Marvel Gay Superhero: The 8 Most Likely Candidat to Queer the MCU – IndieWire

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• COMG OUT AS GAY SUPERHERO
• BLEEDG FOOLCOMIC BOOK NEWS, FILM REVIEWS AND GEEK-CULTURE AS WELL AS THE FARCE, FOLLY, AND FIAS SURROUNDG ALL!(FUNCTN(W,D,S,I){W.LDADIN=W.LDADIN||[];({SLOT:12731610244260710,SIZE:[0, 0],ID:"LD-122-4412"});IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT(S),P=D.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME(S)[0];;"//";;SERTBEFORE(J,P);}})(WDOW,DOCUMENT,"SCRIPT","LD-AJS"); SKIP TO NTENTHOMENEWS + OPINIONSMOVIES/TV/STREAMINGCOMICS & BOOKSRPG & VIDEO-GAMESABOUT USSHOP SEARCH FOR: SEARCHSUPERMAN COM OUT: WHY SO MANY DC SUPERHERO ARE SUDNLY GAY TODD FISHER OCTOBER 11, 2021            IN SE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, JONATHAN KENT, THE SON OF LOIS LANE AND CLARK KENT (AKA SUPERMAN), HAS BEEN OUTED AS BISEXUAL. SOME PEOPLE SAY “GAY,” AND TECHNILLY I SUPPOSE THAT’S RRECT SCE HE HASN’T BEEN WH ANY GIRLS SO FAR. AND, SE YOU WERE WONRG WHETHER HE WAS JT EXPERIMENTG WH HIS SEXUALY OR WAS CERTA HE WAS BI, DC COMICS NFIRMED .  (FUNCTN(W,D,S,I){W.LDADIN=W.LDADIN||[];({SLOT:12731610244260710,SIZE:[0, 0],ID:"LD-122-4412"});IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT(S),P=D.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME(S)[0];;"//";;SERTBEFORE(J,P);}})(WDOW,DOCUMENT,"SCRIPT","LD-AJS");ON NOVEMBER 9TH, THE LIFE OF JON KENT, THE SUPERMAN OF EARTH AND SON OF CLARK KENT AND LOIS LANE, TAK A BOLD NEW DIRECTN.“I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO AND I’M VERY GRATEFUL DC AND WARNER BROS. SHARE THIS IA,” SAID WRER TOM TAYLOR. “SUPERMAN’S SYMBOL HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR HOPE, FOR TTH AND FOR JTICE. TODAY, THAT SYMBOL REPRENTS SOMETHG MORE. TODAY, MORE PEOPLE N SEE THEMSELV THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERHERO ICS.”JT LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE HIM, JON KENT HAS FALLEN FOR A REPORTER. AFTER IALLY STRIKG UP A IENDSHIP WH REPORTER JAY NAKAMURA, HE AND JON BEE ROMANTILLY VOLVED THE PAG OF SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #5 OM WRER TOM TAYLOR (DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL) AND ARTIST JOHN TIMMS (HARLEY QUINN). FOLLOWG A SCENE WHERE SUPERMAN MENTALLY AND PHYSILLY BURNS OUT OM TRYG TO SAVE EVERYONE THAT HE N, JAY IS THERE TO RE FOR THE MAN OF STEEL. THERE’S REALLY NOTHG “BOLD” ABOUT THIS. IT’S PURELY ANOTHER ACT OF THE FAIAR, CYNIL PANRG THAT DC HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEGUN TO BEE KNOWN FOR, WHICH SHOULD BE OBV ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT DROPPED TODAY, WHICH JT HAPPENS TO BE NATNAL COMG OUT DAY. THIS IS ACTUALLY OLD NEWS IF YOU’VE BEEN READG BLEEDG FOOL FOR THE LAST UPLE OF MONTHS. DC QUEERG SUPERMAN NEXT? WHY ALL DC COMICS SUPERHERO ARE GAY WRER TOM