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Contents:
- HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
- HOE OF THE DRAGON TRODUC GAY CHARACTER AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC: ‘THE GAY ANGST IS PALPABLE’
- 'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
- IS "HOE OF THE DRAGON" BURYG ITS GAYS?
- HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER
- GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’
- 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
HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
Hoe of the Dragon episo 5 feeds to the extremely tired and outdated Bury Your Gays trope wh a btal character ath. * house of the dragon gay couple *
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?
And we all know how that 's no “gay” Game of Thron, bee this is a world of strict, heteronormative tradnalism.
Thron' treatment of gays has been a long-standg pot of Vulture's Brian Moylan wrote of the Game of Thron season six fale back 2016, “gay characters on Game of Thron have met pecially bloody and ignom aths”.
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. * house of the dragon gay couple *
The manner of their aths is appropriate for the anchise's unrelentgly bleak tone, but 's troublg that gay characters are still relegated to vic monstrative of 's queerns prumably isn't gog anywhere, so his characterisatn has plenty of room to breathe.
“[Rso] noted a trend some film reprentatn where the gay man is prented only to meet an unhappy, punishg and often fatal endg, ” he wr, also evokg US amic John Clum's analysis of the trend on stage as “rualistic purgatn”.
It's not jt the gays that get the short end of the world of Game of Thron, but 's unsettlg that, even 2022, a roomful of wrers might still flt to the same of the Dragon is streamg on Sky and Now. 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?
'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
The "bury your gays" trope rears s ugly head once aga. * house of the dragon gay couple *
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?
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?
IS "HOE OF THE DRAGON" BURYG ITS GAYS?
In HBO's Hoe of the Dragon, a queer character was btally killed, leadg many to thk of the "bury your gays" trope. * house of the dragon gay couple *
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.
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. 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. Wh Laenor already beg gay, wouldn’t be surprisg if Rhaenyra and Laenor’s sister wanted to explore a siar relatnship.
HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER
* house of the dragon gay couple *
Hoe of the Dragon has troduced gay character Laenor Velaryon the most epic way possible. “We have a Black gay man on a dragon! “A strong gay character ridg a dragon!
We got our first bad ass gay dragon rir tonight! Laenor was lerally: be gay do crim while enjoy burng people wh Seasmoke… I LOVE HIM WKKSKSKW #Hoeofthedragon— karenofhoetargaryen (@karentargaryen) September 5, 2022. absolute highlight was seeg my favoure lil gay dragon rir?
GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’
Game of Thron prequel Hoe of the Dragon dropped s first episo to praise – and trigue over gay vib between Rhaenyra and Alicent. * house of the dragon gay couple *
gay rights?
The gays tonight said DRACARYS! The gay angst.
The gays won this episo + Laenor.? Followg the footsteps of Game of Thron, and other shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The 100 and Killg Eve, Hoe of the Dragon has succumb to the “bury your gays” trope – which se queer characters meet vastatg ends.
WOKE OUTRAGE: LEFTISTS TRIGGERED BY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ KILLG OFF GAY CHARACTER
'Hoe of the Dragon' troduced a gay uple jt to kill off one-half of , addg to the exhstgly limed LGBTQ characters the show. * house of the dragon gay couple *
Shoutout to Laenor beg a gay in and Rhaenyra beg an ally!! i enjoyed the lte chat rhaenyra had wh laenor like "okay i know you're gay so here's the plan: we pretend to be a uple, do our duty meanwhile realy we fuck who we want".
I love how Rhaenyra and Laenor have their ltle unrstandg and gay analogi, ’s lerally how s irl talk about beg gay??? “Surely you didn’t thk you’d get a ls than horrific gay plot le this show? While another add: “Lovg Hoe Of The Dragon but did we really need to do the whole Bury Your Gays trope the year of our lord 2022?
'HOE OF THE DRAGON': IS PRCS RHAENYRA A LBIAN? INTER HAILS 'GAY VIB' WH ALICENT
Another summed up: “I was a fool to thk for a send that the gays uld w & be happy a Game of Thron world. Why do they always kill off the gay characters right away?!? If there’s one thg about gay relatnships the Game of Thron Universe, there’s never a happy endg #HoeOfTheDragonHBO— Gandalfthegay (@guppiechef) September 19, 2022.
It's seems gays n never be happy this show #HoeOfTheDragonHBO #HoeOfTheDragon — Daemon Targaryen (@Daemontargrayen) September 19, 2022.