Now I'm well aware that Nerd conventions aren't known for being particularly well-oiled and smooth operations. Panels get added and dropped all the time with even less notice or reasoning. But when convention staff cancelled a pre-approved queer panel citing the fact that they already had plenty of queer content, I wanted to hold them to it and make sure that there indeed was a decent track of queer panels at this year's New York ComicCon.
I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they had indeed an overwhelming amount of panels on queer topics. It seemed unlikely since last year's NYCC had a total of zero explicitly queer panels, but you never know (they did have a panel on diversity with included Disney producer and young adult fiction novelist Perry Moore, who wrote a gay superhero young adult novel Hero*). So when the official panel listing came out last week, I dove through the impressive listing of over 650 panels. How many queer-related panels did I find? Two.
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