Thanks to Manta Sleep for sponsoring this video! Use code MATTNAP10 to get 10% off a Manta Sleep mask: tinyurl.com/42us5ab4

From the earliest issues, the X-men comics used subtle subtext to comment on the way society treats outcasts. But when it came time to make a movie in the early 2000s, filmmakers set a seemingly impossible goal — to make a direct comparison to gay rights, to tell a story about what happens when the government targets minorities, and to ask the question: In the face of bigotry, is it better to respond with compromise, like Professor X? Or with violence, like Magneto? This is the story of the original X-Men films, the twenty-year struggle to make them, and why they are so very gay.

Join me on Patreon for bonus videos about the making of the X-Men: www.patreon.com/c/mattbaume

Watch the full conversation with Anthony Oliveira:    • Full conversation with Anthony Oliveira ab...  
Watch the full conversation with JP Karliak:    • Full conversation with JP Karliak about vo...  
Listen to Anthony and JP on my podcast, The Sewers of Paris: sewersofparis.com/

Thanks to Emma from ‪@mediaprocessingchannel‬ for the edit on this video!