Maxxie La Wow Sh!t

This week, we spoke with the creator of an upcoming animated film about a super-shero drag queen. It got me to thinking about representation and where my generation might be if we had seen more of ourselves and our community on television in an unapologetic, fully realized kind of way. We had tropes; we had flat, supporting characters that were part of a single episode addressing an issue of queerness where the actor was little more than a foil to show conflict and growth within the main character (usually male) and their spouse (exclusively female). But that was all we got.

Who would each of us be if we had shows like Queer as Folk and Will & Grace during our formative years, instead of in our adulthood? Well, we would be the queer youth of today, of course! Representation and conversation in the mainstream have lead to queer and trans youth finding their identity at a younger age and with less negative outcomes. Jealous? I know I am! We can’t change the past, though, so let’s focus our attention instead on celebrating having now what we wanted then. There is a great project to give the world more fully realized queer content in the vein of an animated, tongue-in-cheek, super-shero, feature length film. Go support Maxxie La Wow!