Did original voltron have gay character
It is always frustrating to see when a display decides to destroy all of the potential it has when it comes to queer representation. Voltron Legendary Defender Season 8 showed how the writers didn’t learn anything after the backlash the animated series received over how Shiro was handled in the previous season. And yes, VLD does not merit any of the gay representation points the writers were clearly aiming for!
I wrote a piece endorse in August about how Voltron Legendary Defender Season 7 decided to expose Shiro as gay and how the writing showed him easily fall into the ‘Sad Gay’ trope. The reveal was met by backlash from the fandom which led to the showrunners writing an open letter.
While fans were understandably disappointed about Shiro’s treatment, some of them were looking forward to the final season of VLD in hopes the showrunners learned something and would give the traits his due.
But then, Voltron Epic Defender Season 8 was made available on Netflix and it was a mess, especially during the last 10 minutes of the finale. Do create sure to read Jamie’s review.
Not only did the show kill Allura for emotional exploitation,
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In my last blog post, I discussed my thoughts on the Voltron: Legendary Defender‘s treatment of Adam, Shiro‘s (ex-)boyfriend. This send is essentially, a part 2 to that one.
Although Katie “Pidge” Holt has been read a transgender, I contradict. Yes, at the start of the show, Pidge is introduced as a boy. But, as we learn preliminary on in the show, she dresses as a lad not as an expression of her gender identity, but to go undercover in the Galaxy Garrison as Pidge Gunderson (a boy) so she can discover out what happened with her father and brother. What’s more, when she reveals her confidential to Team Voltron, she outright says, “I’m a girl.”
I do, however, consider that she is queer coded: “given traits associated with LGBT people without explicitly stating that they are queer”, which “does not necessarily imply that the character actually is queer.”
Of course, there’s a reason Pidge is the way she is. In the authentic show, Voltron: Defender of the Universe, Pidge is male. Probably as a way to raise diversity, they chose to make Pidge a girl. As the youngest member of the team, she is the natura
Bury your Gays: Voltron Edition!
Hi guys me again, so something really fun happened this week that a lot of you already know about. Voltron just debuted it’s first LGBT arc! And it went..
Not well. So since the Voltron Crew and even more so baffling to me an lgbt+ actors who worked on the show
Seem to consider this was a great thought I am going to define the history behind bury your gays and the long reaching implications of it :) Because they were right, this was not the queer content we or I should clarify anyone wanted.
So what is Bury Your Gays? Bury your gays (Or as it’s sometimes called Dead lesbian syndrome) is a trope in media in which LGBT must die and or meet an unhappy ending usually going insane or ending up completely alone and sad. It’s gone as far back as the early reaches of media portrayal of LGBT people but is obviously still alive and kicking today unlike the lgbtq+ characters this trope keeps killing. SO let’s do a tiny math break down taken from a source on wikipedia
“According to Autostraddle, which examined 1,779 scripted U.S. television series from 1976 to 2016, 193 (11%) of them featured lesbian or bisexual female characters, and
Please be warned the following has spoilers for Voltron Legendary Defenders Season 7.
I feel appreciate we have this conversation over and over again as a culture, and that I’m starting to repeat myself.
So often, we contain companies use the appearance of a gay character or a gay couple to drive up hype and then either have it not play an important part or not mention it at all in the story. This is commonly called “queerbaiting” which definitely feels like an accurate name, as these shows, books, and movies long the money homosexual communities are willing to pay for the bare-minimum advocacy but they don’t want the disgust from conservative groups by actually having queer characters and relationships.
There are a lot of notable examples of this, like Dumbledore from the Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts franchise or Le Fou in Disney’s remake of Beauty and the Beast. Often, filmmakers are criticized for telling us the story rather than showing us, but that’s essentially what happens with these characters – we are told that it is enough for us to know they are gay, but we’re not going to actually see them express their sexuality.