# Bury Your Gays

By Chuck Tingle

Profile: https://hahafiction.com/books/bury-your-gays-102fa585/

Screenwriter Misha has an Oscar nomination and a studio demanding that he kill his television show's lesbian leads. He refuses to follow the algorithm's advice. Then monsters he created for earlier scripts start pursuing him and the people he loves.

## What makes it funny?

Misha reads an animation executive's succession of luxury cars as a very long midlife crisis. The insistence on an in-person meeting is another bad sign: whatever is wrong with a script must be serious if it can't be discussed over Zoom.

### The comedy at work

His sardonic narration keeps puncturing the industry's displays of prestige. Studio calculations about profitable stories and expendable queer characters become a threat Misha has to confront outside the writers' room.

### Try this if…

Film-industry satire shares the story with a creator facing his own monsters. Readers interested in queer representation and the business decisions behind familiar screen tropes have a specific reason to follow Misha.

### Good to know

Graphic horror, homophobia, childhood trauma and profanity are part of the story. Its satire directly addresses commercial pressure to erase queer characters or kill them for an audience response.

## What to expect

- Genre: Horror
- On the shelf: Creature feature
- Kind of humor: Dark comedy · Dry wit · Satire
- Format: Novel
- Length: 320 pages

## A few distinguishing details

- A screenwriter refuses an algorithm's demand for queer deaths
- Horror creations pursue their creator through Hollywood

## Sources & further reading

- Publisher: [Macmillan identifies Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, ISBN 9781250874665, and gives Page Count 320.](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874665/buryyourgays)
- Review: [Bookreporter review](https://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/bury-your-gays)
- Publisher: [Publisher and opening excerpt](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874665/buryyourgays)
- Review: [Publishers Weekly review](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250874658)