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After producer Greg Berlanti st Ruby Rose as the first openly gay superhero to lead a TV show, the actrs enuntered harsh crics, leadg her to qu Twter.

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GAY SUPERHERO ‘BATWOMAN’ COM OUT AS OPENLY GAY ‘HISTORIC’ REVEAL

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FEAR OF A GAY BATMAN BROUGHT BATWOMAN TO LIFE

It’s 2020 and liberal televisn still thks ’s a big al to have a character be gay. It’s so important that characters outg their superhero alter egos on televisn is also a big al. CW’s Batwoman go the extra e by “outg” Batwoman as a lbian the universe of the show. Apparently, that’s the latt tone for the LGBTQ muny. * batwoman gay superhero *

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In 1992, Marvel Comics ma history wh s first openly gay superhero.

In Alpha Flight #106, durg a battle wh the World War II era superhero Major Mapleleaf, Northstar adms that he's gay. Curtis Holt, played by Echo Kellum, has been an openly gay man sce his first appearance on CW's Arrow, though he wasn't always a superhero. The hero were noteworthy for not only beg some of the earlit openly gay hero, but for beg obv reflectns of Batman and Superman.

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Ameri Chavez is a lbian raised by a gay uple — and she's also one of Marvel's most powerful superhero. Karma, is one of the foundg members of the New Mutants — the junr X-Men team — and an openly gay superhero. I thought you were the Gay/Lbian Alliance, " and fli away.

So was particularly and wonrfully subversive to base the two young gay men on hero — Hulk and Thor — who are known to regularly beat the tar out of one another.

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In 2019's Avengers #26, Marvel revealed s Earth's very first gay uple clud a member of s prehistoric Avengers. Ruby Rose knows ’s a big al that Batwoman is gay. And now the new “Batwoman” seri has mostly gotten attentn for featurg the first gay superhero a lead TV role.

“[That’s] why this show is so important, ” Rose said — she’s a gay superhero whose sexualy is tend to be no big al. “I mean, I even look at her as I look at my own sexualy, ” add Rose, who intifi as gay. Beg straight and beg gay, ’s the same thg.

”Gay hero have appeared throughout the CW’s DC shows as supportg characters, but never as a headler. It would have helped [] as well as other people feel ls alone and ls misunrstood or all nfed or isolated and different and not unlike many other thgs that e wh beg young and gay, ” Rose said. Her but was speculated to have been a ph back agast the mor that Batman and Rob were a gay uple, which was perpetuated by Fredric Wertham, who spoke equently on the effects he thought ic books had on child was killed off 1977, wh ocsnal rurrectns typil of superhero story l.

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7, when she was retroduced as Kate Kane — and, for the first time, openly gay, as was revealed she had a prr relatnship wh Gotham Cy police tective Renee 2009, she took over for Batman as the lead character of “Detective Comics” for 10 issu (she’s sce had two solo seri). “You don’t fight crime a gay way or a lbian way, ” Rose said. "Batwoman is also notable for beg played by lbian actrs Ruby Rose, jog out LGBTQ+ actors like Colton Hayn and Rsell Tovey the so-lled October 2019, Rose said of the role to Variety: "I've jt been gay forever, so don't feel like I'm dog anythg gayer or more gay....

Whether I'm playg straight or gay, me as a human beg, I live gay.

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It’s 2020 and liberal televisn still thks ’s a big al to have a character be gay. Really, the motivatn of this villa-of-the-week is that her parents aren’t supportive of her beg gay. Gay.

To try and “be herself, ” she fally “ out” to the public, givg an terview to the prs as Batwoman and revealg Batwoman to be gay. Time to relibrate our gaydar.

Beg gay don’t make one any more noble or self-sacrificg, so hardly nstut mentng a show about beg a hero. Even Deadle breathlsly reported on the scene, pretendg that a gay woman playg a gay superhero g out as gay on her own seri worthi a headle.

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