How ‘Bury Your Gays’ Punishes Expressions of Queerness
From Perspectives on Pop Culture - December 9, 2021
Here’s an excerpt from an older article I wrote in 2021. The link to the full article is at the bottom!
If you are reading this, you probably hate the “Bury Your Gays” trope, but you MIGHT think that all instances of this are made equal.
They aren’t.
Don’t get me wrong. I hate all instances of it and find it annoying as fuck, but there’s bury your gays, and then there’s bury your gays. If you know what I mean.
Obviously, you don’t know what I mean, which is why I’m writing this. Alright, let me explain. First, for those of you that stumbled here from some other area of POPC and don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, let’s define the “bury your gays” trope.