TAYLOR TOLD IGN THAT HE’S HAD QUEER CHARACTERS AND STORYL REJECTED BY THE ICS DTRY OVER THE YEARS, SO WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO WRE A NEW ISSUE OF “SUPERMAN,” HE CID TO MAKE THE MAN OF STEEL A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. “I KNEW REPLACG CLARK WH ANOTHER STRAIGHT WHE SAVR ULD BE A REAL OPPORTUNY MISSED,” TAYLOR SAID. “I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO. TODAY, SUPERMAN, THE STRONGT SUPERHERO ON THE PLA, IS G OUT.” WHAT A JOKE THIS GUY IS. HIS BIG IA WAS TAKG ANOTHER TABLISHED CHARACTER AND CHANGG THEM TO F HIS POLIL WHIMS. BUT THIS SHOULDN’T BE NEWS TO OUR REARS. WE’VE REPORTED ON THIS ALREADY, AND FACT, ETHAN VAN SCIVER, THE CREATOR OF CYBEROG BROKE THIS NEWS MONTHS AGO, AND ’S PART OF THE REASON MANY CREATIV LEFT DC. CLARK KENT IS GOG AWAY. JONATHAN KENT IS TAKG OVER, AND THEY’RE ANNOUNCG HE’S GAY. #SUPERMANISGAY— TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE MEDIA (@ETHANVANSCIVER) AUGT 18, 2021 IF ’S NOT OBV TO YOU THAT THIS IS JT PANRG, YOU MAY HAVE MISSED HOW AUGT DC COMICS PROUDLY ANNOUNCED THAT FORMER BATMAN SI-KICK TIM DRAKE WAS G OUT AS BISEXUAL. THE MONTH PRR, DC COMICS CELEBRATED PRI MONTH WH A MEMORATIVE (AND POORLY SELLG) ISSUE THAT TRODUCED THE WORLD TO JTICE LEAGUE QUEER, AN AD-HOC TEAM OF LGBTQIA+ HERO FORMED BY GREGOR LA VEGA TO FIGHT OFF ECLIPSO WHEN HE ATTACKED A PRI PARA. I’M NOT KIDDG.  CLARK KENT HAS BEEN EXILED TO ANOTHER PLA, AND WILL BE OUT OF THE PICTURE FOR A WHILE, SO TECHNILLY, JONATHAN KENT IS DC COMICS’ SUPERMAN CURRENT NTUY.  THE TREND OF ICS BEG ED TO MAKE SOCIAL STATEMENTS, PECIALLY THE AREA OF HOMOSEXUALY, HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR A WHILE, PROBABLY SCE THE EARLY 1990S. IN THE MARCH 1992 ISSUE OF MARVEL’S ALPHA FLIGHT IC BOOK SERI, NORTHSTAR, CIS TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET AFTER SEEG THE RAVAGG EFFECT THAT AIDS HAS HAD ON AN ABANDONED BABY. BUT DC COMICS WAS AT THE FOREONT OF THIS, HAVG TRODUCED THEIR FIRST HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTER — THE PIED PIPER — AND CLUD AIDS‑RELATED THEM THEIR FLASH SERI AUGT 1991. BATWOMAN, IALLY SCRIBED AS “A ‘LIPSTICK LBIAN’ WHO MOONLIGHTS AS A CRIME FIGHTER,” WAS LATER TRODUCED 2006. GAY ENOUGH? DC COMICS PROMOT ‘DC PRI’ BOOKS THIS SUMMER GREG RUCKA REBOOTED WONR WOMAN WONR WOMAN: YEAR ONE WHICH HIGHLIGHTED HER TIME ON THEMYSCIRA, CLUDG HER MANY RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER AMAZON WOMEN. THE IC ALSO SHOWED THAT DIANA WAS POLYAMORO AND ONE OF THE MAJOR PLOT THREADS OF THE SERI VOLVED A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ETTA CANDY AND DR. BARBARA ANN MERVA.  