Bury Your Gays trope panel at ATX Televisn Ftival talks about Lexa ath on 'The 100' and more.
Contents:
- WHAT LED TO LEXA: A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF MEDIA BURYG ITS GAYS
- ‘THE 100’ SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ TO FANS FOR NTROVERSY OVER BELOVED GAY CHARACTER’S ATH
WHAT LED TO LEXA: A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF MEDIA BURYG ITS GAYS
But now, fally, The 100 has troduced s first gay character (that we know of). In a media landspe where gay, lbian and bisexual characters are still often fed maly by their sexualy, havg Lexa — one of the show’s strongt, most well-liked characters — sually reveal that she’s queer and then rry on wh her day sends a strong and important msage to young viewers. Several supportg/recurrg gay characters are featured on Supernatural, The Vampire Diari, Jane the Virg, Arrow and The Origals (and last year both The Carrie Diari and Star-Crossed had gay/lbian/bisexual ma characters), but queer characters still rema shockgly unr-reprented on The CW.
The cisn — and the later intifitn of other characters, like Nathan Miller (Jarod Joseph), as gay — was simply world-buildg, and solely wh the world of The 100. … Nobody ever classifi anybody, as , ‘She’s a woman lear, ’ or, ‘He’s a gay soldier. Her ath is said to play to the ‘Bury your Gays’ trope, and the executive producer said, “Dpe my reasons, I still wre and produce televisn for the real world where negative and hurtful trop exist.
Badass Gay. Bury Your Gays - Is killed by a stray bullet that was origally meant for Clarke, after they had sex for the first time. Here are the major plats: Lexa’s ath falls to the Dead Lbian Trope, or “Bury Your Gays, ” which is harmful nsirg that many young people who watch The 100 watch bee of s posive portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters.
‘THE 100’ SHOWNNER APOLOGIZ TO FANS FOR NTROVERSY OVER BELOVED GAY CHARACTER’S ATH
” I poted her to the recent study GLAAD did analyzg LGBTQ+ characters on televisn that I lked to my post about bisexual reprentatn on Crazy Ex-Girliend, which stat that of the 59 LGBTQ+ characters on TV last year, 39% were gay men, 36% were lbian, 15% were bi women & 5% were bi men.
In the March 3 episo, “The 100, ” which had touted s mment to qualy LGBTQ storytellg, voked one of TV’s olst gay clich by killg her off mere sends after she nsummated her relatnship wh another woman, Clarke (Eliza Taylor). But all thgs nsired, the blhe manipulatn LGBTQ fans and the show’s willgns to ploy harmful clich about gay characters rema the thgs that rankle most.
If nothg else, shows that the Bury Your Gays trope is alive and well on TV, and fictnal lbian and bisexual women particular have a very small chance of leadg long and productive liv. Rothenberg gave multiple terviews on the topic — Variety clud — and retweeted stori om an array of publitns that praised the show’s reprentatn of gay, lbian and bisexual characters. The Bury Your Gays trope me to a foreont this past televisn season when a multu of LGBTQ characters were killed off shows cludg “The Walkg Dead, ” “Empire” and most notably, “The 100.