Fascinating post! I'm looking forward to seeing more people expound on it for their fandoms, because, at least in terms of Gunn, many of the people who were talking about why they didn't write him spoke in terms of class issues, and fear of stepping on them.

Those class issues were *obviously* entwined with race -- I think he would've been a lot more popular in fic if he had been played by a White actor, but... yeah. Class had a role, there. Sorry that I don't have anything intelligent to say. :(