Like if I want to read a story where homophobia doesn't exist, there are PLENTY of sci-fi and fantasy settings that will give me that.

But I'm PRIMARILY a fan of media from and about some of just the wORST times to have been queer-- I'm a fan of these things as a queer man who wants stories that reckon with these things! And I don't want to have these anxieties ironed out of my favorite characters, I want them to seek joy DESPITE! Because things are hard where I live right now and people are trying to make them harder, and now I have to find joy despite!