There's a tragic trend making a major comeback on television lately that has the LGBT community angry, upset, and afraid. And now it has infected the best show we have: "Orange is the New Black."

Spoilers ahead, it's time to talk about #BuryYourGays.

Bury Your Gays is a trope by which gay characters just can't catch a goddamned break. It has been around forever and never gets easier to watch from the perspective of an LGBT individual. You've probably seen it before: Tara from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Michael Corrigan and Rachel Posner from "House of Cards," Wendy Ross-Hogarth from "Jessica Jones," Alisha from "The Walking Dead," Charlie from "Supernatural," Sam from "Scream Queens, "Loras Tyrell from "Game of Thrones..."

Here are a few more lists in case you still need to be convinced that this is a serious problem:

Autostraddle's All 160 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters on TV, and How They Died.

Queerty's 109 Dead Gay and Bisexual Male TV Characters, and How They Died.

And here's the TV Tropes page again, which lists all gay characters who have been killed, nearly killed, or subverted the trope: Bury Your Gays.

But what has the LGBT community so up in arms lately over #BuryYourGays is the recent onslaught of gay female characters dying on TV. Feb. 22, 2016, sparked a monthlong death fest of gay women on television when The CW's "Jane the Virgin" murdered Rose, followed by The CW's "The 100" murder of Lexa. Then came the death of Kira on Syfy's "The Magicians" and, finally, AMC's "The Walking Dead"'s killing of Denise.

Since the spring's month of misogynistic murder, we've already lost Mimi Whiteman and Camilla Marks on FOX's "Empire," as well as Mary Louise and Nora on The CW's "The Vampire Diaries."

But the carnage didn't start there. Back in the '70s, when the trope supposedly began with the soap opera "Executive Suite"'s killing of Julie, Bury Your Gays was used as a way to sneak gay characters onto television so long as they were either visibly punished or vilified for their gayness. Later, gay characters were used on television as archetypes of evil, dirty AIDS victims who eventually died of their illnesses. It was used to send a very specific messages to viewers: Gay lives are deservedly punishable.

Nowadays, when LGBT characters are flippantly murdered, forced to die for their sexualities, or introduced as the only LGBT character on their show and then killed off, the LGBT community (especially the nonwhite LGBT community) is harshly reminded that our lives are worthless to showrunners, advertisers, and audiences.

As cultural ideology has begun to shift towards LGBT acceptance, LGBT fictional characters have slowly begun to make their way to television. But this harmful trope of the '70s has ruthlessly and clandestinely snaked its way back into this so-called LGBT representation. Openly gay Ryan Murphy's iconic anthology series, "American Horror Story," culturally praised for its large number of LGBT characters, is quite honestly addicted to tragically murdering those same characters! In fact, plenty of shows typically praised for their LGBT representations are actually fairly sick of the Bury Your Gays disease...

Like "Orange is the New Black," for example.

"Orange is the New Black" has had a beautiful, glistening, ethereal cast of female LGBT characters over the years, too many to name, all so gorgeously written. This show is a beacon of hope and light for proper LGBT representation. And while it's no stranger to killing off some of these incredible female gay characters (I will always love you, Tricia) it typically handles death in a socially and culturally responsible way.

But not Season 4, apparently.

Season 4 of "OITNB" decided to tackle myriad current social issues, including #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality, coping with sexual assault, systematic racism, and even Bury Your Gays.

But I don't understand how anyone could believe that the proper response to Bury Your Gays is to Bury Yet Another Gay.

Poussey Washington was an unapologetic black lesbian who, over the course of the four years of the show, arguably committed the least sins of the entire cast. She led a nearly flawless season and assumed the role of the optimistic pacifist in the face of prison chaos. Her biggest shortcoming of the season was telling her girlfriend that a peaceful protest wouldn't work. Long story short, Poussey Washington is and has always been the angel of Litchfield. She is and has always been and always will be an incredible example of shameless and proud lesbian representation.

So why the f*ck did she have to get held down by a man twice her size and flippantly murdered?

Why did it have to be Poussey?

Why did it have to be a black lesbian who never once did anything to provoke violence?

Why did it have to happen to her only seconds after mouthing "I'm sorry, baby," to her girlfriend?

Why did it have to happen less than a month after the slaughter of 50 LGBT individuals in Orlando, Fla.?

It's careless, it's sloppy, and it reminds the LGBT community watching that our lives can be taken for shock value.

I understand "OITNB"'s desire to realistically portray the staggering number of black lives taken by authority figures, but taking Poussey in particular away from the LGBT community has historical and cultural implications which the "OITNB" showrunners clearly did not consider.

Or, maybe the showrunners did consider the implications of Bury Your Gays and decided that the best way to defeat the trope was to...perpetuate the trope. It doesn't make sense. It hurts.

For whatever reason, "OITNB" has left another serious wound on an already-scarred community. I believe it was ill timed, ill executed, and ill meaning. I will not accept Poussey's death as any sort of bigger-than-it-seems symbolism. I will not accept her death as simply-telling-it-like-it-is. I will not accept one more fictional LGBT funeral.

Stop burying us.