Prr to the 1980s, all ic book characters were assumed to be, and prented as, "straight" heterosexual people. 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. The Comics Co...
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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. * dc queer characters *
“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.
* dc queer characters *
“You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015, ” Grayson ntu.