Dan Ferriegel, the hunky actor om Spartac: War of the Damned, talks about playg one of TV's first gay actn hero, survivg the show's btal boot mp, and preparg for those famo same-sex love scen.
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. (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. 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.
‘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 *
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.
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.
This year, Green Lantern Alan Stt returned to his roots as an olr WWII-era hero who has “walked this Earth for a long time, much longer than should have been allotted, ” as he said March’s “Infe Frontier” the same issue, penned by bisexual wrer Jam Tynn IV, the gray-haired rg-slger out as gay to his adult children, the superhero duo Ja and Obsidian.
GAY ACTN HERO?
Gay characters have ma their way to mastream movi, but there's yet to be a lead gay actn hero. * gay action heroes *
”Capta Ameri"The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri" ic book verMarvelIn June, Marvel’s “The Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” miseri hs stor, troducg rears to a variety of everyday people om all walks of life who’ve taken up the mantle of Capta Ameri to fend their is gay teenager Aaron Fischer, “the Capta Ameri of the Railways, ” scribed a release as “a fearls teen who stepped up to protect fellow naways and the unhoed. “I am happy to be able to prent an openly gay person who admir Capta Ameri and fights agast evil to help those who are almost visible to society, ” Bazaldua said a statement. And most recently that romance clud the love story that began last season between two gay rebel warrrs, Agron (played by Dan Ferriegel) and Nasir (Pana Hema-Taylor) the Spartac's fal season, Spartac: War of the Damned, premierg tonight at 9 p.
On STARZ, hunky Dan Ferriegel recently spoke about his preparatn for scen between his character and Nasir, survivg the show's tense physil trag regimen, and playg one of TV's first gay actn one particular moment, Ferriegelelegantly explas why he's glad his character is able to open up and have a soft, sensual si when he's alone wh the people he lov: "I would've been disappoted if all they red about was two guys havg sex and keepg their relatnship purely physil. Matt Bomer has ma a reer of playg gay characters and changg reprentatn film through movi such as The Normal Heart, Boys the Band, and Amerin Horror Story. It was only appropriate that he was st to be the openly gay hero the Ray CW's animated short Freedom Fighters: The Ray before dawng the helmet live-actn.
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 *
His time as the Ray was short but seeg him act out a relatnship wh the openly gay actor Wentworth Miller returng as Capta Cold was heartwarmg to watch. While the plete absence of gay men actn films for the longt time is unrstandable, though disappotg, om a historil perspective, the perd for unrstandg end s ago. The lack of gay actn stars through the '70s and '80s should e as no surprise, nsirg gay people were classified as havg a “psychiatric disorr” by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn om 1952-1973 (at which pot "gay" was downgrad to mere "sexual orientatn disturbance.
There were certaly gay ins and hero the real world sense before beg gay was given the stamp of sany early ‘70s (Waters’ himself surely earned that signatn), but nothg when to onscreen man of actn kd of reprentatn.
But the new lennium surely had to brg wh at least one garish, over the top Die Hard on Gay Cise that’d be looked back on as very problematic one day.