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.
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GAY CHIK!- LGBT SUPERHERO
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A lorful group of experienced gay superhero is termed to jo the limelight, spe a mega-popular televangelist hellbent on stroyg them all. * super gay comics *
“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.
In 2015, origal X-Man Bobby Drake was revealed to be gay, makg him retroactively one of the olst queer characters mastream ics. 772 Rults for Gay Comic Strips.