Is Hoe of the Dragon Buryg Its Gays? | POPSUGAR Love & Sex

Contents:

• HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
• 'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
• WOKE OUTRAGE: LEFTISTS TRIGGERED BY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ KILLG OFF GAY CHARACTER
• 'HOE OF THE DRAGON': IS PRCS RHAENYRA A LBIAN? INTER HAILS 'GAY VIB' WH ALICENT
• IS "HOE OF THE DRAGON" BURYG ITS GAYS?

HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS

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. 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.

'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE

That's not to say all hope is lost, Laenor surviv the outdated trop long enough to bee a fully realised character, there remas some spe to move past all this and embrace queerns beyond flash of peen the brothel or this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. 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.

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.

WOKE OUTRAGE: LEFTISTS TRIGGERED BY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ KILLG OFF GAY CHARACTER

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?

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?

'HOE OF THE DRAGON': IS PRCS RHAENYRA A LBIAN? INTER HAILS 'GAY VIB' WH ALICENT

(CNN) -- "Hoe of the Dragon's" fifth episo is actually signifint for logistil reasons, sentially markg the end of the chapter before the show time jumps ahead, featurg olr versns of some characters and somewhat shufflg the the hour uld generate as much buzz for a btal ath that occurred, vg discsn of old ncerns and wounds about the way that LGBTQ characters are treated -- and more to the pot, killed off -- TV stris ma terms of greater cln have cid wh bate about how those characters are portrayed and the fat that they meet, givg rise to a much-discsed trope known as "Bury Your Gays.

" The phrase refers to a history which gay characters have disproportnately died as a plot vice, creatg the imprsn they are more expendable the ey of that, the "Game of Thron" prequel potentially wad to ntroversy wh s most recent episo, subtled "We Light the Way, " which aga monstrated, among other thgs, that Wteros not much good ever happens at weddgs. Knowg that Laenor is gay, Rhaenyra -- havg been remd by her uncle Daemon (Matt Smh) that marriage is merely a polil arrangement -- reassured him that they would sentially live separate liv, allowg him to ntue his relatnship wh Ser Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod).

That clus everythg om i to ct, and om the horrors of childbirth to securg regal succsn even if that means marryg off unr-age, troducg the relatnship between Laenor and Jofey only to dispatch the latter so quickly and horribly almost immediately prompted qutns on Twter on Sunday night about whether the "Bury Your Gays" trope appli here. "It's also worth notg that durg "Game of Thron'" heyday some asked if the show had a "gay problem, " as Vulture put a 2016 piece cg the number of LGBTQ characters who, up until that pot, had met a vlent arc of Laenor's character don't nclu wh the latt episo. Related: Nonbary Actor Emma D'Arcy Tak Lead Hoe of the DragonRelated: By Refg to Bury Its Gays, Wynonna Earp Chang the TV Game.

IS "HOE OF THE DRAGON" BURYG ITS GAYS?

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!!