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.
Contents:
- IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
- IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
- SUPERMAN IS GAY
IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
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'You do you':People share their emotnal stori to help others on Natnal Comg Out DayNatnal Comg Out Day:Publicly gay pro baseball player creat support group for othersJon Kent's same-sex relatnship is also not the only parture om the origal Superman’s life, The New York Tim noted. This is a dynamic which led homophobic cric Fredric Wertham to suggt the 1950s that superhero (pecially Batman and Rob) promoted homosexualy through their privilegg of male/male bonds.
IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
Created 1998, Apollo and Midnighter were among the first married gay upl superhero ics — and they were totally parodi of Batman and Superman. Now, thanks to DC Comics ntuy, the four characters fally met face to face. * supermen gay *
The pot here isn’t that Superman was really gay those early ics. But the obssn wh double inty and disavowed sire do suggt that the character has been built on anxieti about homosexualy and masculy.
SUPERMAN IS GAY
) But at the same time, refg to date women also mak Superman ls than fully male a homophobic, misogynist culture which se homosexualy as feme and therefore lser. There are superhero stori over the years, though, that have qutned the genre’s terlked mments to homosexual panic and to vlence.
Superman, many of his eratns, is most sred not of Kryptone but of femy, which has stereotypilly been lumped together wh homosexualy.