Voltron shownner sorry for backlash over gay character’s storyle

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Voltron: Legendary Defenr wrer Joaquim Dos Santos has apologised to fandom followg a backlash for the handlg of gay character Shiro’s storyle.

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NETFLIX’S VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR NFIRMS ONE OF S SUPERHERO IS GAY

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The show ends wh them kissg at their weddg, a moment that off as a fairly weak attempt to pacify fans who lashed out at the "Bury Your Gays" trope Adam's mise embodied. Most people didn't know Shiro was gay the first place, rultg a revelatn that off feelg shed, as though the Voltron wrers never really valued LGBT reprentatn the first place. A ma character Netflix’s Voltron: Legendary Defenr is gay, has been revealed.

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Voltron: Legenday Defenr executive producers Joaquim Dos Santos and Lren Montgomery reveal they knew Shiro was gay for a long time. * gay voltron *

In an onle statement through Santos' Twter acunt, the executive producer explaed the ratnale behd how the Netflix seri portrayed Shiro's relatnship wh Adam and the tratn fans felt how the show's first nfirmed gay character was ultimately picted. We were credibly exced and proud when news broke (post SDCC) of Shiro beg revealed as a gay man.

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Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane is a gay character om Voltron: Legendary Defenr. This sectn is need of major improvement. Please help improve this article by edg . Shiro was a member of the Galaxy Garrison team sent to Kerberos. While there, they were ptured by the Galra empire and... * gay voltron *

We were aware of the "bury your gays" trope but hoped agast hope that our stggle to nfirm Shiro's orientatn would take center stage here. RELATED: Voltron Creativ Confirm Key Character Is Gay.

Fans acced the Voltron crew of queerbag and vokg the “bury your gays” trope. The “bury your gays” trope refers to queer characters beg killed off for shock value and/or to further the velopment of a more central character.

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Others argued that revealg that Shiro was gay at the seri’ SDCC panel build up signifint excement only to lead to disappot the seri and a lack of reference to Shiro and Adam beg a relatnship the seri.

VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR SHOWNNERS KNEW SHIRO WAS GAY FOR 'A VERY LONG TIME'

In addn, many fans believed that Adam’s ath perpetuated the “bury your gays” trope given that he was troduced to the seri and killed wh the season. “We were aware of the ‘bury your gays’ trope but hoped agast hope that our stggle to nfirm Shiro’s orientatn would take center stage here, ” Dos Santos wrote. 4% to reprent the wi and diverse group of lbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgenr, genrqueer, tersex, and asexual people Ameri.

To Isaac, a gay Voltron fan who regularly discs the seri onle, ’s pretty simple.

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Many even see Lance as exclively gay and do whatever they n to mimize his feelgs toward the many women characters he’s flirted wh. “Fandom has a pattern of rejectg female characters so (the fans) n have their ‘gay ship’ (ship beg two characters fans want to see together) which is fetishizg male/male relatnships, ” explas Hazel who adms to havg done the same thg when she was younger.

VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR SHOWNNERS KNEW SHIRO WAS GAY FOR 'A VERY LONG TIME'

Jt for this article alone we spoke wh fans who intified as bisexual, genrqueer, pansexual, transgenr, gay, qutng, panromantic, and asexual. In recent years Netflix has released a few animated TV seri that show nonilly gay relatnships and non-bary characters (e.

Voltron was not only created by The Legend of Korra producers, but also hted at gay romance sce season one.

VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ FOR SEASON 7'S TREATMENT OF GAY COUPLE

Keh and Lance are gay-d and bi-d, rpectively.

People fight agast homophobia every day, while producers fight to attract all sorts of dienc – both queer and queerphobic. Another ma character, Shiro, who was nfirmed nonilly gay and season seven they troduced his love tert, Adam. Way to bury the gay, right?

But alas, some claim the queer muny should be satisfied the end as the seri fale livered an on-screen gay kiss and a happy endg for Shiro. Both the kiss and the weddg were meant as an olive branch to the LGBTQ+ muny, shown as the creds were rollg and the creators were certa they wouldn’t lose the homophobic dience.

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