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Perhaps bee the language to scribe and fe multiple sexual orientatns don’t exist Wteros, his fay speaks only phemism, but Laenor is gay and his lover is Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod).

And while n be argued that most characters the seri experience some form of horrific vlence, queer characters’ aths are often also marked by homophobic subtext that n’t be ignored. He is arrted by a relig sect for the crime of beg gay and havg been timate wh other men. And for those who will try to pat the homophobia as some sort of “historil accuracy, ” “Hoe of the Dragon” is a fictnal show set a world wh dragons and ice queer women of “Game of Thron” fared slightly better.

)For those who hoped that Laenor’s troductn might signal that “Hoe of the Dragon” had learned the same lsons about LGBTQ reprentatn as has Daenerys’ arc, Lonmouth’s ath is particularly troublg bee of the way evok the homophobic “panic” that has long been ed to try to fend vlence agast queer people.

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Actor Kristian Nairn – aka Hodor on “Game of Thron” – was never the closet, but he wants to “stand up and be unted” as a gay man. * gay games of throne *

But the sequence still amounts to a man, after beg approached by a gay man who knows his secret, beatg the gay man to the first episo, the prequel seri has been clear that the misogyny of the Realm is a mark agast .

It’s past time the anchise do the same wh homophobia. Of urse, one thg to keep md is that our morn lexin of sexualy wouldn't have been translated to the world of Game of Thron, so intifitn via labels like "gay" and "lbian" wasn't available to the characters.

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.

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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.

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.

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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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To put simply, I’m not so sure this show is a great iend of the gays. The first gay character we met the world of Game of Thron was Renly Baratheon, brother of Kg Robert Baratheon.

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Olyvar is a gay character om Game of Thron. Olyvar is a male prostu workg for one of the most famo brothel managers of Wteros, Petyr Baelish. He exclively ters to male patrons, and stat that many of them are om the high nobily of Wteros. He is asked by Baelish to... * gay games of throne *

Sce homosexualy isn’t wily accepted the society Mart has created, Loras is closeted and fds himself engaged - agast his will - to several female characters, cludg the betiful, young (though at the time, hopelsly naïve) Sansa Stark and the cel, thls Cersei Lannister (who is closeted herself, although her secret lover is actually her tw brother).

The days, Loras is prison, held by a relig cult for the crime of beg gay. While s three gay or bisexual men have all found some way to be killed or punished ways that almost seem remiscent of the 1950s, the women of Game of Thron show absolutely no tert tradnal genr rol.

Weiss do not shy away om sexual taboos like ct, and they have clud a few homosexual relatnships wh their predomantly heteronormative world. However, their treatment of one of the most proment among the few relatnships ultimately falls to the trope known as “bury your gays, ” where homosexual characters are quickly killed off and removed om a seri predomantly focsed on heterosexual characters.

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The homosexual relatnship between Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell did not ultimately transcend the social stigma wh the world of Game of Thron as fans might have hoped, as Renly was killed only a season after their relatnship began.

After Renly’s ath, the suatn did not improve for Loras, who is exposed as homosexual to the High Sparrow, imprisoned, and tortured for his “ss. While Game of Thron certaly perpetuated the “bury your gays” trope also serv as an example of the how wrers are nscly workg to subvert the trope by givg the last openly bisexual character, Yara Greyjoy, addnal plot armor where seems she is able to slip out of ath’s jaws more than once. This is ia is lled “prerve your gays” and will be explored along wh “bury your gays” trope the ntext of Game of Thron.

“Bury Your Gays” fed. The “bury your gays” trope is a cliche Hollywood films and televisn alike where LGBT characters seem to be more expendible than their straight peers and typilly do not fd their “happily ever after” at the story’s ncln. Acrdg to Kelsey Cameron, “‘bury your gays’ is the narrative arc where queer charters die, often vlently, service of someone else’s character velopment.

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” However, this is not to say that gay characters should not be exempt om tragedy, but stead is about there beg a diverse ensemble of charters who are reprentative of the real world.

Bonnie Dow explas how, “homosexual characters are rarely shown their own muni, hom or same-sex romantic relatnships, but are picted terms of their place the liv of heterosexuals. In HBO’s Game of Thron the gay relatnship between Loras and Renly is not only hted at or merely implied, but bluntly unfolds the bedroom. In a show that ran for 8 seasons, is a shame that one of the only gay plotl the seri was extguished only the send season.

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