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Contents:
- 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
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JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
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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.
He is not the only queer Green Lantern, sharg that wh Jo Mulle – nor is he the only one even his fay sce his son Todd Rice aka Obsidian is also gay. Intertgly, the origal Batwoman, Kathy Kane, was allegedly troduced as Batman’s love tert to stave off allegatns that he was gay. 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.
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