'Vampire Diaries' Season 7 Spoilers: Will Kat Graham/Bonnie Bennett Bring Back "Bisexuality?"
Kat Graham, who portrays the CW character of Bonnie Bennett in The Vampire Diaries, has recently shared her thoughts about making her character bisexual in the latest season 7. Graham said that there is a possibility of Bonnie pairing with new female cast of the show because of her growing closeness to Nora, played by Scarlett Byrne, who came out as lesbian.
The show killed its two major lesbian characters Nora and Mary Louise right after the campaign #BuryYourGays started making news and gained momentum. The two characters that represented LGBT community were shown killing themselves while trying to destroy the Phoenix dagger in an episode. However, their deaths immediately saw backlash from viewers who were annoyed about this partial behavior.
Bennett is now aimed to fill the void caused by the show and to cool off the angry fans that have waged war on Twitter after the characters' deaths with the Twitter hashtag #LGBTFansDeserveBetter, Mirror UK reported.
The changes in the sexuality of Bonnie Bennett has been explored in earlier episodes in The Vampire Diaries season 7, since she has been shown growing fondness over Nora. According to CDA News, Graham's character had been passing possible hints with her changed sexual orientation. With all major bisexual characters being killed, Graham bringing back the bisexuality shows her character evolving and depicting other shades of her love life.
Graham is all set to bring her transformed character to life with depth, since she always desired of playing a three-dimensional character. She always wished to explore her character Bonnie more whetherby being straight or bisexual. Until the show demands it. the series is infamous for killing its bisexual characters.
In the past seasons, The Vampire Diaries killed off a gay witch named Luke. The show was reportedly slammed openly and fans took their outrage to social media against them for killing show's hit homosexual pair Nora and Mary Louise.