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Contents:
- WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
- ‘DIVERGENT’ STAR THEO JAM ON GAY ACTN HERO, FILM'S BISEXUAL UNRTON: ‘I CAN SEE IT’
- GAY ACTN HERO?
- THE GAY ACTN HERO ON SPARTAC IS BACK
WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A GAY ACTN HERO YET?
From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * gay action heroes *
We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in.
‘DIVERGENT’ STAR THEO JAM ON GAY ACTN HERO, FILM'S BISEXUAL UNRTON: ‘I CAN SEE IT’
Dan Ferriegel, the hunky actor om 'Spartac: War of the Damned,' talks about playg one of TV’s first gay actn hero * gay action heroes *
(CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch. Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.
GAY ACTN HERO?
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The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda. In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.
THE GAY ACTN HERO ON SPARTAC IS BACK
“Divergent” star Theo Jam may be hookg up wh Shailene Woodley Lnsgate's latt YA novel adaptatn, but he agreed that the movie about outsirs secretly livg a five-factn society uld be terpreted as a gay allegory. That's an tertg parallel to make,” Jam told the Advote when a reporter proposed that the PG-13 thriller uld be terpreted as a metaphor for the acceptance of bisexualy. “Divergent,” based on thor Veroni Roth's novel of the same name, follows a 16-year-old (Woodley) as she prepar to enter one of five factns – Abnegatn (selflsns), Amy (peacefulns), Candor (honty), Dntls (urage), and Ede (telligence) — only to disver her personaly don't f any of them particular, and she is actually a member of an endangered social class of futuristic cizens lled Divergents. * gay action heroes *
When Jordan’s Green Lantern buted 1959, Stt was relegated to an alternate universe and, over the s, he’s retired, returned to crime-fightg, been tossed limbo, bee an elr statman, and been rebooted as a young gay crimefighter on yet another alternate Earth.