But when their character is reduced solely to this suffering in order to make them a martyr or a moral scapegoat, that piece of media is no longer doing justice to the LGBTQ character or their narrative they've been stripped of their identity in order to be used as a tool. As LGBTQ+ stories are told, there are naturally going to be moments where the characters do suffer and die it is simply a natural part of storytelling. However, similar to the trope of female characters being "fridged," their deaths and suffering are frequently used not to develop their own narrative, but those of the characters - especially the straight, cisgender characters - around them. These deaths often come shortly after the queer character is finally able to confess or act upon their sexuality, giving them a brief moment of happiness before they are extinguished. If LGBTQ+ characters in movies aren't being literally buried, they are being forced through suffering, queer-coded villainization, or buried beneath queer subtext. The "bury your gays" trope has been so named because LGBTQ+ characters are far more likely to die in film and television than their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts.
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