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IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
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!
“Somewhere, there’s a ltle kid who don’t thk he n be a superhero bee he's gay, ” she said. “There is a ltle kid that has been told he is worthls and he’s awful bee he’s gay, or she’s gay, or however they want to intify — they’ve been told that they are worthls bee of how they intify. "Brave would be havg him fightg for the rights of gay people Iran where they'll throw you off a buildg for the offense of beg gay, " Ca ntued, referencg real-life, state-sponsored executns of gay people Iran.
"The hero of yterday, todayThe first major gay superhero was Northstar, who buted 1979 Marvel Comics. In recent years, you've had characters like Marvel's Loki, who was genrfluid, and Deadpool, who is pansexual, " said Jul Diaz, the director of marketg for PensaCon, an annual, multi-genre nventn Pensala verg ics, sci-fi, and where the movi emphasize cultural and racial diversy, the ics have ntued to be more flexible lvg to the romantic terts of Augt, DC’s Tim Drake, who assum the role as Batman’s crime-fightg partner, Rob, me out as bisexual and the water-breathg and openly gay Jackson Hy, the son of the super-villa Black Manta, took up the mantle of Aquaman.