SCE THEN WE’VE GOTTEN A GAY GREEN LANTERN, A GAY AQUAMAN HAS TAKEN OVER THAT TLE, AND NEW WE HAVE A NON-BARY FLASH. MAYBE THAT JTICE LEAGUE QUEER TEAM IS REALLY GOG TO BEE A REALY AFTER ALL? IT’S STILL UNCLEAR WHY THERE HAS BEEN SUCH A RECENT PH FOR SEVERAL NEW, TRANSNED, AND REIMAGED HOMOSEXUAL “SUPERHERO” AT DC (AND MARVEL COMICS ALSO), BUT I’M BEGNG TO WONR IF THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE ACCTOMED TO SEEG HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTERS A HEROIC LIGHT OR POSNS OF THORY. AND IF SO, WHY? IT’S BEG NSPICUO THAT THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY CHRISTIAN-FAH FOLLOWG SUPERHERO. AND IS ANYONE EXPECTG TO SEE BATWOMAN SUDNLY FD GOD AND CIDG TO SETTLE DOWN WH A STRAIGHT MAN AND START A FAY? THAT MIGHT E A TWTER MELTDOWN. I’M NOT SUGGTG THEY SERT FAH AND POLICS TO ICS, I’D PREFER THEY DIDN’T, BUT ’S BEEN ONE-SID FOR TOO LONG. AGENDA CONFIRMED: GAY ACTIVIST TV CREATORS ADM TO PROGRAMMG KIDS WE ALREADY KNOW THAT CREATORS THE ANIMATN AND TELEVISN REALM HAVE A SIAR AGENDA, AND WE’RE WELL AWARE THAT DC COMICS’ NEW LEARSHIP ARE HARD LEFT PARTISANS. MARIE JAVS, THE NEWT EDOR--CHIEF IS A VERY VOL BIG SUPPORTER OF LIBERAL . AND DANIEL CHERRY III, THEIR LATT SVP, IS A PROMENT LGBTQ ACTIVIST, WHO RECENTLY HAD THE FOLLOWG TO SAY ABOUT THE DIRECTN DC’S GOG TO BE TAKG MOVG FORWARD: “WHILE ALWAYS RPECTG THE PAST, I ALSO THK ’S OUR RPONSIBILY TO LEVERAGE THE CULTURAL POWER OF DC COMICS AND OUR CHARACTERS TO ENTERTA AND SPIRE AN CREASGLY DIVERSE GLOBAL FAN BASE. COMICS HAVE THE UNIQUE POWER TO CREATE RONANT IMAGERY AND NARRATIV THAT N MOVE THE WORLD TOWARD A BETTER, MORE CLIVE VERSN OF SELF.” OH, AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO SUGGT THERE’S AN AGENDA THEY ARE TRYG TO PROMOTE? AND THAT THERE’S NO ATTEMPT TO DOCTRATE OR FLUENCE THE REARS?  THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM WH GAY CHARACTERS. IF THEY ARE WELL-WRTEN AND THE STORI HAPPEN ANILLY, BUT THEY EQUENTLY ARE NOT. THIS IS NO LONGER ABOUT GOOD STORI. IT’S AGENDA DRIVEN, AND THE NUMBERS BEAR THAT OUT. WRER JASE PEEPL RECENTLY NOTED THAT, “LGBT HERO AND VILLAS HAVE BEEN MAKG THE REALM OF SUPERHERO A MORE LORFUL PLACE FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS. FROM GAY MARTIAL ARTS MASTERS AND LBIAN TECTIV TO BAD-SS BISEXUAL ANTIHERO AND TRANSGENR MAGICIANS, THE ARE 65 CHARACTERS THAT’VE LEFT THEIR MARK AND HELPED CHANGE THE GENRE.” ACRDG TO DC’S WEBSE, THEY HAVE NEARLY 200 LGBTQ CHARACTERS, ALTHOUGH MANY OF THEM ARE RIVATIV. PHG FOR MORE AND MORE GAY NVERSNS REALLY SEEMS LIKE AN ODD STRATEGY WHEN A ONLY 5% OF THE US POPULATN INTIFI AS LGBTQ. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT’S A VERY, VERY SMALL DIENCE. WOULDN’T PANRG TO CHRISTIANS, WHO MAKE UP AT LEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE US POPULATN, BE A BETTER MONEY-MAKER?  