'Hoe of the Dragon' Fally Did Right By Some of Its Gay Characters | Them

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• HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
• WOKE OUTRAGE: LEFTISTS TRIGGERED BY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ KILLG OFF GAY CHARACTER

HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS

Warng: Spoilers for Hoe of the Dragon ’s Hoe of the Dragon may be a show full of giant dragons and spooky propheci, but s cisn to spare not one, but two gay characters seemgly sted for ath somehow feels even more a massive change om Gee R.

I know ’s Game of Thron, but to have our heroe workg to kill the gay hband she says she lov her own way jt for some ct-y schemg? Their unn was always nsired advantageo, though steeped ntroversy — Laenor’s homosexualy was an open secret. 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...

WOKE OUTRAGE: LEFTISTS TRIGGERED BY ‘HOE OF THE DRAGON’ KILLG OFF GAY CHARACTER

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.

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That's not to say all hope is lost, Laenor surviv the outdated trop long enough to bee a fully realised character, there remas some spe to move past all this and embrace queerns beyond flash of peen the brothel or this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. It is wily believed that Rhaenyra’s future children are bastards, born to Ser Harw Strong fily, and not to may meet a few more LGBTQ character 'Hoe of the Dragon, ' as Laenor is a nfirmed gay character om Ice and Fire non, sexualy is pretty fluid the world. Wh Laenor already beg gay, wouldn’t be surprisg if Rhaenyra and Laenor’s sister wanted to explore a siar relatnship.

(CNN) -- "Hoe of the Dragon's" fifth episo is actually signifint for logistil reasons, sentially markg the end of the chapter before the show time jumps ahead, featurg olr versns of some characters and somewhat shufflg the the hour uld generate as much buzz for a btal ath that occurred, vg discsn of old ncerns and wounds about the way that LGBTQ characters are treated -- and more to the pot, killed off -- TV stris ma terms of greater cln have cid wh bate about how those characters are portrayed and the fat that they meet, givg rise to a much-discsed trope known as "Bury Your Gays. " The phrase refers to a history which gay characters have disproportnately died as a plot vice, creatg the imprsn they are more expendable the ey of that, the "Game of Thron" prequel potentially wad to ntroversy wh s most recent episo, subtled "We Light the Way, " which aga monstrated, among other thgs, that Wteros not much good ever happens at weddgs. Knowg that Laenor is gay, Rhaenyra -- havg been remd by her uncle Daemon (Matt Smh) that marriage is merely a polil arrangement -- reassured him that they would sentially live separate liv, allowg him to ntue his relatnship wh Ser Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod).