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Contents:
- BATMAN V SUPERMAN: 11 OF THEIR GAYT MOMENTS
- 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
BATMAN V SUPERMAN: 11 OF THEIR GAYT MOMENTS
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The Authory is one of the newly announced DCU movie projects, likely brgg to the big screen well-known gay versns of Superman and Batman. Some of the first openly gay characters ics, their dynamic will likely be a huge paradigm shift the DCU movi.
Though they were stand-s for the straight ins Superman and Batman, the two were tablished the pag of StormWatch-followup The Authory as beg a gay uple.
This was a few years after Marvel hero Northstar was revealed as gay, though the fact that the two were so clearly based on the biggt superhero of all time ma much bigger wav. To celebrate the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Jtice, PkNews tak a look at the superhero’ most homoerotic moment.
'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
The Authory is one of the newly announced DCU movie projects, likely brgg to the big screen well-known gay versns of Superman and Batman. * batman superman gay *
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. "He's a good artist -- I'll give him that -- and I'm ol wh guys who are gay, but I want to see superhero savg the world, not pickg each other up, " said the man. RelatedsupermanComic-Congaypta amerislipollajax.