Voltron: Legendary Defenr wrer Joaquim Dos Santos has apologised to fandom followg a backlash for the handlg of gay character Shiro’s storyle.
Contents:
- NETFLIX’S VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR NFIRMS ONE OF S SUPERHERO IS GAY
- VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ FOR SERI' HANDLG OF GAY RELATNSHIP
- NETFLIX'S 'VOLTRON' JT CONFIRMED ONE OF THE MA HERO IS GAY
- VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIS TO FANS AFTER BACKLASH OVER TREATMENT OF GAY CHARACTER
- VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR SHOWNNERS KNEW SHIRO WAS GAY FOR 'A VERY LONG TIME'
- VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ FOR SEASON 7'S TREATMENT OF GAY COUPLE
- VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR SHOWNNERS KNEW SHIRO WAS GAY FOR 'A VERY LONG TIME'
- VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ FOR SEASON 7'S TREATMENT OF GAY COUPLE
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.
VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ FOR SERI' HANDLG OF GAY RELATNSHIP
Voltron: Legenday Defenr executive producers Joaquim Dos Santos and Lren Montgomery reveal they knew Shiro was gay for a long time. * gay voltron *
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. — SHIRO’S GAY @ packg hell (@rou_tan_tan) July 22, 2018.
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. 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.
NETFLIX'S 'VOLTRON' JT CONFIRMED ONE OF THE MA HERO IS GAY
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 *
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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. 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. 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.
VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIS TO FANS AFTER BACKLASH OVER TREATMENT OF GAY CHARACTER
To Isaac, a gay Voltron fan who regularly discs the seri onle, ’s pretty simple. 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. 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. Keh and Lance are gay-d and bi-d, rpectively.
VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR SHOWNNERS KNEW SHIRO WAS GAY FOR 'A VERY LONG TIME'
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.
VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ FOR SEASON 7'S TREATMENT OF GAY COUPLE
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. Season seven not only nfirmed Shiro as gay, troducg (and then killg off) his love tert, but also showed two already known characters as partners crime and, apparently, life.
EntertamentNetflix's 'Voltron' Jt Confirmed One of the Ma Hero Is GayNetflixOne of the hero Netflix’s Voltron Legendary Defenr is gay, and the upg season he will return to his ex-fiancé after a long time the Voltron Legendary Defenr panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, the st and shownners of the popular Netflix animated seri gathered to preview the show’s upg seventh season, slated to premiere on Augt 10 wh 13 new a reveal that stunned the dience, -shownner Lren Montgomery nfirmed that Shiro, the lear of Voltron and pilot of the Black Ln (voiced by Josh Keaton), is gay. That he is also gay adds even more plexy to Shiro’s whole inty. Voltron: Legendary Defenr wrer Joaquim Dos Santos has penned an emotnal open letter to fans who have been eply hurt by the show's pictn of s first two gay Netflix animatn had been ially wily praised when announced that the seventh season would acknowledge that Shiro (aka the Black Palad) is gay and a long-term relatnship wh a prevly-unseen character named boss said that they always tend for Shiro to be gay and waed for to play out on-screen bee the world of Voltron is one of where "acceptance and cln is part of everyday life".
VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENR SHOWNNERS KNEW SHIRO WAS GAY FOR 'A VERY LONG TIME'
"We were credibly exced and proud when news broke (post SDCC) of Shiro beg revealed as a gay man.
"Dos Santos strsed that his wrers were aware of and keen to avoid the 'Bury Your Gays' trope TV and film wrg, but he unrstood why fans see Adam's ath as an example of that trope.
VOLTRON SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ FOR SEASON 7'S TREATMENT OF GAY COUPLE
Voltron: Legenday Defenr executive producers Joaquim Dos Santos and Lren Montgomery reveal they knew Shiro was gay for a long time. Voltron: Legendary Defenr shownners knew Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane was gay for a long time. The news was met wh cheers and applse at the nventn, and already the revelatn that Shiro is gay has swept through the Voltron fandom.
While at San Deigo Comic-Con, Screen Rant had to opportuny to discs the news of Shiro beg a gay character wh Voltron: Legendary Defenr's executive producers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Lren Montgomery. How long did you both know that Shiro was gay? We don’t really want to kill off our gay reprentatn.