lilac-buttons
asked:
Hello and happy Pride month! I loved reading and watching Good Omens, as well as a few of your other books (I particularly love the short story about the elderly woman and the holy grail). I'm wondering if any of your stories have openly LGBT+ characters, or maybe if you could recommend a novel you particularly enjoyed? As a lesbian it can be difficult to find fantasy/sci-fi stories with characters like you who don't end in tragedy. Thank you!
neil-gaiman
answered:

Well, Death: The Time of Your Life is probably the best of them. Or at least, it’s the one that I got the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for.  You’ll like Hazel and Foxglove, I hope; although the impetus is that Foxglove is a closeted rock performer (based loosely on people I knew in the ‘90s) and I hope the culture has changed enough to push that into the past. (I’m not actually certain if it’s available on its own now, or only in The Death Deluxe Edition: https://amzn.to/31F3U6w)

There are LGBT+ characters all the way through Sandman, and you’ll also find queer and LGBT+ characters, most of whom have happy endings, in American Gods, Coraline, and Neverwhere. (Murder Mysteries, a short story and graphic novel,adapted by the amazing P. Craig Russell,  has some angelic lovemaking in it, although they are technically angels, not humans.)