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Editor's note: this post contains major spoilers for the season two finale of HBO's The White Lotus. Please, these gays are trying to murder me! Sign up today for our free newsletter.

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Email Newsletter Subscribe Subscriber Services. Latest Stories. They present as the stereotypical gay best friends GBFs to Tanya that are there to save her vacation, spill some hot tea, and help her turn the beat around. She didn't know those gays, after all, and neither did the audience.

"These gays, they're trying to murder me." For many decades in Hollywood, characters were queer. The phrase has become a sarcastic expression and image macro used by fans and the LGBTQ+ community on Twitter. Though we can acknowledge - and appreciate - the course correction of not always featuring queer characters who will only lie, cheat, murder, and steal, it is equally jarring to watch so many movies and TV shows now being inclusive of queer people who are only portrayed as perfect little angels, heart-wrenching tragic figures, or Mary Sue archetypes.

Privacy Policy Terms of Use. Out Newsletter. Through the artifice of being Tanya's GBFs, they lied to her, made fun of her, sequestered her, and nearly killed her themselves. No, The White Lotus isn't the only mainstream TV show with villainous gays, but it does feel like the series made it a point to highlight what audiences have come to expect from these characters only to then reveal much darker sides to them over the course of the season.

See on Instagram. Quentin's "nephew" Jack turned out to be his hired escort. About "These Gays, They’re Trying To Murder Me" is a phrase said by Tanya in the finale of the HBO show The White Lotus. Watch Now: Pride Today.

By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. But that expansion of queer representation came with an incredibly heavy-handed course correction as to how these characters were portrayed in movies and TV shows.

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When Tanya asked, "Do you know these gays? All Rights reserved. We hope more movies and TV shows give us that full breadth of gay representation, from the best people in the world to some of the absolute worst -- just like our straight counterparts.

At first glance, this is a group of wealthy, fun-loving tourists who befriend Tanya Jennifer Coolidge and take her on all sorts of adventures. The gays weren't rich either - they had nothing but an old and decaying villa to use as a facade for wealth.

- Tanya The White Lotus S2 E7 Joshua Samuels K subscribers Subscribe. Search form Search. Along with Tanya, many viewers convinced themselves that this was a Queer Eye -esque group of fabulous men who were about to give Tanya the makeover of her life The endgame of The White Lotus is a perfect example of how characters can be villainous and gay - not villains because they're gay, but villains who also happen to be gay.

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