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Contents:
- FEATURED FANFICTN
- BATMAN V SUPERMAN: 11 OF THEIR GAYT MOMENTS
- 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
FEATURED FANFICTN
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BATMAN V SUPERMAN: 11 OF THEIR GAYT MOMENTS
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If you are unr the age of 18, offend by gay ntent, or superhero peril, TURN AWAY NOW! To celebrate the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Jtice, PkNews tak a look at the superhero’ most homoerotic moment. Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.
Fredric Wertham wrote "Sctn Of The Innocent, " a book that alleged, among other thgs, that Wonr Woman was a lbian and that Batman and Rob were gay lovers. Although Wertham's allegatns have been long been ridiculed by the ics muny, some dtry sirs like Joe Phillips see a gay subtext throughout the superhero genre. He says he's fascated by the unrlyg "gayns" of the superhero, and he's takg out of the closet and to a seri of patgs he lls "Beefke Hero, " currently on display at a San Diego art gallery.
'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
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Strange, Superman and Capta Ameri barg their oiled, rippled physiqu eher tight jockey shorts or sktight spanx and wearg e hher looks more mon gay magaz like Blue Boy than, say, the pag of "Superboy.
"Although the typil rear of a superhero ic is tagged as a heterosexual young adult male, Phillips says the characters have also had a big fluence on the gay muny. "Although Phillips is openly gay, Salazar adms puttg a gay-iendly sp on popular superhero is an act of bravery sce he still works the dtry.
"He's a good artist -- I'll give him that -- and I'm ol wh guys who are gay, but I want to see superhero savg the world, not pickg each other up, " said the man. RelatedsupermanComic-Congaypta amerislipollajax. Unpackg the gay subtext of Rob, the Boy Wonr.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
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Gay subtext managed to suate self to the Dynamic Duo’s dyad om the very start.
Let’s get one thg absolutely clear: Rob isn’t gay. So have wrers like Frank Miller, Denny O’Neil, Alan Grant, and Dev Grayson—though Grayson admted that she uld “unrstand the gay readgs. After all, if a character isn’t wrten as gay, then that character n’t possibly be gay, right?
JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Gayns is built to Batman. Batman is VERY, very gay. … but the whole basis of the ncept is utterly gay.
But gay subtext managed to suate self to the Dynamic Duo’s dyad om the very start. “It is like a wish-dream, ” he famoly wrote, “of two homosexuals livg together.
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CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
Intentn don’t matter when to gay subtext. This is why, as a visual medium filled wh silent cu like body language and background tail, superhero ics have proven a particularly fertile vector for gay readgs over the years.
That panel of a be-toweled Bce and Dick loungg together their solarium, for example, would not rry the potent homoerotic charge do, were the same scene simply scribed borg ol’ prose. But gay subtext, like rmatn, longs to be ee, and the universe doggedly nspired to keep droppg advertently hilar panels like this one, om a 1966 Jtice League of Ameri ic, to Bat-non:.