Not Jt Queer Cod, The Disney Villas Were Digned by a Gay Man

Contents:

• 7 RUL FOR MAKG A MORN GAY VILLA
• THE FLASH CASTS BI ACTOR TO PLAY GAY DC COMICS VILLA
• WHY SO MANY DISNEY VILLAS SOUND 'GAY'

7 RUL FOR MAKG A MORN GAY VILLA

“Back the not-so-distant past, one of the quickt trop televisn and film makers ed to mark a character as a villa was to saddle them wh a bunch of cliché, homosexual stereotyp (bee we’re all viant villas, am I right?! ), ” teacher and artist Terra Necsary wrote for “But stead of learng how bad is to be swishy and fabulo, all you got was a generatn of gay kids wh evil role mols.

From gay martial arts masters and lbian tectiv to badass bisexual antihero and transgenr magicians, the are 65 characters that've left their mark and helped change the genre. Origally troduced 1956 to silence crics who claimed Batman and Rob were gay lovers, Kate Kane was retroduced 2006 as a lbian who beme one of Gotham's ped crime fighters after her service the U.

THE FLASH CASTS BI ACTOR TO PLAY GAY DC COMICS VILLA

The first gay male superhero to headle a mass-market ic, Midnighter posss the abily to analyze all possible scenars before a fight begs. The origal Green Lantern troduced 1940, Alan Stt, was reimaged 2012 as an out gay hero who ris an alternate universe known as Earth 2, where he riv his powers om a mystil elemental force named "the Green.

The first superhero to utter the words "I am gay" the pag of a mastream ic (1992's Alpha Flight #106) ma history once more 20 years later when he married his partner, Kyle, Astonishg X-Men #51 -- the first same-sex weddg the Marvel Universe. As one of the few out gay teen superhero morn ics, Hulklg (along wh his boyiend and teammate Wicn) quickly beme one of the biggt LGBT ins the Marvel Universe. A young Bobby Drake om the past, displaced time and fightg crime the prent day, was revealed to be gay after his psychic teammate Jean Grey read his md and nonted him about his sexualy All-New X-Men #40.

Created by ics legend Stan Lee 1955, the Rawhi Kid was reimaged by wrer Ron Zimmerman the 2003 miseri Slap Leather and was picted as a mpy gay gunslger who viewed the Old Wt through a morn queer lens. Though DC Comics was unable to explicly scribe Extrano as gay when he first appeared Millennium #2, the Hispanic magician was d wh many stereotyp that have been associated wh gay men to signal rears that the first gay hero the DC Universe had arrived.

WHY SO MANY DISNEY VILLAS SOUND 'GAY'

Throughout the '30s, '40s and '50s, the public perceptn of gays and lbians was that they were sick and disturbed -- and therefore dangero.

While overt referenc to homosexualy were long prohibed film, skilled filmmakers created characters that displayed subtle yet clearly queer one handled this more ftly than director Aled Hchck, the master of spense and psychosexual anxiety -- who often st closeted gay actors gay-ish rol. This stereotype of an effemate villa (seen four more tim on this list) taps to the viewer's homophobia -- makg pecially gratifyg to see them feated by the more macho hero.

Damagg StereotypeWaldo Lycker -- Lra (1944)Gay actor Clifton Webb is at his most bchy and ntrollg as the evil queen who attempts to transform Gene Tierney's myster and tular Lra. Damagg StereotypePhilip and Brandon -- Rope (1948)Farley Granger and John Dall star this fictnal variatn on the real-life Leopold and Loeb se -- a story of two upper-class gay guys who m a murr jt for kicks. Hch Knows BtAddison DeWt -- All About Eve (1950)Gee Sanrs earned a Bt Supportg Actor Osr as the manipulative queen bch theater cric, spirg a generatn of wty, evil, proto-gay villas.

Evil But Awome{C}Bno Anthony -- Strangers on a Tra (1951)Robert Walker is a psychotic gay sociale who nvc Farley Granger's tennis pro to swap murrs.