“Ozark” ntu a trend of killg off s gay characters for no other reason than shallow drama.
Contents:
- 2 MORE SUALTI TO ADD TO THE “BURY YOUR GAYS” TROPE THE GRIM SERI ‘OZARK’
- MEET OZARK’S SHAME-FREE (AND TOTALLY CORPT) GAY FED
- MEET OZARK’S SHAME-FREE (AND TOTALLY CORPT) GAY FED
- COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
2 MORE SUALTI TO ADD TO THE “BURY YOUR GAYS” TROPE THE GRIM SERI ‘OZARK’
“Ozark” ntu a trend of killg off s gay characters for no other reason than shallow drama.
LGBTQ reprentatn is movg past the “sassy, sexls bt iend” trope to give tense, plex gay characters wh flhed out relatnships.
Related: Bury Your Gays: 109 Dead Gay and Bisexual Male TV Characters, And How They Died. The show allows the viewer to form an opn of the two characters before revealg they are gay.
MEET OZARK’S SHAME-FREE (AND TOTALLY CORPT) GAY FED
In actualy, he is a closeted gay man tryg to supprs his sexualy. This marks the first gay character killed off on the show. Roy Petty’s gay, and Roy Petty hat himself, but Roy Petty don’t hate himself bee he’s gay.
After all, most of them meet terrible ends that are rooted anti-gay hatred: Consir Sal Mad Men, who los his job and his fay, or Vo Spatafore The Sopranos, who gets gored by that pool cue. Homophobia even affects powerful gay antihero like Deran on Animal Kgdom.
MEET OZARK’S SHAME-FREE (AND TOTALLY CORPT) GAY FED
He equently stggl wh self-loathg, and the first season, he asslts his boyiend an attempt to prove he don’t like gay sex. He didn’t have massively ternalized homophobia.
Harner, who is openly gay himself, realized Petty was a different type of character while he was shootg a gay sex scene. Did anyone else fd the subplot wh the gay ps kd of crgey. Not bee was about a gay relatnship or anythg, but jt felt forced.
Like I jt image a wrer pchg the ia of shootg a scene where a gay guy gets a blowjob while cricizg the war on terror and dg abe. The ia of a p scg his way to gettg rmatn was clever but the whole thg about the vlent homophobe beg secretly gay is really cliche at this pot. Keh Gaynor...
COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
Jam Tracy me out as gay to his police joed the Englewood Cliffs police partment 2002, but 10 years passed before he revealed his secret. “I was gettg lls om gay police officers all over the untry sayg thgs like ‘Hey, thanks for the publicy and gettg out there', ” he said.
”It's not always easy to be a p who is gay, but each step forward helps pave the way for a better future work environment, Tracy ntu below galleryWell before Tracy ever put on the police uniform, Wtwood police Officer Larry Schwartz helped pave the way for gay officers. Schwartz remends other gay ps get volved and take the time to fd peers and seek help if there are road for officers who e out as gay to lleagu has not always been smooth.
“It’s part of the tnal program bee people might not nsir themselv homophobic or racist, but have unrlyg patterns that are, ” Tracy said.