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- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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. * nubia dc gay *
A while back someone asked me who the most homophobic supervilla was, and I was hard prsed to ci on one om DC Comics — Marvel mak easy, wh how many Leral Nazis hang around that settg — maybe Wonr Woman’s Doctor Psycho?
JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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What wh beg Apollo and Midnighter’s nemis, and his setup as a villa to Jon Kent, soon to be tablished as bisexual, I em Henry Bendix the most homophobic supervilla DC Comics.
“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.
Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did. * nubia dc gay *
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.
GAY. Introduced as Jackson Hy, he is a young, black, gay superhero and the son of Aquaman’s fierct foe, Black Manta.
One of the earlit superhero om DC ics is also retroactively their first gay superhero.