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Watch Now: Pride Today. 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.

Latest Stories. (And, tbh, Queer Twitter will need it.) As created by the openly bisexual Mike White, The White Lotus is not afraid to embrace camp or deploy bottoming jokes when you least expect it. Be sure to follow Out on your favorite social platform.

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.

Though we can acknowledge - and appreciate - the lotus 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.

She didn't know those gays, after all, and neither did the audience. If there were some sort of competition, who would be crowned the messiest queer across all three seasons of The White Lotus? Email Newsletter Subscribe Subscriber Services. The gays weren't rich either - they had nothing but an old and decaying villa to use as a facade for wealth.

All Rights reserved. Oh my Oz! Here's all the tea October 09 AM. But who among Mike White’s gallery of rogue, white gays reigns supreme? 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.

When Tanya asked, "Do you know these gays? Privacy Policy Terms of Use. Out Newsletter. See on Instagram. It’s also pulling its weight in terms of providing queer representation on TV, which. We gay 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.

Sign up today for our free newsletter. To answer this question, social media manager Ana Osorno and I spent an afternoon in the Them laboratory devising an infallible, three. 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.

Bernardo Sim is the deputy editor of Out. You can follow Bernardo Sim on Instagram. After two seasons, The White Lotus has generated enough queer memes to fuel Queer Twitter for at least the next four years. 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. Search form Search. And how could such a thing even be determined scientifically?

In comes The White Lotus season two's Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his gaggle of rich, older European gays. Through the artifice of being Tanya's GBFs, they lied to her, made fun of her, sequestered her, and nearly killed her themselves. Quentin's "nephew" Jack turned out to be his hired escort.