Anyone who has seen the Doom Patrol television series will be familiar with the character/setting Danny the Street, a sentient genderqueer, teleporting street that welcomes misfits and loners.
The character first appeared in issue #35 of the second volume of the Doom Patrol comic book in 1990. It should come as no surprise that the writer that created Danny the Street, Grant Morrison, has just come out.
In the Scottish writerâs recent interview with Mondo 2000, Morrison explains:
âwhen I was a kid there were no words to describe certain aspects of my own experience. Iâve been non-binary, cross-dressing, âgender queerâ since I was 10 years old, but the available terms for what I was doing and how I felt were few and far between. We had âtranssexualâ and âtransvestiteâ both of which sounded like DSM classifications rather than lifestyle choices! I didnât want to be labelled as a medical aberration because thatâs not how it felt, nor was it something cut-and-dried and done. I didnât want to âtransitionâ or embody my âfemaleâ side exclusively, so I had no idea where I fit in.
Terms like âgenderqueerâ and ânon-binaryâ only came into vogue in the mid-90s. So kids like me had very limited ways of describing our attraction to drag and sexual ambiguity. Nowadays thereâs this whole new vocabulary, allowing kids to figure out exactly where they sit on the âcolor wheelâ of gender and sexuality, so I think itâs OK to lose a few contentious words when you are creating new ones that offer a more finely-grained approach to experience.â
Morrison has most recently served as writer, executive producer, and series creator for the NBCUniversalâs Peacock series Brave New World, based on the book of the same name by Aldous Huxley.Â
It is unknown at this time what Morrisonâs preferred pronouns are.
Sources: Mondo 2000, DC Universe
