To foster awareness, appreciation, and discussion of queer sequential art and its creators
To become an educational resource of queer experiences, storytelling, and critical theory
All in Heartstopper
These people look like me, these don’t; these people think like me while these others don’t; and these people fall in love the same way I do, but those people don’t. Using factors like these to create categories can be argued to be inevitable, but what can be disputed is how they’re based on binaries.
These days, texting (the telegraph’s contemporary descendent) might not play such a pivotal role in fiction, but it does provide a rich, layered narrative and visual medium, especially when employed in comics.
An outcast is a person who suffers rejection due to factors outside of their control such as cultural background, race, skin color, and sexuality. Because of the way sexual minorities have been treated historically, the outcast character trope is almost eponymous with queer media.