On this show, “kill your anything” is probably up for grabs. My decision about making characters straight or gay really is much more dependent on the way that people in my life are. I don’t try to think that much beyond that. I wasn’t thinking of the sexual orientation of people as the first thing you find out about them; their identity is their identity in full. That’s just who they are. I tried to create characters and then have them be in a position to have logical fates for those characters. Gilead and The Handmaid’s Tale operates outside those rules because in that world, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. So the “kill your gays” policy is institutional in the series. You’re operating on a different lane than that conversation.
— Hollywood Reporter, Showrunner Bruce Miller, talking about the Bury Your Gays trope.
April 26, 2017