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The Gays Of Thrones deserved better

Rewatching game of thrones and the way it handled the high sparrow/homophobia storyline is still really shocking. Especially when it came to cerseis side of it. Loras and the all of the gay men of kingslanding were all rounded up, tortured, converted and even killed.

But the homophobia of cersei isn’t even addressed. In fact, it’s completely brushed aside. As often is the case for LGBT stories in fiction.

To make matters worse, cersei then kills Loras and all the gay men she’s responsible for torturing by blowing up the sept of baelor. And the show even presented it as some triumphant moment, a “Let It Go” moment almost.

And then any chance of justice for the victims, the show killed off the only capable of seeking justice for Loras, Olenna Tyrell.

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There isn’t anything gayer than Danny wearing a Luke Cage Hoodie.

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Game of Thrones & Gay erasure.

With it being LGBT history month, I’d like to remind people of the many stupid things Game of Thrones did. Cersei Lannister gave power to the High Sparrow and his gang of gay bashers, so they could weed out all the gay men in Kingslanding.

They tortured, murdered & imprisoned much of the cities gay population. But the show never punished the Sparrow or Cersei for it, or even stated they were wrong.

And to make things worse, among those the sparrows imprisoned for existing was Loras Tyrell. After being tortured for months in a prison cell, he was forced to “confess” to being gay, and beg for forgiveness.

And after this he was mutilated in front of his family, and then killed by the woman who was responsible for his horrific ordeal. To make things worse, not once did the writers think it best to challenge the homophobic views of the characters. Or to say how violence towards gays is wrong. It just completely glorified the violence as if it were any other fight scene.

And not to mention, they didn’t even acknowledged it even happening. They didn’t mention that Cersei had Loras gay bashed. And didn’t mention that Cersei was homophobic, and that she condoned gaybashing. She was blamed for killing margaery, not for having gay men tortured & executed. In fact, loras was mentioned only once after his death.

He was completely erased from the show as if he never existed. And he was never allowed Justice, essentially reinforcing that Cersei did no wrong. Apart from killing margaery.

So remember that, the biggest show on the planet, that is shown in countries were Homosexuality is still illegal, shown the torture & murder of a gay man without being challenged, condemned & even acknowledged. And eventually forgotten. Congratulations D&D for contributing to the appalling treatment of LGBT people in media.