As of 2011,an estimated 9 million Americans identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual,or transgender1, yet Hollywood blockbusters continue to miss the existence of queer people, and particularly the ones already fighting crime on comic pages where there are at least 37 openly LGBTQ characters. For most audiences this lack of queer representation may seem like the accepted norm,but for the LGBTQ community the omission is a repeated assertion that queer people aren’t welcomed or worthy of existing in those fictional worlds. Acknowledging lesbian, gay, or bisexual,transgender and other spectrums of queer identities in franchise movies won’t only invent Hollywood more diverse, it could positively change the way our culture perceives the queer community.
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Source: comicsalliance.com