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Contents:

• GAY COMIC STRIPS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX
• GAY COMICS
• GAY COMIX » 14 ISSU
• TAG: GAY COMICS

GAY COMIC STRIPS

Web-Weaver – the very first gay, male Spir-Man – was troduced to fans back early July through Steve Foxe,. Marvel has jt buted their very first gay Spir-Man named Web-Weaver — a fashn signer that isn’t aaid to take. This week, we return to the archiv for another examatn of the historilly important Gay Comix.

Here’s somethg that’ll have homophobic ic fans othg at the mouth but the rt of jumpg for joy: Superman. Japane ics, or manga, are replete wh same-sex pairgs – but are they actually as gay as wtern rears might. ‘Tom Holland gay sex ma me google The Crowd Room real quick, ’ another trigued viewer shared.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene. She wore a red sequned drs and my head her hair was bigger than Dolly Parton’s, although is highly likely that uld be me leang to the gay fantasy.

While eventually I would e to realise I am also a gay man, long before my gay shame me the shame of beg a boy whose bt iend was a Barbie.

"However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter. The Comics Co Authory banned any suggtns of homosexualy ic books until 1989 Ameri, and wasn't until the 2000s that LGBT characters started to feature more stand-alone stori. Northstar, real name Jean-Pl Bebier, is one of the first openly gay characters Amerin ic book history.

TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE

The character buted durg the height of the AIDS sre and was explicly stated as gay 1992's Alpha Flight #106. However, the wrers scrapped that ia and cid to pursue an openly gay relatnship between the characters. Bobby Drake's sexualy was never addrsed then, though he has sce e out as gay after an altertn wh Jean Grey 2015's All-New X-Men.

GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX

A teenaged versn of Iceman who has been pulled out of time has his md read by the telepath, outg that he is gay. Apollo is another of Marvel's first openly gay characters, origally butg the Stormwatch seri. Durg a drastic DC reboot, his character was revealed to be gay Jam Robson's Earth-Two seri.

As Immanuel attempts to fill the large sho left by his father, he fds his attentn beg drawn to his new, handsome bodyguard spe of the fact that Tliga isn’t exactly a gay-iendly environment. This year was announced that Marvel will feature s first openly gay character the upg The Eternals movie, but back the ‘80s there was one ic book already leadg the charge. First published 1980 Gay Comix featured work and stori by the LGBTQ+ muny that foced on issu not discsed mastream prs and provid much need rmatn at a time when the AIDS crisis was never far om md.

” Shortly after this, was announced that Marvel’s upg flick The Eternals would feature the first openly gay superhero, played by Brian Tyree Henry.

GAY COMICS

“As a publisher a field domated by whe men, I enuraged work om women and mory rtoonists but by the late ‘70s was still very rare to see work by openly gay rtoonists. Simply named Gay Comix (the X was a nnotatn for the unrground culture), had exclively queer storyl and was produced almost entirely by gay men and women.

GAY COMIX » 14 ISSU

It proudly brandished the tag le: “Lbians and Gay Men Put It On Paper!

“As a publisher a field domated, like so much, by whe men, I enuraged work om women and mory rtoonists but by the late ‘70s was still very rare to see work by openly gay rtoonists, ” Denis explas. “I had noticed a gay artist named Headrack appearg Barefootz, and occurred to me that Headrack might be an tobgraphil element.

I proposed a ix anthology by gay rtoonists and asked if he would nsir edg .

TAG: GAY COMICS

”“Howard nfsed that he didn’t know any other gay rtoonists, ” Denis ntu. So we agreed that I’d send out a form letter on Kchen Sk statnery to every artist my rolox, announcg Gay Comix and askg any gay men, lbians, and bisexual rtoonists to send submissns to Howard.

” Howard Cse (who sadly passed away 2019) was arguably the backbone of the Gay Comix. It was the first stance which he had openly addrsed his own sexualy his work, and led him to create the acclaimed strip Wenl (for gay publitn The Advote), which told the story of a gay man and his partner Ollie.

It also gave him a platform to addrs many subjects which directly affected his muny, cludg AIDS, gay rights monstratns and gay bashg. For many, Gay Comix beme not only a source of entertament, but a place where you uld fd val rmatn about gay life the ‘80s. After five years of prtg, Denis found that the st of producg Gay Comix was disproportnately higher than any of the other tl that he published, part due to the plex distributn system and distct mailg vic that were entirely separate om the other ics unr the Kchen Sk Prs umbrella.