DC and Marvel Jockey For Media Spotlight wh Gay Storyl (Vio) – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• WHY WE WORRY ABOUT DC COMICS'S GAY CHARACTERS
• MARVEL MAK HISTORY WH ITS FIRST GAY WEDDG BETWEEN TWO SUPERHERO
• THREE GAY/BISEXUAL MALE SUPERHERO IN ONE DC COMIC? WELE TO 2022
• WHY YOUR COMICS ARE GETTG GAYER
• DC AND MARVEL JOCKEY FOR MEDIA SPOTLIGHT WH GAY STORYL (VIO)
• GAY SUPERHERO UNR FIRE OM US PRSURE GROUP
• DC COMICS CELEBRAT PRI MONTH WH “BE GAY, DO CRIM” AND OTHER SUPERHERO STORI
• MARVEL/DC LGBTQ REPRENTATN: WILL BISEXUAL STAR-LORD AMOUNT TO MORE GAY SUPERHERO ON THE BIG SCREEN?
• MARVEL'S GAY WEDDG, DC SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET

WHY WE WORRY ABOUT DC COMICS'S GAY CHARACTERS

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.

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.

MARVEL MAK HISTORY WH ITS FIRST GAY WEDDG BETWEEN TWO SUPERHERO

LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). The long history of the ped csar is ltered wh homoerotic subtext, but recent years has bee much more than subtext.

One of the origal X-Men, Bobby Drake is probably one of the most high-profile hero to e out recent is easier for publishers to make queer characters si-characters or one-offs, makg Iceman gay was a huge shift for ics. Not only did the character have a history on the screen, but when to the X-Men, Iceman is one of the stars who will no doubt appear Marvel tl until the day when Marvel shuts he hasn't been onscreen sce he me out officially, if the character do appear the future, makg him anythg but gay would fely e an uproar.

THREE GAY/BISEXUAL MALE SUPERHERO IN ONE DC COMIC? WELE TO 2022

When to queer ic book characters, one of the first and most important was Northstar, who was the first character a Marvel ic to e out as gay "Alpha Flight" #106 (1992) then, the mutant superhero has had a sttered rerd of appearg the ics, but 2012 ma history once aga by beg part of the first gay weddg Marvel ics history. “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.

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. LGBTQIA+ Reprentatn Marvel and DC icsNorthstarOne of the first gay superhero, Northstar buted X-Men ics 1979. In , different people feature and bee new Caps to protect their muni—one of whom is gay teenager Aaron Drake, aka, RobTim Drake is the third Rob, partner to Batman, butg 1989.

PhastosBrian Tyree Henry will play the first gay character the MCU Eternals, Phastos.

WHY YOUR COMICS ARE GETTG GAYER

When Jordan’s Green Lantern buted 1959, Stt was relegated to an alternate universe and, over the s, he’s retired, returned to crime-fightg, been tossed limbo, bee an elr statman, and been rebooted as a young gay crimefighter on yet another alternate Earth. This year, Green Lantern Alan Stt returned to his roots as an olr WWII-era hero who has “walked this Earth for a long time, much longer than should have been allotted, ” as he said March’s “Infe Frontier” the same issue, penned by bisexual wrer Jam Tynn IV, the gray-haired rg-slger out as gay to his adult children, the superhero duo Ja and Obsidian. ”Capta Ameri"The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri" ic book verMarvelIn June, Marvel’s “The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” miseri hs stor, troducg rears to a variety of everyday people om all walks of life who’ve taken up the mantle of Capta Ameri to fend their is gay teenager Aaron Fischer, “the Capta Ameri of the Railways, ” scribed a release as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed.

DC AND MARVEL JOCKEY FOR MEDIA SPOTLIGHT WH GAY STORYL (VIO)

“I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” Bazaldua said a statement. “I … didn’t know you’re a proponent of gay marriage?

GAY SUPERHERO UNR FIRE OM US PRSURE GROUP

“To , ’s not ‘gay’ marriage, ’s jt marriage. Jt two years ago, 2013, the wrers of DC’s Batwoman—the brand’s first openly gay mastream hero—rigned after DC refed to allow them to show Batwoman’s marriage to the Gotham p Maggie Sawyer.

At a Marvel-domated panel on LGBT characters and alli ics at New York Comic Con, we uldn't help but talk about what that other major ic pany was dog — and how an exec there said a gay marriage n't happen s pag bee hero aren't supposed to be happy.

DC COMICS CELEBRAT PRI MONTH WH “BE GAY, DO CRIM” AND OTHER SUPERHERO STORI

This article is om the archive of our partner a Marvel-domated panel on LGBT characters and alli ics at New York Comic Con, we uldn't help but talk about what that other major ic pany was dog — and how an exec there said a gay marriage n't happen s pag bee hero aren't supposed to be happy. In the pag of Astonishg X-Men, Liu wrote the pany's first gay weddg for s gay Canadian superhero Northstar.

How are LGBT issu like the dissolutn of the Defense of Marriage Act and the current state of anti-gay Rsia fdg their way to the pag of ic fictn? Archie, for example, which has an openly gay character, was the target of a vol One Milln Moms mpaign.

Ultimately, the goal for LGBT people real life and LGBT characters fightg the good fight ame by ame is to have homosexualy be as regular as heterosexualy. And equaly means that gay characters should be allowed to have jt as miserable marriag and relatnships as their heterosexual unterparts do. He's seen a time when there was an orr not to show the pany's two gay teen characters, Wicn and Hulklg, kissg.

MARVEL/DC LGBTQ REPRENTATN: WILL BISEXUAL STAR-LORD AMOUNT TO MORE GAY SUPERHERO ON THE BIG SCREEN?

A gay uple jt bee they're the only gay guys on the team, but holy crap we have three guys who n explore and how they f, " Ketchum said, realizg his double characters are still at a pot where wrers like Greg Pak still have some ncern maly bee mastream entertament has a history of gay and lbian characters who have been portrayed as murrers and nnivers (see: Rope). That giv him some pse creatg gay characters who may be villao—he don't want to be enforcg a stereotype or damagg the work of the gay rights movement.

Then aga, part of gay characters beg like any others should also allow them to be awome villas.

MARVEL'S GAY WEDDG, DC SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET

" Unfortunately, for gay characters and LGBT people, sometim feels like we're still at that article is om the archive of our partner The Wire. They were married The Authory #29 2002, perhaps the first marriage ics volvg a gay uple. Although Northstar of the X-Men married his partner, Kyle Jadu, back 2012, Jadu is not a characters Midnighter and Apollo hold the distctn of beg the first gay uple to tie the knot the 29th and fal issue of The Authory, which was published shortly before the seri’ ncellatn 2002.

Wicn and Hulklg were first troduced to the Marvel Universe as part of the Young Avengers seri 2005 and soon beme the first out gay teenagers the publisher’s history. I don't know, you wa ag for a gay/bisexual male superhero and then three turn up at once.

For a while, the proment gay/bi characters at DC Comics were all women and there was an unrcurrent of straight male gaze.