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What Makes X-Men so Gay? - by #MattBaume on #YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhtkT0IeavA
> From the earliest issues, the X-men #comics used subtle subtext to comment on the way #society treats #outcasts. But when it came time to make a #movie in the early 2000s, filmmakers set a seemingly impossible goal — to make a direct comparison to gay rights, to tell a story about what happens when the #government targets #minorities, and to ask the question: In the face of #bigotry, is it better to respond with compromise, like Professor X? Or with violence, like Magneto? This is the story of the original X-Men films, the twenty-year struggle to make them, and why they are so very gay.