Nino Bulling's first fiction comic, The flame (Windows; translation by Núria Molines Galarza), begins in spring and ends in winter, but in the middle, the person who is its protagonist does not experience any journey or evolution. At the beginning, Ingken presents herself as a girl with a masculine gender expression who is in a relationship with Lily, a transgender woman. "I'm super happy," she says in the first pages of the work. But as her story progresses, a strange malaise gradually appears and grows larger. By the time the comic ends, Ingken has managed to tell herself that she feels neither male nor female and knows that this realization changes her life, but, on the surface, she continues to present herself in the same way as at the beginning. Through The flameNino Bulling (Berlin, 1986) reflects that gender dysphoria "is not a moment of revelation, but a whole process" that, when present, calls into question the identity of the person experiencing it and the solidity of their environment.

Nemo's Eurovision win would have been a moment of celebration and euphoria, but for those who represented Switzerland it was an opportunity to put on the table the shortcomings regarding freedom of expression in the contest. Although Eurovision is a symbol of sexual liberation and diversity, Nemo has found the limits of this maxim. The interpreter of The code He explained in the subsequent press conference that he had to sneak the non-binary gender flag, with which he identifies, into the contest after the organization told him he could not show it.