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“Characters that were unknown to most of the general public — like Starman, say, or Maggie Sawyer, or Green-Lantern-no-not-the-active-one-wh-a-seri-but-the-olr-one-nobody-outsi-of-ics-fandom-knows-by-name — uld be gay, but Superman had to be able to sell movie tickets and toothpaste the Midwt.
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“You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015, ” Grayson ntu.
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