Actor Kristian Nairn – aka Hodor on “Game of Thron” – was never the closet, but he wants to “stand up and be unted” as a gay man.
Contents:
- ‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
- THE GAME OF THRON CAST AS IMAGED BY ‘GAY OF THRON’
- OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
- HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
‘GAME OF THRON’ ACTOR OUT AS GAY
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THE GAME OF THRON CAST AS IMAGED BY ‘GAY OF THRON’
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As a stark ntrast of gay reprentatn to Loras, Renly serv to portray a very different LGBTQ+ experience for the viewers to potentially relate to on Game on Thron. This show will be screened untri where homosexualy is illegal, where women’s sexual choic are ntrolled and where trans inti are vlently subjugated. If ed those men were gay had a signifint effect upon history and has a somewhat signifint effect on the events my book … I wanted to clu the full range of humany, cludg the full range of sexual preferenc and sex is an important part of the books.
OP-ED: THE GAYS OF THRON
The first big gay relatnship is between Renly Baratheon and Loras Tyrell. Perhaps “gay for pay” exists Wteros too?
And the are homophobic tim. Vto Rso, the gay film cric, noted a trend some film reprentatn where the gay man is prented only to meet an unhappy, punishg and often fatal endg.
But world where Bnei has jt joed the list of pariah natns that have the ath penalty for male homosexualy, a queer character’s murr might reasonably be argued to rry more ntemporary weight and ronance. And the list of gay men that the show has killed weighs heavy.
HOE OF THE DRAGON FALLY DID RIGHT BY SOME OF ITS GAY CHARACTERS
Perhaps bee the language to scribe and fe multiple sexual orientatns don’t exist Wteros, his fay speaks only phemism, but Laenor is gay and his lover is Jofey Lonmouth (Solly McLeod). And while n be argued that most characters the seri experience some form of horrific vlence, queer characters’ aths are often also marked by homophobic subtext that n’t be ignored. He is arrted by a relig sect for the crime of beg gay and havg been timate wh other men.
And for those who will try to pat the homophobia as some sort of “historil accuracy, ” “Hoe of the Dragon” is a fictnal show set a world wh dragons and ice queer women of “Game of Thron” fared slightly better.
)For those who hoped that Laenor’s troductn might signal that “Hoe of the Dragon” had learned the same lsons about LGBTQ reprentatn as has Daenerys’ arc, Lonmouth’s ath is particularly troublg bee of the way evok the homophobic “panic” that has long been ed to try to fend vlence agast queer people.