Yay, Superman is gay and proud! Largely due to his global repute, the Man of Steel ss at the top of LGBTQ+ superhero ic books.
Contents:
- 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
- WHY YOUR COMICS ARE GETTG GAYER
- THREE GAY/BISEXUAL MALE SUPERHERO IN ONE DC COMIC? WELE TO 2022
10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
“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.”. “You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015,” Grayson ntu. A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and ut gture, but every gture tak on outsized meang when speakg out is self a source of fear.
From gay martial arts masters and lbian tectiv to badass bisexual antihero and transgenr magicians, the are 52 characters that’ve left their mark and helped change the genre. Origally troduced 1956 to silence crics who claimed Batman and Rob were gay lovers, Kate Kane was retroduced 2006 as a lbian who beme one of Gotham’s ped crime fighters after her service the U. Midnighter (Gay).
WHY YOUR COMICS ARE GETTG GAYER
The first gay male superhero to headle a mass-market ic, Midnighter posss the abily to analyze all possible scenars before a fight begs. Apollo (Gay). Green Lantern (Gay).
The origal Green Lantern troduced 1940, Alan Stt, was reimaged 2012 as an out gay hero who ris an alternate universe known as Earth 2, where he riv his powers om a mystil elemental force named “the Green. Northstar (Gay). The first superhero to utter the words “I am gay” the pag of a mastream ic (1992’s Alpha Flight #106) ma history once more 20 years later when he married his partner, Kyle, Astonishg X-Men #51 — the first same-sex weddg the Marvel Universe.
THREE GAY/BISEXUAL MALE SUPERHERO IN ONE DC COMIC? WELE TO 2022
Wicn (Gay).