The entertainment industry has always had an uncanny relationship with LGBTQIA+ characters, from making them our “Gay Best Friend,” to being the “Beard” for them, and it seems that now we’re full on slaughtering them.
Across space, through the years, in every genre imaginable, gays have toppled everywhere.
As in, with the recent trending of boycotting #BuryYourGays, the pattern of denying queer characters their happy ending has become prevalent and more obvious in television culture.
“#BuryYourGays” is television’s most prevailing, problematic, common trope in terms of the representation of queer characters. The trope, similar to its predecessor the “Dead Lesbian Syndrome,” whereby queer (specifically bisexual and lesbian) characters either …show more content…
Yes, killing off a character to develop the plot or another character’s arc might be justifiable, but it becomes discrimination when it is constantly the queer characters being killed – in absurd ways too.
Once viewers noticed the pattern, they dug deeper into this trope.
“The Walking Dead” killed off one of its very few queer characters; Denise, a lesbian nurse that resides in Alexandria. And guess what? They happen to target her – quite literally, with an arrow in her head, just as she learns to combat her anxiety and is in a happy relationship with her girlfriend.
O no! A zombie-centred show killed off a character! How terrible! – Yes, it might seem redundant to argue that shows that centres around killing off a character every second episode is wrong in killing off another character. However, the argument is turned around when fans find that Denise’s death was in substitute killed in place of a straight male, Abraham like he was supposed to in the comics.
Thanks – kill one of the only 4 characters who was an inkling of queer representation in “The Walking
Across space, through the years, in every genre imaginable, gays have toppled everywhere.
As in, with the recent trending of boycotting #BuryYourGays, the pattern of denying queer characters their happy ending has become prevalent and more obvious in television culture.
“#BuryYourGays” is television’s most prevailing, problematic, common trope in terms of the representation of queer characters. The trope, similar to its predecessor the “Dead Lesbian Syndrome,” whereby queer (specifically bisexual and lesbian) characters either …show more content…
Yes, killing off a character to develop the plot or another character’s arc might be justifiable, but it becomes discrimination when it is constantly the queer characters being killed – in absurd ways too.
Once viewers noticed the pattern, they dug deeper into this trope.
“The Walking Dead” killed off one of its very few queer characters; Denise, a lesbian nurse that resides in Alexandria. And guess what? They happen to target her – quite literally, with an arrow in her head, just as she learns to combat her anxiety and is in a happy relationship with her girlfriend.
O no! A zombie-centred show killed off a character! How terrible! – Yes, it might seem redundant to argue that shows that centres around killing off a character every second episode is wrong in killing off another character. However, the argument is turned around when fans find that Denise’s death was in substitute killed in place of a straight male, Abraham like he was supposed to in the comics.
Thanks – kill one of the only 4 characters who was an inkling of queer representation in “The Walking