The Walkg Dead Producer Explas Why Two Gay Characters Were Killed Off • Instct Magaze

Contents:

• 'BURY YOUR GAYS': WHY ARE SO MANY LBIAN TV CHARACTERS DYG OFF?
• DOCTOR WHO KILLS OFF GAY CHARACTER WH RERD 30 SENDS OF HIS INTRO
• THE WALKG DEAD PRODUCER EXPLAS WHY TWO GAY CHARACTERS WERE KILLED OFF
• IS OFFENSIVE TO KILL MY GAY CHARACTER AT THE END OF MY BOOK?
• #BURYYOURGAYS: 27 LGBT TV CHARACTERS KILLED OFF 2016, FROM ‘EMPIRE’ TO ‘GAME OF THRON’ (PHOTOS)

'BURY YOUR GAYS': WHY ARE SO MANY LBIAN TV CHARACTERS DYG OFF?

As the "Bury Your Gays" trope ntu unabated to the 21st-century, seems a cent time to look back at the most untimely and unfivable sualti of drama on the small screen.

DOCTOR WHO KILLS OFF GAY CHARACTER WH RERD 30 SENDS OF HIS INTRO

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THE WALKG DEAD PRODUCER EXPLAS WHY TWO GAY CHARACTERS WERE KILLED OFF

The "Bury Your Gays" trope has bee a part of cultual knowledge recent years, but not everyone has gotten the memo. The trope also extends to films, and gay and bi men. Shows like Killg Eve, and most recently, Hoe of the Dragon, are still btally and needlsly killg off their queer characters stead of lettg them be are 15 of the most egreg -- and btal -- recent exampl of the Bury Your Gays trope.

Hoe of the Dragon didn't blaze this trail for GOT buryg s gays. All throughout s n, fans were beggg for a gay uple to be troduced on Netflix's Voltron.

IS OFFENSIVE TO KILL MY GAY CHARACTER AT THE END OF MY BOOK?

And jt like that, the show's only gay uple was gone. It: Chapter Two's gay bashg scene. Y, It is a horror movie about a murro embodiment of evil, but that don't mean that viewers were ready to see an extremely graphic gay-bashg scene to open the film up.

At the begng of the movie we travel to Derry's past, where we see two gay men on a date get terpted by a group of homophobic bigots, beat up, and thrown to the 's an uncserly upsettg scene that followed a great first movie. This year, the Halloween anchise brought s first gay characters s 43-year history. Big John and Ltle John were troduced Halloween Kills as jt an average gay uple, who unfortunately, lived the hoe that Michael Meyers grew up .

In the latt episo, we fally got to see the show's lone gay male character, Laenor Valaryon, get a lover. The biggt outcry me via The CW's The 100, which killed off a proment gay woman a prsgly clichéd way, and Fox's Sleepy Hollow, which dismissed s protagonist, played by Nile Beharie, amid fierce mors that Beharie had had enough and asked to be wrten out and her superrs were none too sad to see her go.

#BURYYOURGAYS: 27 LGBT TV CHARACTERS KILLED OFF 2016, FROM ‘EMPIRE’ TO ‘GAME OF THRON’ (PHOTOS)

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