Geth Anthony looks back on his gay 'Game Of Thron' role - Attu

Contents:

• BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON
• ‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
• GETH ANTHONY LOOKS BACK ON HIS GAY ‘GAME OF THRON’ ROLE

BURY YOUR GAYS: A LOOK AT HBO’S GAME OF THRON

This show will be screened untri where homosexualy is illegal, where women’s sexual choic are ntrolled and where trans inti are vlently subjugated. If ed those men were gay had a signifint effect upon history and has a somewhat signifint effect on the events my book … I wanted to clu the full range of humany, cludg the full range of sexual preferenc and sex is an important part of the books.

The first big gay relatnship is between Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell. Perhaps “gay for pay” exists Wteros too?

‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY

And the are homophobic tim. Vto Rso, the gay film cric, noted a trend some film reprentatn where the gay man is prented only to meet an unhappy, punishg and often fatal endg. But world where Bnei has jt joed the list of pariah natns that have the ath penalty for male homosexualy, a queer character’s murr might reasonably be argued to rry more ntemporary weight and ronance.

And the list of gay men that the show has killed weighs heavy. 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.

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. 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.

GETH ANTHONY LOOKS BACK ON HIS GAY ‘GAME OF THRON’ ROLE

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. ” 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.