And, if you've experienced the heartbreak of any of these deaths, you'll be aware of Bury your gays - the trope that has plagued TV for years, involving killing off of LGBTQ+ characters in media, particularly immediately after finding happiness. While it's a trope that most often refers to lesbian characters, gay men and bisexual characters certainly haven't escaped it either.
In recent years though, there has been more and more awareness of the trope, and what it means for representation.
For instance, Dan Levy, co-creator of Schitt's Creek, previously told E!: "I think for a long time I was watching nothing but tragedy befall queer characters on television, and the idea of creating a world where, in this particular case two men were falling in love with absolutely no push back, and to be able to depict how much joy that can bring, not just to the characters who are falling in love, but to the community itself who gets to watch it, was important."
In case you've been living under a rock, the wildly popular and incredibly sexy drama follows the high stakes romance between between two rival ice hockey players, Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov. Along the way, we also meet Scott Hunter and his beau Kip - and somewhere around episode 3, I was feeling pretty certain this was far too many gay characters for them to all make it out alive and well.
After Shane's accident on the ice in episode 5, I was convinced the end was nigh and was preparing to subject my household to levels of weeping not seen since I watched the opening scenes of Disney Pixar's Up. When that didn't happen, I became convinced it was Scott and Kip who would face some kind of tragedy - at the very least, a devastating break up.
View Green Video on the source websiteObviously Heated Rivalry isn't the only series to have given us a happy ending for its LGBTQ+ characters. In recent years, we've seen the likes of Young Royals, Schitt's Creek and Heartstopper radiating LGBTQ+ joy.
For me, and I'm sure for a lot of other viewers, that's incredibly welcome. It feels like, in many ways, the real world is getting increasingly hostile towards the LGBTQ+ community, and I don't really want to see this reflected in entertainment. I'd rather an escape from it.
But I think it does signal that writers are taking more and more care with their gay characters, swapping cheap and shocking twists for well thought out storylines.
Crucially, we can finally be rid of the idea that queer lives are somehow less valuable, or that queer characters exist to serve the storylines of heterosexual characters, and focus on the story without being blindsided by an unnecessary, unfeeling death at every turn.
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