Hollywood's "Bury Your Gays" Trope Explaed: History & Controversy

Contents:

• 'BURY YOUR GAYS': WHY ARE SO MANY LBIAN TV CHARACTERS DYG OFF?
• HOLLYWOOD'S "BURY YOUR GAYS" TROPE EXPLAED: HISTORY & CONTROVERSY
• 13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH
• THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY
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• THE LAST OF US FOUGHT BACK AGAST THE PAFUL BURY YOUR GAYS TROPE. IT PAID OFF
• BURY YOUR GAYS: WHY ‘THE 100,’ ‘WALKG DEAD’ DEATHS ARE PROBLEMATIC (GUT COLUMN)
• OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’
• "KILL YOUR GAYS"
• BURY YOUR GAYS: A TROUBLOME TROPE

'BURY YOUR GAYS': WHY ARE SO MANY LBIAN TV CHARACTERS DYG OFF?

Bury Your Gays is a trope where LGBT characters are killed off disproportnately often and/or whout extends further to beg that often, pecially olr works (to the extent that they are found olr works, of urse), gay characters jt aren't allowed happy endgs. Of urse, n also happen to gay characters who aren't relatnships, particularly if they're Psycho Lbians or Depraved Homosexuals. This may be bee they are often afford more storyl that aren't exclively gay.

One discsed issue that may ntribute to so many works buryg their gays is that wrers stggle wh how to handle them — they are often created as a flat character wh "gay" as their entire characterizatn, so once the gay-related plots have dried out the wrers will recycle this one, too.

In other s, a predomantly straight show may brg a gay character for a Very Special Episo and don't know how to anilly jt wre the character out once the story has been told, so kill them off stead. Addnally, if the stud or producers are lookg for thgs to cut, the characters that viewers are supposedly ls likely to associate wh will go revival of mass age of this trope 2015/16 (pecially wh regards to thgs that happened realy — an crease homophobic attacks, cludg the Pulse nightclub shootg), particularly for female LGBT characters, sparked a lot of outrage and a pledge ("The Lexa Pledge", after a ma lbian character on The 100 that was offhandly killed) to enurage show-nners' rensiratn if planng to implement the trope. " Shortly thereafter, a number aths of other queer women characters on shows cludg "The Vampire Diari" and "Bldspot", spawned the hashtag woman even ma a Halloween stume out of the #BuryYourGays trope.

HOLLYWOOD'S "BURY YOUR GAYS" TROPE EXPLAED: HISTORY & CONTROVERSY

"Dpe the "Bury Your Gays" trope, Bendix remas hopeful when to the future of lbian and bisexual women reprented on televisn. The "bury your gays" trope is one of Hollywood's most prevalent LGBTQ+ stori. In recent years, dienc have heard more about the "bury your gays" trope, leadg to qutns about s history Hollywood and why 's so ntroversial.

Though some stori are slowly startg to break the mold, the bury your gays trope is one that ntu to plague LGBTQ+ media.

What The "Bury Your Gays" Trope Means. The "bury your gays" trope has been so named bee LGBTQ+ characters are far more likely to die film and televisn than their cisgenr and heterosexual unterparts.

13 UNTRI WHERE BEG GAY IS LEGALLY PUNISHABLE BY ATH

In early film and 19th-century lerature, the bury your gays trope was actually a refuge for queer thors.

This workaround allowed LGBTQ+ stori to be told but me at the price of queer characters beg portrayed as mentally ill or simply nfed and often rulted their lovers beg "fixed" of their homosexualy after their aths. "Bury Your Gays" And The Hays Co. One of the greatt exampl of the bury your gays trope unr the Hays Co is The Children's Hour, which tells the story of two boardg school teachers who are acced of havg a lbian affair.

"Bury Your Gays" In Morn Films. Though Hollywood has moved beyond the Hays Co, the bury your gays trope is still heavily prent LGBTQ+ narrativ.

THE 6 COUNTRI EXECUTE PEOPLE FOR BEG GAY

Queer characters morn film are equently the target of homophobia-driven abe, murr, and ridicule.

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The AIDS epimic is another largely popular topic morn LGBTQ+ reprentatn, arrivg as yet another way for film creators to bury their gays. Suici still prevails as another way "bury your gays" claims the liv of LGBTQ+ characters, often takg their liv as a rult of ostracizatn and rejectn. Dpe the prevalent history of the bury your gays trope, there is still hope for the future of LGBTQ+ narrativ.

As more queer stori are beg told, more diverse queer stori are beg told, and creators are leavg behd "bury your gays" to stead embrace fully-veloped LGBTQ+ characters and their stori.

THE LAST OF US FOUGHT BACK AGAST THE PAFUL BURY YOUR GAYS TROPE. IT PAID OFF

The "Bury Your Gays" trope has bee a part of cultual knowledge recent years, but not everyone has gotten the memo. The trope also extends to films, and gay and bi men. Shows like Killg Eve, and most recently, Hoe of the Dragon, are still btally and needlsly killg off their queer characters stead of lettg them be are 15 of the most egreg -- and btal -- recent exampl of the Bury Your Gays trope.

Hoe of the Dragon didn't blaze this trail for GOT buryg s gays. All throughout s n, fans were beggg for a gay uple to be troduced on Netflix's Voltron. And jt like that, the show's only gay uple was gone.

It: Chapter Two's gay bashg scene.

BURY YOUR GAYS: WHY ‘THE 100,’ ‘WALKG DEAD’ DEATHS ARE PROBLEMATIC (GUT COLUMN)

Y, It is a horror movie about a murro embodiment of evil, but that don't mean that viewers were ready to see an extremely graphic gay-bashg scene to open the film up. At the begng of the movie we travel to Derry's past, where we see two gay men on a date get terpted by a group of homophobic bigots, beat up, and thrown to the 's an uncserly upsettg scene that followed a great first movie. This year, the Halloween anchise brought s first gay characters s 43-year history.

OKLAHOMA GOP NDIDATE LLS KILLG GAY PEOPLE ‘TOTALLY JT’

Big John and Ltle John were troduced Halloween Kills as jt an average gay uple, who unfortunately, lived the hoe that Michael Meyers grew up . In the latt episo, we fally got to see the show's lone gay male character, Laenor Valaryon, get a lover.

"KILL YOUR GAYS"

Is easit to throw a gay off a high buildg or burn him to ath? Mlim cleric backs gay burngs [Pk News].

Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #homophobia #islam #news stori and more. But for viewers all-too-faiar wh the pa of watchg a queer character meet a tragic end – a trope referred to as “Buryg/Bury Your Gays” – felt like a shot to the back.

BURY YOUR GAYS: A TROUBLOME TROPE

Not every gay ath is an example of this trope.