In ntemporary ics, there is much more queer reprentatn than the past. While not perfect, there are tons of ic seri wh progrsive, gay ...
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10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
* gay comic characters *
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.
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. A teenaged versn of Iceman who has been pulled out of time has his md read by the telepath, outg that he is gay.
A CHRONOLOGY OF GAY COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS
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.
Northstar holds the tle of the first openly gay superhero ever. HIV and AIDS were nng rampant the gay muny as fear and paranoia ran rampant for the misrmed, unted, and willfully ignorant. This prompted him to e out as gay, for the sake of promotg visibily of the muny and the hope would spire the public to take more of an tert HIV preventn.