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• THE WALKG DEAD STAR SAYS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN AARON AND J HAPPENED OFFSCREEN
• 'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY
• GAY

THE WALKG DEAD STAR SAYS GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN AARON AND J HAPPENED OFFSCREEN

At night he talks wh Tara about Eugene and Rosa, and reveals that he knows Tara is gay, judgg by the way she "looked down Rosa's shirt while she served her dner".

This sparked massive outcry om the The 100 fandom who acced the show’s wrers of fallg back a well-tablished trope known as “Bury Your Gays” or “Dead Lbian Syndrome.

And while beg a lbian don’t mean a character should be bulletproof—anyone and everyone should be ready to die on The Walkg Dead—the wrers did ci to swap the gay character for the straight, whe alpha male. Payne said last year that he saw no reason why his on-screen J wouldn't be gay, as he is the ics, and tonight's episo "The Other Si, " he officially beme the show's third major gay character. Her girliend Denise (Merrt Wever) was ntroversially killed off what beme part of a troublg TV trend last year; an unwele rurgence of the "Bury Your Gays" trope which me to a head wh a profoundly ntroversial storyle on The CW's The 100.

'THE WALKG DEAD' JT CONFIRMED THAT J IS GAY

But the fact that this is now a show wh three gay characters s ma st matters.

Given his stat as a badass fan favore, his signifint role the ics and the bonds he's veloped wh several of the show's ma characters, the now-openly-gay J has the potential to bee genuely inic a way Aaron and Tara are not. Gay characters on televisn are no longer unmon, but gay male hero on actn-led genre shows are, and the fact that The Walkg Dead has an unually bipartisan fan base wh a strong Republin ntgent mak s sexual diversy all the more charged.

"In my opn there should be more awome gay people fictn bee there are plenty of awome gay people real life, " Robert Kirkman, who created The Walkg Dead ics and is an EP on the show, said last year.

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