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What's So Queer about Being Here?
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What's So Queer about Being Here?

An episode of So Help Me Todd highlights the cruelty of LGBTQ+ panic

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Todd and Lawrence, brothers in So Help Me Todd, talk in a car on a stakeout. More context below.

Sometimes the best place to check in with the “state of our discourse” isn’t a grand, topical film or sensational op-ed piece about a key social issue; it’s in how we represent ourselves to ourselves in offhand ways, in everyday media.

Legal shows in particular are so baked into Western TV culture that they’ve become a standard vocabulary for assessing w…

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