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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 , it has taken decades to view a screen adaptation realized. &#;For 30 years, people who weren&#;t me tried to make Sandman movies&#;, Neil Gaiman—who wrote the original 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 adj Sandman movie scripts&#;, Gaiman shares. &#;All of them tried to take 3, 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 period to tell the story.&#;

Throughout the first season, a range of LGBTQ+ characters is introduced. Revealed in a casual way, none of them are defined by their sexuality or gender identi

In the near deliver you, dear Nichers, will likely be seeing a lot about the BBC/Amazon mini-series of Good Omens. You probably already have—it&#;s actually a little scary how many non-internet people I understand who&#;ve asked me if I&#;ve heard about &#;this modern show&#; like I don&#;t have every page of the novel inscribed in my brain forever. There&#;s just a few quick things I, a longtime and vocal fan of the novel, want to build sure everyone knows before it begins.

  1. Good Omens is a book by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about the apocalypse, published in
  2. It is a terribly humorous book.
  3. It is also deeply moving.

But all this is besides the point, because, most importantly:

  1. It is gay.

Yes, yes, the kid Antichrist and his friends are cute, there&#;s some very clever Douglas Adamsian narrative, and friendship saving the day always gets me a teary-eyed, but let&#;s be clear: I&#;m here for the angel and demon in love, as are at least half of us, judging by the AO3 stats.

And honestly, precious Nichers, that&#;s what you&#;re here for, right? To realize if it&#;s gay? Well con

ABOVE: Tom Sturridge as &#;The Sandman.&#; Photo courtesy of Netflix.

For the millions of fans who verb embraced Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” and its darkly stunning, queer-inclusive mystical universe since it debuted in comic guide form more than three decades ago, the arrival of a new Netflix series based on it is a very, very enormous deal – even if, for the uninitiated, it might be hard to understand why.

After all, the streaming massive has already unleashed such a vast array of LGBTQ-friendly fantasy movies and shows that one more, welcome though it may be, hardly seems fancy anything new. As any of the above-mentioned fans will quickly tell you, however, “Sandman” is not just any fantasy series.

Initiated by DC Comics as a revival of an older comic book of the same name, it was handed over to Gaiman – then still a budding writer of comics with a few promising titles under his belt – with the stipulation that he keep the call but change everything else. The comic series he came up with went on to love a issue original run from to , an era when an expanded literary appreciation

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 add many LGBTQ+ characters in his story stemmed from his desire to verb an accurate representation of hi