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A MAJOR CHARACTER IS COMG OUT AS GAY & MORE ARROW, FLASH, SUPERGIRL & LEGENDS OF TOMORROW SOP
* legends of tomorrow gay characters *
When he first troduc himself, Constante hs on both Leonard “Leo” Snart, a gay hero om another Earth, and Vixen, a woman om the past who n harns the spirs of animals. The msage: Man or woman, past or prent, this Earth or another, bisexual, gay, or straight—anyone n get Constante fired viewers might worry that pictg Constante’s attractn as wi-rangg and unpredictable risks reproducg a uple of stereotyp: There’s the promiscuo bisexual, who wants to have all, and the nfed bisexual, who don’t know what he wants yet.
Bee of a mon assumptn that the genr of someone’s love tert term that person’s sexualy, viewers n often read characters as eher straight or gay only. As the thor Maria San Filippo wr The B Word: Bisexualy Contemporary Film and Televisn, “At any given moment a bisexual person or film character might appear heterosexual or homosexual pendg on his or her prent object choice. ”By showg Constante as shiftg between men and women, Legends actively ph agast the clatn to read him as eher straight or gay.
By placg Constante the center of this nfiguratn—next to a gay man and bisexual woman—the show emphasiz the warlock’s simultaneo exprsn of same-sex and oppose-sex sire. At the end of “Daddy Darhkt, ” Constante, fyg the myth that bisexual men are jt men who have yet to realize they are gay, hooks up wh Sara Lance.