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OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
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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.
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.
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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. 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. And we all know how that 's no “gay” Game of Thron, bee this is a world of strict, heteronormative tradnalism.
Thron' treatment of gays has been a long-standg pot of Vulture's Brian Moylan wrote of the Game of Thron season six fale back 2016, “gay characters on Game of Thron have met pecially bloody and ignom aths”. The manner of their aths is appropriate for the anchise's unrelentgly bleak tone, but 's troublg that gay characters are still relegated to vic monstrative of 's queerns prumably isn't gog anywhere, so his characterisatn has plenty of room to breathe.