PHOTOS: 'Up, Up And I'm Gay': Comic Artist Joe Phillips Brgs Superhero Out Of The Closet
Contents:
- 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
- BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
- BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
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Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. In March, Marvel unveiled their first gay Capta Ameri character — a queer youth advote named Aaron Fischer — to be clud the upg “Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” ic book miseri.
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BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
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Fredric Wertham wrote "Sctn Of The Innocent, " a book that alleged, among other thgs, that Wonr Woman was a lbian and that Batman and Rob were gay lovers. Although Wertham's allegatns have been long been ridiculed by the ics muny, some dtry sirs like Joe Phillips see a gay subtext throughout the superhero genre.
He says he's fascated by the unrlyg "gayns" of the superhero, and he's takg out of the closet and to a seri of patgs he lls "Beefke Hero, " currently on display at a San Diego art gallery. Strange, Superman and Capta Ameri barg their oiled, rippled physiqu eher tight jockey shorts or sktight spanx and wearg e hher looks more mon gay magaz like Blue Boy than, say, the pag of "Superboy.
"Although the typil rear of a superhero ic is tagged as a heterosexual young adult male, Phillips says the characters have also had a big fluence on the gay muny. "Although Phillips is openly gay, Salazar adms puttg a gay-iendly sp on popular superhero is an act of bravery sce he still works the dtry.
BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
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Lookg past the tastels jok about Bce spendg all of his time wh an old Brish man and a speedo-clad boy he kept a ve, there has always been a homoerotic subtext to Batman. In a 2012 Playboy terview, Morrison said “Gayns is built to Batman. I’m not g gay the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay.
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
Obvly, as a fictnal character, he’s tend to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole ncept is utterly gay. This new wave of ercive censorship forced the hands of creators to keep thgs subtextual and give their hero a stone-ld se of the “not gays. She served as Batman’s love tert for a few years, specifilly orr to fend off mors that Bce was gay.
“He’d be much healthier if he were gay, ” Miller said. The few attempts at creatg a gay character were more often than not handled poorly. DC Comics buted Extraño, a gay magician hero, 1988.
He embodied typil stereotyp of a homosexual man and was eventually killed by way of an HIV fectn while battlg Hemo-Gobl the AIDS vampire. Wh the backlash to Joel Schumacher’s 1997 Batman & Rob for “beg too gay” and darg to put nippl the Bat-su, DC kept non-hetero romance far away om the ics.