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DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
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Predictably, some on social media plaed, falsely, that the origal Superman had been “turned gay. ”Republin lawmaker Wendy Rogers, an Arizona state senator, was roundly mocked onle after smearg the character on Twter by g a “gay lisp” joke. Hollywood is tryg to make Superman gay and he is not.
As the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn has explaed:For example, referrg to two married women as a “lbian uple” whout nsirg that one or both women intifi as bi. Consirg a bisexual person eher gay or straight pendg on the sex of the person’s partner, or llg bisexuals “alli” to the LGBT muny, are also forms of bi erasure.
IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?
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