Longtime TV cric Dan Avery charts the history of gay, queer, and transgenr reprentatn popular Amerin seri om 1971 to today, om Ellen to Pose.
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BURY YOUR GAYS: WHY ‘THE 100,’ ‘WALKG DEAD’ DEATHS ARE PROBLEMATIC (GUT COLUMN)
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But now, fally, The 100 has troduced s first gay character (that we know of). In a media landspe where gay, lbian and bisexual characters are still often fed maly by their sexualy, havg Lexa — one of the show’s strongt, most well-liked characters — sually reveal that she’s queer and then rry on wh her day sends a strong and important msage to young viewers. Several supportg/recurrg gay characters are featured on Supernatural, The Vampire Diari, Jane the Virg, Arrow and The Origals (and last year both The Carrie Diari and Star-Crossed had gay/lbian/bisexual ma characters), but queer characters still rema shockgly unr-reprented on The CW.
The cisn — and the later intifitn of other characters, like Nathan Miller (Jarod Joseph), as gay — was simply world-buildg, and solely wh the world of The 100. … Nobody ever classifi anybody, as , ‘She’s a woman lear, ’ or, ‘He’s a gay soldier. Bryan is a Gay character om The 100.
The ath of Commanr Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) at the hands of her send--mand T (Neil Sandilands) after he attempted to kill her lover Clarke (Eliza Taylor) was wily rid as yet another stance of a TV seri treatg gay and bisexual female characters as expendable. I believe eight gay characters have been killed on TV this year. “There is somethg lled the lbian ath trope which has ep roots homophobia.