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No Straight Lines traces the history of LGBTQ comics, and for anyone unfamiliar with it—or who takes Batwoman, Hulkling, Northstar, Poison Ivy, Wiccan, etc.
for granted—it is a shadowy one indeed. Director Vivian Kleiman uncovers the earliest days of queer comics, when anything even remotely LGBTQ-related had to publish underground and sell alongside pornography.
That changed with the rise of queer liberation and queer creators, many of whom appear on-camera here to share their own stories of penning content for a niche audience or bringing the aforementioned queer characters into the mainstream.
