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Reports me om Bleedg Cool yterday that Brett Booth and Stt Lobll will be troducg an outwardly gay character their upg re-lnch of Teen Tans, as a member of the team. Seen solicatns unr the moniker of the Wall, the character’s name has sce been changed to Bunker. His powers are as yet unknown, but given his nam and the ver of Teen Tans #3, appears that they are fensive nature, wh the hero beg able to create barriers and other nstcts.

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WAS JERICHO OF THE TEEN TANS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?

In the latt Comic Book Legends Revealed, fd out whether the Teen Tan known as Jericho was origally gog to be gay * teen titans gay *

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There’s one Tan that already is gay, that we’ve talked about brgg on — probably next season. Bunker, who is openly gay, has the abily to create psnic energy nstcts, which often manift as purple bricks he n e to attack enemi or protect himself as armor.

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.

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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?

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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. " 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.

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