Is DC Really Makg Superman Gay?

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From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non.

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DC COMICS NCELS S GAY SUPERMAN BOOK SERI AFTER JT 18 ISSU AS SAL FALL FLAT

Which versns of Superman, Rob, and Wonr Woman are gay? How DC Comics is refg the symbols of characters like Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash for a new, queerer generatn. * gay superman dc comics *

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! 'You do you':People share their emotnal stori to help others on Natnal Comg Out DayNatnal Comg Out Day:Publicly gay pro baseball player creat support group for othersJon Kent's same-sex relatnship is also not the only parture om the origal Superman’s life, The New York Tim noted.

“Characters that were unknown to most of the general public — like Starman, say, or Maggie Sawyer, or Green-Lantern-no-not-the-active-one-wh-a-seri-but-the-olr-one-nobody-outsi-of-ics-fandom-knows-by-name — uld be gay, but Superman had to be able to sell movie tickets and toothpaste the Midwt. “You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015, ” Grayson ntu.

DC NCELS GAY SUPERMAN IC AMID SAL CLE

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A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and ut gture, but every gture tak on outsized meang when speakg out is self a source of fear.

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. 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.

IS DC REALLY MAKG SUPERMAN GAY?

Created 1998, Apollo and Midnighter were among the first married gay upl superhero ics — and they were totally parodi of Batman and Superman. Now, thanks to DC Comics ntuy, the four characters fally met face to face. * gay superman dc comics *

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. After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992.

LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). In Augt, was announced that the latt versn of Rob would have a boyiend while March, Marvel also ma the cisn to pass the mantle of Capta Ameri to a gay the big-screen worlds of Marvel and DC rema ls progrsive.

TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART

Are the mors te? IS DC really makg Superman gay? Well…about that. Here's how that mor got started. * gay superman dc comics *

This November’s Eternals is set to change thgs wh the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first LGBTQ+ kiss between Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos, the first openly gay superhero a Marvel movie, and Haaz Sleiman, who plays his hband. On Augt 19, Van Sciver ma a livtream which he claimed that “Clark Kent is gog bye-bye” orr to be replaced by Jon, who would then e out as gay, “so Superman is effectively gay. ” Aga, unclear if the s actually thk this is te or are jt fanng the flam of knee-jerk homophobic anger, but this sort of thg happens all the time and generally stays ntaed wh s ual echo chamber.

Gay, bi, pan, may be a while till this to un on the page. Anyone wrg about this mor who is payg enough attentn to the actual ics has intified Jay as Jon’s new love tert — and hey, when I read the issue, I too was like “Well, there’s some homoerotic subtext happeng here!

RUMOR: DC COMICS PLANS TO MAKE SUPERMAN GAY

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. * gay superman dc comics *

” But ics have been rife wh homoerotic subtext sce Jon’s dad first cid to wear his unrwear outsi of his pants 1938. On the other hand, if the world at large firmly believ Jon Kent is gay, maybe DC will have to make him gay or risk lookg homophobic…?

Jon Kent is fely gay, and I too have many secret sourc si DC nfirmg this. “Superman’s symbol has always stood for hope, for tth and for jtice, ” he announcement cid wh Monday’s Natnal Comg Out Day, which began 1988 to mark the anniversary of the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights and has sce bee an annual event held on Oct. 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.

DC COMICS WILL MAKE SUPERMAN GAY AN UNEXPECTED SHAKE-UP, AND FANS ARE OVERJOYED

It's beg reported that DC Comics uld turn the inic Superman character to a gay character to promote clivy for their brand. * gay superman dc comics *

Neverthels, this data pot seemgly dited that Taylor and DC Comics’ edorial cisn to make Superman gay was a one and done gimmick and that might have actually driven away rears of the seri. ” But DC isn’t the only ics pany to expand their horizons, as Capta Ameri me out as gay a recent limed ic seri for Marvel tled “The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri. The DC Universe has th far failed to feature any major characters as members of the LGBTQ+ muny, while Marvel Studs will feature s most notable gay superhero this November’s film “Eternals.

I remember when Batwoman beme the pany’s first gay character to headle a book 2009, and Midnighter beme DC’s first solo seri for a gay man 2015, and the long stretch of the 2010s when Wonr Woman, and Harley Qun, and Poison Ivy, and John Constante were fally allowed to be irrevobly queer. Intertgly, however, a new mor suggts that DC tends to change the character and turn Superman gay. The vio was tled “SUPERMAN IS GAY!

As such, turng Superman gay uld only be the next step makg their brand much more clive. It’s almost like, at this pot, there is very ltle money mastream ics and the one way to fely get a ltle attentn, to get some prs, is to announce a character is trans or bisexual or there is a trans or bisexual or homosexual the ics. “I jt want to say that there is absolutely nothg wrong, if you are gay and you are icsgate, we love you and you are wele, and there should be gay characters ics.

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