Hoe of the Dragon episo 5 feeds to the extremely tired and outdated Bury Your Gays trope wh a btal character ath.
Contents:
- GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’
- 'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
- HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER
GAME OF THRON SP-OFF HOE OF THE DRAGON PRAISED FOR SERLY ‘GAY VIB’
* gay of thrones where are my dragons *
The gays of thron, if you of Thron, as 's more wily known, has always had a long history of killg pretty much everyone, y, but when me to LGBTQ+ characters, there was always a homophobic subtext that beme impossible to ignore. Well, y, but there rema specific exampl, even 2022, where the mistreatment and celty that queer people suffer grossly outweighs what happens to their straight of like real life, Hoe of the Dragon, a show where gays n fy all odds and live happily love together, but only for a scene or two, bee straight teasg (queerbag?
This is a fictnal world where homophobia don't have to be a, that don't stop Laenor om tongug his lover Ser Jofey Lonmouth every chance he gets... NetflixJofey, overe wh the gay need to gossip, tells Criston that he's well aware of the knight's relatnship wh Rhaenyra. Kill the gays, by all means, but when the gay qutn is one of the first and only queer people on the entire show, murrg them such a cel, sadistic way rerc harmful, dated trop.
'HOE OF THE DRAGON' FANS ACCE SHOW OF PARTAKG ANTI-GAY TROPE
Why should we feel anythg but rentment for a character whose securi led to such a specifilly homophobic form of vlence? A gay man, if you, and this isn't the first time that the Game of Thron anchise has pulled a stunt like this eher. HBOAnd y, that last sentence refers to yet another disproportnately cel ath for the gays, se you were 'd thk that Hoe of the Dragon would have learned more om the mistak that Game of Thron once ma, yet here we are still havg the same old nversatn aga 2022.
That's not to say all hope is lost, Laenor surviv the outdated trop long enough to bee a fully realised character, there remas some spe to move past all this and embrace queerns beyond flash of peen the brothel or this tired 'Bury Your Gays' trope. The gayt aspect of the first episo was by far the dynamic set up between Rhaenyra and her stepmother Lady Alicent, played by Ey Carey.
HOE OF THE DRAGON INTRODUCED (AND PROMPTLY KILLED) A GAY CHARACTER
“Me watchg Alicent and Rhaenyra teractg when I know the story, Gay is , Gay is hot.