Bury Your Gays: Difference between revisions

* Terry Moore's various series often deal with human sexuality in a mature and intelligent fashion, exploring what might force a person to reassess their self-identification and what impact societal pressures and expectations have on human desires, but when ''[[Echo]]'' needs to show its villain beginning to lose his grasp on his sanity and [[Villainous Breakdown|begin to break down]] he, of course, kills his boyfriend to keep him from leaving.

* After writer [[Peter David]] brought Rictor and Shatterstar together, many people guessed that he'd kill one or both of them off, to which he responded that he was aware of this trope and would purposefully avoid it.

* It's suggested that John Reddear from The Tamakis' ''[[Skim]]'' was in love with another boy from his Catholic school and is part of the reason he committed suicide at the start of the story. Unfortunately this sort of happens all too often in real life.

* This is used in the original ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' comic to deconstruct ideas about homosexuality in golden age comics. A lesbian superhero is outed and thrown out of her team, then brutally murdered alongside her lover. The killer was punishing them for their sexual orientation, but it was more that, had she retained her identity and the support of her co-workers, she would have been safe. In an interview, another superhero comments that a number of the other superheroes were understood (within the ranks) to be homosexual and nobody cared so long as they stayed in the closet and weren't caught.