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The new Aquaman who appeared Young Jtice: Outsirs was also nfirmed to be a gay character 2019, ScreenRant reported at the time, and a wrer for DC Comics said durg an terview wh Comisy 2016 that Wonr Woman is the summer of 2019, CNN reported Valkyrie beme the first LGBTQ character to appear a Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunr. Marvel Comics' first superhero to e out as gay was Northstar, a move the Tim praised an article published early 1992.

I remember when Batwoman beme the pany’s first gay character to headle a book 2009, and Midnighter beme DC’s first solo seri for a gay man 2015, and the long stretch of the 2010s when Wonr Woman, and Harley Qun, and Poison Ivy, and John Constante were fally allowed to be irrevobly queer. So, wh that said, is Superman gay, bisexual, or straight? Of urse, while there have been gay and bisexual characters before, this is the first time that a poster boy character like Superman was revealed to be gay or bisexual.

Eltaeb was thrilled to see the end of the gay Superman seri. ClaimThe DC Comics character Superman was changed to be a gay man October this fact check? Predictably, some on social media plaed, falsely, that the origal Superman had been “turned gay.

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”Republin lawmaker Wendy Rogers, an Arizona state senator, was roundly mocked onle after smearg the character on Twter by g a “gay lisp” joke. Hollywood is tryg to make Superman gay and he is not. As the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn has explaed:For example, referrg to two married women as a “lbian uple” whout nsirg that one or both women intifi as bi.

Consirg a bisexual person eher gay or straight pendg on the sex of the person’s partner, or llg bisexuals “alli” to the LGBT muny, are also forms of bi erasure. Bisexual erasure plays a cril role rcg the muny’s visibily, and turn rcg accs to the rourc and support opportuni bisexual people so sperately Amerin Instute of Bisexualy has also argued that the practice is relatively recent:It was only when “homosexual” and “gay” beme mon labels morn society that the parative absence of “bisexual” and “bi” om polil disurse beme apparent. Rather than the label “homosexualy” applyg only those wh solely same-sex attractns, those who had both same and other-sex attractns also got swept up the “homosexual” label rather than beg acknowledged as “bisexual”.

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In other words, “homosexual”, and, eventually, “gay”, evolved as the flt labels polil disurse for everyone who engag same-sex timacy, whether or not they also have different-sex romantic partners and one public example of rrectg an erasure attempt, actrs Anna Pacqu attracted prs verage 2014 when televisn prenter Larry Kg asked her if she was a “non-practicg bisexual” bee her hband, Stephen Moyer, is a cis-genr man. And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay.

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Greg Berlanti, who produced The CW's Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightng and Batwoman, relat Superpowered how the 1990 The Flash TV show particular spired him as a gay youth.