Bury Your Gays: A look at HBO’s Game of Thron – RTF Genr and Media Culture

Contents:

• 'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
• ‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• THE GAME OF THRON CAST AS IMAGED BY ‘GAY OF THRON’
• OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
• ‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR KRISTIAN NAIRN COM OUT AS GAY
• BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON
• BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON
• OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON

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

In the mystil land of Wteros, they’ve got everythg — dragons, Whe Walkers, and a whole lot of gays.

‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY

Inty: GayLikelihood of Stg on the Iron Throne: Not happeng, ever sce a hly born shadow monster took his life and claim to the throne.

THE GAME OF THRON CAST AS IMAGED BY ‘GAY OF THRON’

By the way, Kristian Nairn, who played the beloved protector, is gay.

OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON

Inty: GayLikelihood of Stg on the Iron Throne: As he was mutilated and blown to piec Kg's Landg, the most persecuted character’s only chance of makg back to the Iron Throne is as a ghost.

Sexualy: GayLikelihood of Stg on the Iron Throne: While Ltlefger’s sex worker and spy might have had some noteworthy nnectns to Loras Tyrell and the Martells, ’s unclear if Oliver is ad, alive, or somethg between. La producción HBO, Juego Tronos (Game of Thron), una las más exosas la historia gracias a una trama que cluye a fascant personaj LGBT+ quien, amás, protagonizan apasnadas cenas sexo gay, lésbi y bisexual.

El personaje terpretado por el actor Geth Anthony en la serie televisiva gay y protagoniza algunas cenas bastante nnt y explícas. Una vez en Kgslandg, Loras víctima Cersei y arrtado por ser gay gracias al ttimon un trabajador sexual n quien se volucra. Game of Thron no solo tiene personaj gays, so que cuenta n otros que pertenecen a otras intidas la unidad LGBT+.

‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR KRISTIAN NAIRN COM OUT AS GAY

Of urse, one thg to keep md is that our morn lexin of sexualy wouldn't have been translated to the world of Game of Thron, so intifitn via labels like "gay" and "lbian" wasn't available to the characters. What plac Loras at the bottom of the list is the fact that his whole character is fed by harmful gay stereotyp, pecially nsirg he (and Renly) were the first LGBTQ+ characters Game of Thron we were troduced to.

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The show's first gay moment is. homosexual, and his sister too for knowg about . for beg the only gay man still alive the seri.

BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON

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.

BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON

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.

OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON

En la tierra místi Wteros, lo tienen todo: dragon, mant blans y muchos gays. Renly BaratheonIntidad: gayProbabilidad sentarse en el Trono Hierro: No así, s que un monsto la sombra recién nacido se quó la vida y reclamó el trono. Por cierto, Kristian Nairn, quien terpretó al querido protector, gay.

Loras TyrellIntidad: gayProbabilidad tar sentado en el Trono Hierro: mientras fue mutilado y hecho pedazos en el Dembar l Rey, la úni posibilidad l personaje más perseguido regrar al Trono Hierro o un fantasma. OlyvarSexualidad: GayProbabilidad tar sentado en el Trono Hierro: nque la trabajadora sexual y el pía Ltlefger podrían haber tenido algunas nexn notabl n Loras Tyrell y los Martell, no tá claro si Oliver tá muerto, vivo o algo por el tilo. 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.