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- "SO YEAH, YOU'RE GAY." *ENTER SANDMAN BEGS*
- SO YEA, YOURE GAY *ENTER SANDMAN*
- OH HEY, YOU'RE JT MAD 'E I'LL BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHG WH MY FUCK' GUAR HANDS THAT YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, KID. SO YEAH, YOU'RE GAY. *SHTILY PLAYS ENTER SANDMAN*
"SO YEAH, YOU'RE GAY." *ENTER SANDMAN BEGS*
) 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.
There were low-key elements of homophobia episo five, however, as Bette – who is well-aware of Judy’s sexualy – tri to fd her a romantic match wh a man nervoly wag for a job terview the der. But, as we saw om the fal moments, was more likely a se of ternalised homophobia as the two women proceed to share several passnate kiss unr the thrall of David Thewlis’ strangely sympathetic villa John Dee.
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. At the time, I remember gettg a very gmpy letter om the “Concerned Mothers of Ameri”, rmg that due to the number of gay characters Sandman they would be boyttg and we had to repent.
SO YEA, YOURE GAY *ENTER SANDMAN*
“When I was wrg —and today—I had gay iends and I had trans iends”, Gaiman ntu, “I wanted to see them reprented the ics that I was wrg and felt to me like if I wrote ics and left them out, then I wouldn’t be reprentg my world, or the world that I was , or the world I was perceivg accurately, bravely, or tly. A number of people the wrers rooms for both seasons one—and we’ve started talkg about season two—are nonbary, and gay, and lbian, and bisexual, and trans.