seri' first major gay survivor, and 's none other than The Governor's former litenant, Martez.

THE WALKG DEAD’S “THE OTHER SI” REVEALS A MAJOR CHARACTER IS GAY

In discsg his cisn to scrap the reveal that Martez was gay, Kirkman mented, "I remembered that I was planng to have Rick beat him to ath—then I thought, probably not the bt thg to do wh your first proment gay character. The Walkg Dead Was Wise To Change Its First Openly Gay Character.

Martez beg troduced as the first openly gay character, only to have himself beaten by Rick a few issu later would have drastilly taken away the momentum that Kirkman had planned wh the reveal. Future gay characters like Pl Monroe are not only pable of handg themselv but n be tsted nfidant and close iends to Rick throughout the remar of the seri. It's poetic that two of the seri' most fan-favore and perseverg gay characters, Pl and Aaron, would end the seri as lovers.

While earlier seasons alt more wh race and genr, Season 4 brought sexualy to the fold wh the openly gay character of Tara Chambler. I don’t thk beg gay is a big al general.

THE WALKG DEAD‘S FIRST GAY MALE CHARACTER: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Tara beg gay is not the most important aspect of her character and has never been her character’s fg fact, The Walkg Dead has been so matter-of-fact about both of Tara’s relatnships sce Season 4 that her romanc have been rehg breaks om the melodramas of the Glenn/Maggie saga and the Rick/Jsie flirtatn. 's arrival at Alexandria brought another gay uple to the fold wh Aaron and Eric. Hopefully, beg gay the zombie apolypse will ntue to be treated well on the show.

Later, an terview wh THR, Payne exprsed disappotment at the lack of gay storyl for J.

The Walkg Dead’s “The Other Si” Reveals a Major Character is Gay. Durg an emotnal nversatn between Maggie and J, the latter will reveal he is gay. Did you know that at one pot the show’s producers nsired havg Daryl Dixon e out as gay?