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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 Diverse fanbase when he began meeting more and more people from the collective 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 discovery 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 incorporate many LGBTQ+ characters in his story stemmed from his desire to produce an accurate inclusion of his earth, noting that The Sandman is first and foremost about people. "I'd deposit all of the
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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, interpretation good and bad ones. But how dare they do bad things while being a complex character! Desire, admittedly, is an as
All the LGBTQ+ characters in The Sandman that I can remember
As there are people who actually reflect the LGBTQ+ characters were added for the display, here is a canonical list of them from the source material.
Note: I’m one of those people who tend to leverage 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 exhibit, 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 have gay leanings. Aristaeus the Satyr = Pan Lucifer = Genderless and pan Mazikeen = Pan Loki = Loki Wanda = Trans lady 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 = Ace
Destiny - Probably Ace Jessamy - Possibly Lesbian ________________________
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The Gloriously Unapologetic Queerness of The Sandman
Netflix’s The Sandman is the talk of the fantasy-heads town this week. After waiting for almost a decade when a film adaptation of the graphic novel had been announced in 2013 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, on August 5th, 2022, fans of Neil Gaiman and his graphic novel finally got a screen adaptation on Netflix. The ten-episode-long first season of The Sandman has some changes from the source material, but Gaiman was closely involved with the show, and I for one didn’t find anything to complain about. On superior of the stunning visuals which are often literal recreations from page to screen, the cast has done an amazing profession of both looking prefer their characters and also, acting like them and delivering their lines enjoy you’d imagine them to if you read the graphic novels.
For those oblivious, this isn’t the first Gaiman work to be adapted for TV. His famous novel American Gods is a Starz Authentic series that has sadly been canceled. Another fan favorite, Good Omens, is an Amazon Original limited series. Good Omens has a bit of a debate about queer-baiting with some claiming it’s frustratingly queer-baiting and othe
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 representation. When, a few years earlier, J.K. Rowling revealed that Dumbledore was indeed queer , it almost felt like a gimmick thrown at the realization of her substantial queer fan base. It feels like 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 book series of the same designate. The Sandman aka Dream (Tom Sturridge), is one of the seven ‘Endless’—eternal beings who control over various aspects of human existence like, Desire (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