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THE SANDMAN CREATOR NEIL GAIMAN SAYS SHOW’S CRICS ‘DON’T LIKE GAY OR BLACK PEOPLE’
) rmed him that “due to the number of gay characters The Sandman they would be boyttg and we had to repent. ” The thor add: “When I was wrg , and today, I had gay iends, I had trans iends. Fortunately, The Sandman’s pictn of queerns is very progrsive, prentg a world whout homophobia, biphobia or transphobia – siar ve to recent Netflix productns such as the horror romance seri The Hntg of Bly Manor and vampire romance First Kill (which was jt ntroversially axed, not over ), as well as Dan Levy’s ld Canadian edy Scht’s Creek.
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The Corthian fails to nform to harmful long-nng trop such as the “Sissy Villa” and the “Depraved Homosexual”, where evil characters are fed by their flamboyance and femy – suatg that queerns is herently bad and directly rponsible for their nefar acts the procs. Wh the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope alive and well (still ragg over Killg Eve), viewers expected Rose’s iend to befall a siar fate to his other victims – whout ey and, well, ad. hold on there are gays the sandman?