Are the mors te? IS DC really makg Superman gay? Well…about that. Here's how that mor got started.
Contents:
- TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
- IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
- IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?
TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
DC Comics and wrer Tom Taylor's gay Superman book, Superman: Son of Kal-El pletely fell out of the Top 50 sal charts for the month of Febary. * superman gay son *
Fally, they start nudgg a few top-tier characters out of the closet — but are always reful never to send 'em out whout first attachg an all-important asterisk, as a bulwark agast any backlash om homophobic rears (and/or stockholrs): Rob's queer! " Andre Thomas of NYC PRIDE said a gay or bisexual ma character giv hope to rears.
In Augt, DC Comics revealed that Batman's legendary sikick Rob, AKA Tim Drake, was set to go on a date wh a male iend In March, Marvel unveiled s first gay Capta Ameri, Aaron Fischer, who is 'spired by hero of the queer muny', the pany revealed In Augt, the ic book pany revealed that the Caped Csar's longtime sikick Rob, a. Fans of the ic weled the revelatn sayg they spected Drake may be bisexual or gay for years. In March, Marvel revealed their first openly-gay Capta Ameri character, Aaron Fischer, which is buted durg Pri Month this past year.
Speakg on "Good Morng Bra, " Biggs, who is gay, said that he wasn’t favor of turng Superman to a bisexual man.
IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
"But brave would be havg him fight for the rights of gay people Iran where they’ll throw you off a buildg for the offense of beg gay.
And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay. But brave would be havg him fight for the rights of gay people Iran where they’ll throw you off a buildg for the offense of beg gay. 11 to support lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr newt versn of Superman was released on Monday, to ci wh Natnal Comg Out Day the Uned Stat.
This is a dynamic which led homophobic cric Fredric Wertham to suggt the 1950s that superhero (pecially Batman and Rob) promoted homosexualy through their privilegg of male/male bonds. The pot here isn’t that Superman was really gay those early ics.
IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?
But the obssn wh double inty and disavowed sire do suggt that the character has been built on anxieti about homosexualy and masculy.
) But at the same time, refg to date women also mak Superman ls than fully male a homophobic, misogynist culture which se homosexualy as feme and therefore lser. There are superhero stori over the years, though, that have qutned the genre’s terlked mments to homosexual panic and to vlence. Superman, many of his eratns, is most sred not of Kryptone but of femy, which has stereotypilly been lumped together wh homosexualy.
Other major LGBTQ ic characters clu DC’s Batwoman, Harley Qun and Alan Stt (aka the first Green Lantern), and Marvel’s Iceman, Ameri Chavez (aka Miss Ameri) and Northstar — one of the very first openly gay ic book characters when he me out 1992. If you need further proof that beg gay is a superpower, one of the greatt superhero of all time is g out as Monday, which is Natnal Comg Out Day, DC announced a forthg issue of the ic seri Superman: Son of Kal-El #5 will feature Superman clarg his bisexualy.