What started out as a small group of "gay geeks" Seattle has turned to a worldwi muny of 50,000 people.
Contents:
- 'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
- BT GAY ROMANCE WH BOOKISH/NERDY/GEEKY CHARACTERS
- HEY ALAN STT! WELE TO THE GEEK GAY-BORHOOD!
'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
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”The Seattle rint end up takg to Facebook to start a group he’d ll “Gay Geeks. ” He wanted to see if there might be a few other people out there who are gay and also GarciaCourty of Alex GarciaHe was astound when, wh s first year, Gay Geeks grew om a handful of lol guys to a worldwi muny of about 10, 000 said the fn of what mak a Gay Geek is pretty broad and clive, cludg, but not limed to, ic book nerds, Pokémon lovers and every type of gamer — be they tabletop, PC or, seven years later, the group has more than 50, 000 members — a membership tone passed jt this week. K., Canada, Atralia and Brazil — ’s send, third, fourth, and fifth largt untri of membership, has acplished more than jt fdg a few other gays like him: He has built one of the premier plac onle for people like him to fd each Col O’ O'Neill, who was abandoned by his fay Seattle at 15 bee he was gay, found a new fay through Alex Garcia's Gay Geeks Facebook group.
” Like many gay people, his fay nsists maly of those he has chosen rather than those wh whom he shar a bloodle.
20 GAY GREEK GODS
From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * geek gay *
Shortly after fdg and jog Gay Geeks, O'Neill me across Sam while scrollg a popular weekly thread lled “Selfie Saturday.
Much of what is marketed to gay men be hyper-sexualized, and the group wanted to avoid havg s social media acunts bee feeds of shirtls guys. ”Col O'Neill (right) and Sam (left) met through the Gay Geeks Facebook group, and they have been married for one year. “Sam's fay accepted me pletely to their fay, and has been so amazg to have them my life, ” he said the group's membership is prised of mostly gay men, but do have a small, but active, number of lbians, too.
Startg Gay Geeks (and now a host of other groups foced on geeks, beg gay and general fandom) has also proved to be a fulfillg enavor for the group's founr. We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in. (CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch.
20 GAY GREEK GODS
Why was the first openly gay superhero exiled to the closet for over a ? * geek gay *
As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015. Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.
The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda. In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.
AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992. LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics).
Tense scene between the two inic characters the recently-released Cosmic Ghost Rir Dtroys Marvel History #2 ic, we totally see don't have much ntext (sce we haven't read the ic yet), but what n only be scribed as a super homoerotic beach stand-off, brief-wearg Peter Parker (who has taken off his Spiy su and is drippg wet for some reason) yells, "You want me?
)So will there be more homoerotic scen between Spir-Man and Venom the future?
BT GAY ROMANCE WH BOOKISH/NERDY/GEEKY CHARACTERS
A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns. The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn.
While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr.
Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.
HEY ALAN STT! WELE TO THE GEEK GAY-BORHOOD!
Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods. Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World.
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