Neil Gaiman wrote “The Sandman with Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg in 1989, long before the importance of representation in popular culture began to be discussed. In the adaptation that Warner Bros. has prepared for Netflix there is an actress who plays Lucifer, lesbian and gay protagonists, black actors and actresses and non-binary characters, but it is that this diversity was already in the pages of the comic and although the series has received great reviews and has been very well received by the public, there is a conservative sector that considers it “also” aware, diverse and politically correct, even threatening to boycott it. It is not the first time that Gaiman has faced this type of attack for introducing a large number of characters queer In his stories and during one of the promotional interviews he gave the perfect answer, because it is simple and direct, to those who wonder why there is so much inclusion.
“When I wrote it and now”Gaiman says in the video, “I had gay, trans friends … I wanted to see them represented in the comics I was writing. I felt that if I wrote comics and left them out I would not represent my world, either the world I live in or the world I perceive with precision, value or truth, and this is the goal of art. For me it was obvious. ”
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? Scott Dagostino (@scottdagostino) 2 August 2022
“I love Neil Gaiman giving the clearest and simplest answer to why ‘The Sandman’ has so many gay and trans characters. Impersonation matters.”
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In the comic book ‘The Sandman’ we find one of the first trans characters, Wanda Mann, and the lesbian couple Hazel and Foxglove; in the series Lucifer is played by actress Gwendoline Christie and Desire by Mason Alexander Park, a non-binary performer. Although in the course of the episodes the sexual orientation of many of his characters is revealed by chance, their partners do not define them and according to what Gaiman told The Queer Review, this does not imply any change in the intention of the work: “That’s how they were when I wrote them, that’s how I always wrote the characters. At the time [en el 89]I remember getting a very angry letter from “Worried Mothers of America”, informing us that due to the number of homosexual characters in “The Sandman” we would be boycotted and regretted it. We have never regretted it and the sales have increased more and more! So I never really cared about his boycott. But I worried about them. “
While there are people angry at Park’s choice to play Wish, her gender is certainly not the most interesting thing about her signature. Gaiman himself said he met the interpreter at San Diego Comic-Con, but the first time they spoke was on Twitter: “Mason reached out to me on Twitter and asked me, ‘Do you already have Wish? Who’s casting?’ I got curious and started watching Mason’s videos and I thought “Oh!” And I immediately said to Allan: “I think we have found our desire!” Mason showed me his tattoos and has a beautiful Desire tattoo with a quote of the character on his arm And I thought, “She’s wanted to be Wish for a long, long time and I love that you play the character.”. The first season of “The Sandman”, with 10 episodes, is now available on Netflix.
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