Why are there so many gays in the sandman
This Friday, August 5th sees the launch of the visually stunning and thrillingly expansive season one of The Sandman, based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning DC comic book series. Although the first issue hit newsstands back in 1989, it has taken decades to spot a screen adaptation realized. “For 30 years, people who weren’t me tried to make Sandman movies”, Neil Gaiman—who wrote the authentic comics and has developed this series for Netflix along with fellow executive producer David S. Goyer and showrunner Allan Heinberg—tells The Queer Review.
“At this point, I’ve probably read about 15 to 20 distinct Sandman movie scripts”, Gaiman shares. “All of them tried to take 3,000 pages of story and cram it into two hours. All of them were terrible. Even the good ones were terrible, because they weren’t really Sandman. The biggest thing we had going for us was that we would have hour to tell the story.”
Throughout the first season, a range of Queer characters is introduced. Revealed in a casual way, none of them are defined by their sexuality or gender identity; it’s just one aspect of who they are, in line
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1. Neil Gaiman, himself, removed the use of slurs for the mini-series. He cannot undo what was put in the book when the co-author is dead. He has apologized for that content. And he was the show runner and scribe for the show. So he made certain that was not in the mini-series.
2. It’s LGBTQ culture. Not just “gay.” I really loathe how the unused and very toxic aspect of the Good Omens fandom keeps trying to erase the rest of us. Queer is a spectrum now. The characters do not identify as male. Everything that you claim is “connected to gay” is also connected to a variety of aspects of LGBTQ culture. Many people who don’t distinguish as men will not use the word lgbtq+, and instead choose lgbtq+ (Neil has said they are queer). Some operate gay, some don’t. This should be respected.
I am so very tired of this thinly disguised toxic erasure in the fandom. “It has to specifically be gay. Anything else is the wrong kind of LGBTQ representation!” That’s how this feels and it’s shameful that this thinly disguised bigotry got proudly shared over two hundred times.
3. Neil Gaiman has never denied that the characters are a couple. In fact he has repeatedly sa
Even before Hagrid delivered Harry’s first Hogwarts letter, the realm of the fantastical had me in its thrall. As a child I remember devouring Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne, Bagha Byne films—about two ostracized musicians who are blessed with magical powers by a ‘King of Ghosts’. While my love for the fantasy genre remains unabated, what disappoints me is that it does not have greater queer voice. When, a few years earlier, J.K. Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was indeed gay, it almost felt like a gimmick thrown at the realization of her substantial queer fan base. It feels appreciate such a missed opportunity because the very element of fantasy lends itself to subverting the conventions of a normative world.
Then I stumbled across the Netflix series “The Sandman”, which was adapted from Neil Gaiman’s comic publication series of the alike name. The Sandman aka Dream (Tom Sturridge), is one of the seven ‘Endless’—eternal beings who control over various aspects of human life like, Long for (Mason Alexander Park), Despair (Donna Preston) and Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste). At the very outset, Dream is inadvertently captured by a group of occultists led by Roderick Burgess (Charles
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When Sandman was written there WERE NO stereotypes in Media of Trans women. Want to know why? Because there was no representation at all in media so there was nothing to stereotype. Until Wanda there were no Trans characters in any DC Comic that anyone could name.
Also how can she be a stereotype if your complaint is she doesn’t conform to a popular trope?
Every reason you’ve given for not being happy at the representation has proven wrong.
You claim that all the LGBT+ characters are abusive or cheat on each other. This was proven false but you keep repeating it anyway.
In fact there’s only one abusive LGBT+ character in all of Sandman. And that’s Judy. And she dies in the very issue she’s introduced.
You claim Wanda represents a negative stereotype but you’re the only one stereotyping by calling her a “Man in a dress” because she doesn’t fit a sexist idea of beauty.
You won’t acknowledge the GLAAD award, and you twist Desire out of context, ignoring that they are literally the living embodiment of desires, essence good and bad ones. But how dare they do bad things while being a complex character! Desire, admittedly, is an as
Neil Gaiman Explains Why LGBTQ Characters Are Essential to Sandman's Story
The Sandmancreator Neil Gaiman shared why LGBTQ+ characters are such an integral part of the comic's story.
In an interview with Logo, published just after Netflix's series adaptation of the comic premiered, Gaiman explained what drove him to feature characters belonging to the queer community in The Sandman. He said he realized his comic series was steadily acquiring a large Queer fanbase when he began meeting more and more people from the group at conventions. "The people in the [signing] lines, I would be starting to meet more and more LGBT people who were just not the kind of people who would ever read comics, but they were result Sandman and they were finding themselves in Sandman,"Gaiman stated."That was huge."
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Gaiman then went on to say that his decision to involve many LGBTQ+ characters in his story stemmed from his desire to build an accurate voice of his planet, noting that The Sandman is first and foremost about people. "I'd position all of the