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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 LGBTQ+ fanbase when he began meeting more and more people from the community 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 finding 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 contain many LGBTQ+ characters in his story stemmed from his desire to build an accurate representation of hi
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When Sandman was written there WERE NO stereotypes in Media of Trans women. Want to realize 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 concept of beauty.
You won’t acknowledge the GLAAD award, and you twist Long for out of context, ignoring that they are literally the living embodiment of desires, meaning nice and bad one
All the LGBTQ+ characters in The Sandman that I can remember
As there are people who actually think the LGBTQ+ characters were added for the reveal, here is a canonical list of them from the source material.
Note: I’m one of those people who look after to use bi and pan interchangeably.
Alexander Burgess = Gay or pan Paul McGuire = Gay Constantine (all incarnations) = Pan The Corinthian = Gay in the comics / Pan in the show Rachel = Lesbian in the show, possibly pan in the comics Judy = Lesbian Donna AKA Foxglove = Lesbian Hazel = Lesbian Hal Carter / Dolly = Gay drag queen Cluracan the faery = Gay or pan. Seems to possess gay leanings. Aristaeus the Satyr = Pan Lucifer = Genderless and pan Mazikeen = Pan Loki = Loki Wanda = Trans woman Jim / Peggy = Gender nonconforming Desire = Nonbinary and pan Robin Goodfellow AKA Puck = Pan Chantal = Queer Zelda = Queer __________________ Speculative:
Morpheus = Possibly demi / pan romantic Calliope = She inspired Sappho. Probably pan. Aristeas The Raven / Poet = probably pan
Lucien / Lucienne = Ace
Cain = Ace Abel
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman has resonated with the LGBTQ+ community since the comic’s initial debut in print in It provided representation for us in a popular medium at a time when prejudice against our community was at an all moment high as a result of the ongoing AIDS crisis.
Through the years there have been many attempts to bring this epic tale to the screen, but all have failed, until now. Netflix debuted its first season of The Sandman on August 5 and the reason they succeeded is because Neil Gaiman himself was intimately involved in the development of the series and served as an executive producer.
The queer representation to be initiate on the display works so magnificently because of its casual nature. The characters just arise to be queer, its not the defining feature of any one character or used as a big plot point, it just is, which is how Gaiman wrote these characters in the first place. Speaking with The Queer Review Gaiman said:
“We didn’t really change anything, that was how they were when I wrote them, that’s always how I’ve written ch