While 14% of queer female characters were killed internationally in 2016, by 2018 that number had dropped to only 3% (although still 8.6% in the US). But in some ways, the focus on Bury Your Gays was an identification of a symptom without recognizing the underlying illness: the lesbian unhappy ending problem. Per Autostraddle’s infographic, only 8% of queer female characters on US shows end well.

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