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149: Queer for King with Bryan Fuller

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Queerness and the AIDS Crisis

"I grew up in Dallas it was very casually racist very casually homophobic you know and there were jokes flying left and right as they as they did in the 80s in the early 90s where gay people were the fucking targets" "Stephen King and the books that I read were the places that I saw queerness not in my neighbors not across the street so I don't think we can underestimate the value of Stephen King however you categorize these characters whether they're positive representations or negative representations it is representation," she says. 'It may not count now in the public discourse of you make me mad because you didn't see me exactly how I would be but I think that's something that hopefully

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