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Tom Hiddleston’s trickster god Loki came out as bisexual last week on his Disney+ series, making him Marvel Studios’ first openly queer lead character ... although his sexuality arrives with an asterisk, as it does for the characters everything from Cruella and Luca to the Avengers and Star Wars movies. NOW associate entertainment editor Glenn Sumi and art director Daniel de Souza join Norm to talk about what is and isn’t achieved with this sort of representation, and how we’ll know when gay and lesbian characters are truly being seen in mainstream entertainment.