Actor Kristian Nairn plays fahful and gigantic servant Hodor on the HBO fantasy seri "Game of Thron," where his character says only his own name over and over. But when Nairn spoke to fan se Wter Is Comg for an terview published Tuday, he had many thgs to say, cludg that he is asked about his followg among the Bear subgroup of the gay muny, Nairn said that the
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- ‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR KRISTIAN NAIRN COM OUT AS GAY
- OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
- ‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
- GAME OF THRON AUTHOR EXPLAS WHY THERE'S NO GAY SEX HIS BOOKS
- HOW "GAME OF THRON" ED LORAS TYRELL: HBO'S “GAY RTOON” IS SO MUCH MORE THE BOOKS
- 'GAME OF THRON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR KRISTIAN NAIRN COM OUT AS GAY
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In the mystil land of Wteros, they’ve got everythg — dragons, Whe Walkers, and a whole lot of gays.
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. By the way, Kristian Nairn, who played the beloved protector, is gay. 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.
OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
"When you talk about 'the gay muny,' you're talkg about my muny," he says * game of thornes gay *
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. 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.
‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
Chaos isn't a p. Chaos is a ladr... a gay ladr. * game of thornes gay *
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.
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.
GAME OF THRON AUTHOR EXPLAS WHY THERE'S NO GAY SEX HIS BOOKS
Actor Kristian Nairn – aka Hodor on “Game of Thron” – was never the closet, but he wants to “stand up and be unted” as a gay man. * game of thornes gay *
As a stark ntrast of gay reprentatn to Loras, Renly serv to portray a very different LGBTQ+ experience for the viewers to potentially relate to on Game on Thron. "When you talk about 'the gay muny, ' you're talkg about my muny, " he says. Actor Kristian Nairn, who plays Hodor on Game of Thron, me out as gay a recent terview wh, a fan se for the show.
HOW "GAME OF THRON" ED LORAS TYRELL: HBO'S “GAY RTOON” IS SO MUCH MORE THE BOOKS
Gee R.R. Mart wrote Loras as roundly as any other Wterosi man, but on HBO, he's jt Maergery's gay brother * game of thornes gay *
“When you talk about ‘the gay muny, ’ you are talkg about my muny, ” he said, later addg, “I’ve never hidn my sexualy om anyone, my whole life fact, and I’ve been wag for someone to ask about an terview, ’e ’s not somethg you jt blurt out. After the story began circulatg onle, Nairn mented on Twter that he thought people already knew that he was gay and that he had always assumed was no big al. To put simply, I’m not so sure this show is a great iend of the gays.
The first gay character we met the world of Game of Thron was Renly Baratheon, brother of Kg Robert Baratheon.
'GAME OF THRON' ACTOR OUT AS GAY
Sce homosexualy isn’t wily accepted the society Mart has created, Loras is closeted and fds himself engaged - agast his will - to several female characters, cludg the betiful, young (though at the time, hopelsly naïve) Sansa Stark and the cel, thls Cersei Lannister (who is closeted herself, although her secret lover is actually her tw brother).
The days, Loras is prison, held by a relig cult for the crime of beg gay. While s three gay or bisexual men have all found some way to be killed or punished ways that almost seem remiscent of the 1950s, the women of Game of Thron show absolutely no tert tradnal genr rol.
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