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- [Interviewer] There's
sort of a casual approach

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to introducing more queer characters

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and talking about queerness on the show,

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which has been really great to see.

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- Yeah.
- [Interviewer] How important

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was it for you to be
talking about those things,

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even if it's in just a casual sense?

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- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Casual is actually the right way to do it.

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It never feels important to me.

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It feels natural because
you've gotta realize

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that is my world.

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It's my only world.
- [Interviewer] Yeah.

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- I don't recognize any other world.

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And if you look at the
rest of my work, I mean,

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that's the work I've
been doing since 1999.

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So it's just natural to me.

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There's no other way I would write.

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There's a danger in
making it sound surprising

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as though you are introducing
that into a straight world.

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and the world isn't straight.

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The world is everything.

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The world is-
- [Interviewer] Absolutely.

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- Every shape and type
out there is possible.

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The notion of a monolithic
straight world in which

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you introduce these
notions does not exist.

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And so that's why I feel the freedom

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and the joy of doing this,

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and I think it's something
to be celebrated.

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It's a joyful thing rather than a mission.

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