#Arts: There aren’t enough plots in the cemetery for all the Queer characters butchered before their time. The #BuryYourGays trope has claimed countless fictional lives and, without fail, the hashtag will be trending after each untimely passing to mark the occasion. The trope itself had its inception at a time when homophobic legislation backed Queer artists into a corner, leaving them to either kill off their representative characters or not include them at all. Now, at least in Hollywood, the trope serves no noble purpose other than to exploit Queer trauma for viewership and shock value. These stories have become so disrespected that they’re being dragged from our screens entirely. “Bury Your Gays” refers to the trope in which Queer or Queer-coded characters are more likely to meet a gruesome, tragic end than their cishet counterparts. Thus they are treated as more expendable and become punished by their storylines. In the Victorian era, it gave Queer artists the freedom to incorpo...