Prr to the 1980s, all ic book characters were assumed to be, and prented as, "straight" heterosexual people. But people are plited and societi evolve, so sce that time has e to be acknowledged that some characters are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. The Comics Co...
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- TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
- WAS JERICHO OF THE TEEN TANS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
- TAG ARCHIV: GAY PASTOR
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
In the latt Comic Book Legends Revealed, fd out whether the Teen Tan known as Jericho was origally gog to be gay * jericho dc gay *
In any event, when Perez and Wolfman were creatg the character, their ial tent was to have him be gay.
Perez explaed to the Gay League why they cid to change their md, ""While Marv and I did discs the possibily of Joseph Wilson beg gay, Marv cid that was too much of a stereotype to have the sensive, artistic, and wi-eyed character wh arguably effemate featur be also homosexual.
After the ial bate on whether to make Jericho gay or not, Perez went all on Jericho as not only beg straight, but beg a ladi man. She later ntued to pursue the topic and he fally adms to her that he is gay... Whout makg a big fs about , Tans nfirmed that Mercy is ed queer and she has a fay—which is a HUGE relief to *this* Tans fan who has been sperately wag for some gay sh to happen for two seasons already!!
WAS JERICHO OF THE TEEN TANS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
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When Marv Wolfman and Gee Pérez were creatg the character for New Teen Tans, they nsired whether to make him gay or not. Pérez told the Gay League webse "While Marv and I did discs the possibily of Joseph Wilson beg gay, Marv cid that was too much of a stereotype to have the sensive, artistic, and wi-eyed character wh arguably effemate featur be also homosexual".
In the latt Comic Book Legends Revealed, fd out whether the Teen Tan known as Jericho was origally gog to be gay. This time, our first legend is about whether Marv Wolfman and Gee Perez origally tend for Jericho of the Teen Tans to be gay. I me across the issue aga readg on DC Infe and as an adult I started to wonr if Marv Wolfman had possibly tend to make Jericho one of the first gay ic characters.
TAG ARCHIV: GAY PASTOR
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So as to your qutn, I thk the answer is more of a no, Jericho of the Teen Tans was NOT origally tend to be gay, but 's very tricky. When Perez and Wolfman were creatg the character, their ial tent was to have him be gay. Perez explaed to the Gay League why they cid to change their md, "While Marv and I did discs the possibily of Joseph Wilson beg gay, Marv cid that was too much of a stereotype to have the sensive, artistic, and wi-eyed character wh arguably effemate featur be also homosexual.
Te or false that he was origally meant to be gay? I thk that's jt too much of a stretch to say that Jericho was ever "origally meant to be gay.
How did Marv Wolfman retroactively make Jericho gay? The tertg thg, of urse, was even after apparently cidg to NOT make Jericho gay, Wolfman (wh Perez off of the book to draw Crisis on Infe Earths and then The History of the DC Universe and then Wonr Woman) sure seemed to ht that he WAS. As my pal Bill Walko noted to me, though, the stori were ripe for discsns om fandom, and fans wrote about the Jericho/Kole stuff, and while ially was simply "Joe was beg a gentleman to Kole, " a follow-up askg about the gay subtext led to "Kole is ad now, so don't matter.
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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" Another rear wrote to Teen Tans Spotlight askg about the posibily of Jericho beg gay, and was unanswered, and then Wolfman did three-part story Teen Tans Spotlight (wh art by Ross And and Dennis Jensen), that revolved around the fact that Joe had a former female fiancée. Many years later, though, right before the DC Rebirth versn of Jericho was revealed to be bisexual, Wolfman got to wre a Teen Tans story set the Crisis years Convergence: New Teen Tans #1-2 (art by Nila Stt, Marc Deerg and Jeremy Cox), and was able to revis the Jericho/Kole dynamic, only this time have Jericho e out as gay... ), and so when Perez and Wolfman troduced Jericho, the ia was for him to be straight, but then Perez left for years, and Wolfman didn't do much about Jericho those ensug years, and 's at least POSSIBLE that Wolfman played around wh the ia of PERHAPS dog some hts towards Jericho possibly beg gay some of the Perez-ls stori, but end up not dog much wh the character perd, and then Perez fally returned, and ma Jericho SUPER straight.
But people are plited and societi evolve, so sce that time has e to be acknowledged that some characters are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Extraño, DC Comics' first openly gay super-hero. The Comics Co Authory explicly forba pictn of homosexualy until 1989, fluenced by Fredric Wertham's Sctn of the Innocent, who saw homosexual elements the relatnship between Batman and his ward Rob.
Millennium #2 was not the first appearance of homosexual characters DC Comics, however, is the first time we have seen an openly gay character at DC Comics.