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.
Contents:
- DC COMICS NCELS S GAY SUPERMAN BOOK SERI AFTER JT 18 ISSU AS SAL FALL FLAT
- TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
- DC NCELS GAY SUPERMAN IC AMID SAL CLE
- DC COMICS CANCELS GAY SUPERMAN COMIC DUE TO DISMAL SAL
- FACT OR FICTN: SUPERMAN THE ICS IS NOW GAY?
- DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
- THE NEW SUPERMAN IS GAY
DC COMICS NCELS S GAY SUPERMAN BOOK SERI AFTER JT 18 ISSU AS SAL FALL FLAT
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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. 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.
Eltaeb was thrilled to see the end of the gay Superman seri. “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. And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay. If you need further proof that beg gay is a superpower, one of the greatt superhero of all time is g out as Monday, which is Natnal Comg Out Day, DC announced a forthg issue of the ic seri Superman: Son of Kal-El #5 will feature Superman clarg his bisexualy.
TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
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 comic book *
And a new Aquaman ic stars a gay Black man who is posned to bee the tle has been a steady evolutn for an dtry that had moved to censor self a number of ways after “Sctn of the Innocent, ” a 1954 book by the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, raised ncerns about sex, gore and vlence and suggted a lk between readg ics and juvenile lquency.
In one sectn, Wertham scribed Batman and Rob as “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together.
)One of the earlit mastream ics to feature gays or lbians appeared 1980.
DC NCELS GAY SUPERMAN IC AMID SAL CLE
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A, where two gay men try to rape him. “Mastream culture will one day make s peace wh gay Amerins, ” the edorial said.
DC COMICS CANCELS GAY SUPERMAN COMIC DUE TO DISMAL SAL
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. ClaimThe DC Comics character Superman was changed to be a gay man October this fact check? Predictably, some on social media plaed, falsely, that the origal Superman had been “turned gay.
”Republin lawmaker Wendy Rogers, an Arizona state senator, was roundly mocked onle after smearg the character on Twter by g a “gay lisp” joke. Hollywood is tryg to make Superman gay and he is not.
FACT OR FICTN: SUPERMAN THE ICS IS NOW GAY?
As the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn has explaed:For example, referrg to two married women as a “lbian uple” whout nsirg that one or both women intifi as bi.
Consirg a bisexual person eher gay or straight pendg on the sex of the person’s partner, or llg bisexuals “alli” to the LGBT muny, are also forms of bi erasure. Bisexual erasure plays a cril role rcg the muny’s visibily, and turn rcg accs to the rourc and support opportuni bisexual people so sperately Amerin Instute of Bisexualy has also argued that the practice is relatively recent:It was only when “homosexual” and “gay” beme mon labels morn society that the parative absence of “bisexual” and “bi” om polil disurse beme apparent.
Rather than the label “homosexualy” applyg only those wh solely same-sex attractns, those who had both same and other-sex attractns also got swept up the “homosexual” label rather than beg acknowledged as “bisexual”. In other words, “homosexual”, and, eventually, “gay”, evolved as the flt labels polil disurse for everyone who engag same-sex timacy, whether or not they also have different-sex romantic partners and one public example of rrectg an erasure attempt, actrs Anna Pacqu attracted prs verage 2014 when televisn prenter Larry Kg asked her if she was a “non-practicg bisexual” bee her hband, Stephen Moyer, is a cis-genr man.
DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
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.
In a prs release, DC Comics tried to sp the openly gay character as “bisexual” to soften the blow.
THE NEW SUPERMAN IS GAY
Former DC Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver, had warned about this velopment earlier: “Clark Kent, I gus, is gog to disappear and they are gog to replace him wh Jonathan Kent, and then they are gog to announce that Jonathan Kent is gay.
So Superman is ed gay, everyone. He’s gay, ” reported Cosmic Book.