Author: Elena Selthun

“Unbury Your Gays”: Queer Phantoms in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gideon the Ninth

At its root, the “Bury Your Gays” trope is simple: in a work with an overt or implied same-sex couple, by the end of the story at least one of the lovers “must die or otherwise be destroyed” (Hulan 17). Today, it is often used in film for shock value, as seen with Tara’s death