AND YET DC DON’T APPEAR TO HAVE ANY CHRISTIAN CHARACTERS, OR AT LEAST NONE THEY WILLFULLY PROMOTE. AND ’S JT HAPPENSTANCE THAT THE FIRST, MAJOR TRANSGENR SUPERHERO WAS ANNOUNCED MARVEL COMICS FOR DISNEY. HOW MANY CHARACTERS THAT POE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OR SUPPORT NSERVATIVE VALU ARE THERE AGA? NO AGENDA AT ALL. MARVEL & DISNEY+ INTRODUCE FIRST TRANSGENR SUPERHERO TO CHILDREN THIS GAY NVERSN THERAPY OF THEIR MALE SUPERHERO IS THE NATURAL RULT OF LEARSHIP CHANG AT THE ICS PUBLISHER. AND AFTER THIS SAL GIMMICK FAILS TO GENERATE THE NUMBERS THEY NEED TO SURVIVE, WHAT WILL THE NEXT “STUNNG AND BRAVE” SEXUALY NVERSN BE? AND HOW, IF EVER, N THEY WALK THIS BACK? IT’S TE THAT MARVEL MAY PULLED OFF A WALK-BACK WH NORTHSTAR. AFTER WOLVERE KILLED HIM, I DON’T THK HIS SEXUALY HAS BEEN MENTNED SCE HE ME BACK. WE’LL SEE HOW LONG THAT LASTS.. OF URSE, NORTHSTAR ISN’T ON THE SAME LEVEL AS SUPERMAN. (EDOR: NORTHSTAR’S HBAND KYLE JADU HAS BEEN APPEARG REGULARLY MARS AND WAS MARVEL’S VOIC: PRI IC) MT BE SOMETHG THE WATER OF THE DC UNIVERSE. DIDN’T TIM DRAKE JT DO THE SAME A FEW WEEKS AGO? ANYONE LOOKG TO THIS EXTRAORDARY PHENOMENA AND WHAT MIGHT BE G ? — BLEEDG FOOL (@BLEEDGFOOL) OCTOBER 11, 2021 SEVERAL ICS-RELATED YOUTUBE MENTERS WEIGHED ON THE NEWS TODAY:THIS IS A NOT A SER PANYWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE THE APATHY OF SUPERMAN AND MAKG HIM GAY!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE SUPERMAN JON KENT OFFICIALLY OUT AS BISEXUALWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE DC COMICS SET TO STROY MANGA SAL?! CONFIRMS JON KENT SUPERMAN AND ROB SWG BOTH WAYS!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE GAY SUPERMAN CONFIRMED…TOM TAYLOR GONNA TOM TAYLORWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THERE WAS A MAJOR ICS STORYLE THAT WAS GRABBG MEDIA HEADL? WAS BATMAN GETTG ENGAGED TO CATWOMAN? OR WHEN CAPTA AMERI WAS REVEALED TO BE A SECRET NAZI? AND BEFORE THAT WAS PROBABLY THE SUPERMAN’S DEAD STORYLE.  SOME BLUE HAIR TERN REALLY THOUGH THIS BOOK WOULD “TOTALLY OWN THE CHUDS” BUT NEVER WORKS LIKE THAT.REMEMBER THE NEW WOKE WARRRS? NOBODY BOUGHT AND WAS NCELLED BEFORE PRT. EVERY TIME THE DTRY PUTS OUT A BOOK LIKE THIS ’S FOR RETWEETS, NOT SAL.— THEQUARTERG (@THEQUARTERG) OCTOBER 11, 2021 MARVEL AND DC WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. NOWADAYS ALL THE IC PUBLISHERS N E UP WH IS ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER. YAWN.  NO WONR MANGA IS WNG.   MORE TRENDG STORI:CANADIAN COMICS OPEN LIBRARY FAVORS LGBTQ KIDS CONTENT OVER SUPERHEROCOMICS MM SHOULD FOC ON BETTER STORI THAN THE 'DEATH OF SUPERMAN'CONFIRMED: WHY ‘BLUE BEETLE’ IS TRACKG TO BE NEXT DC SUPERHERO BOMBDC COMICS RETURNG TO SAN DIEGO COMIC CON THIS WEEKSOME OVERRATED SUPERMAN WRERS GETTG FLUFF-COATED COVERAGEJAM GUNN PUTS 'DOOM PATROL' RUMORS TO RT'SUPERMAN: LEGACY' CASTS 'BARRY' ACTOR ANTHONY CARRIGAN AS METAMORPHO            COMIC PERCHDAEL CHERRYDANIEL CHERRY IIIDC COMICSETHAN VAN SCIVERHEEL VS BABYFACEJASE PEEPLJIM LEEJOHN TIMMSJONATHAN KENTLGBTQSUPERBOYSUPERMANTOM TAYLORW DGHERYYELLOW FLASHBLOGSCOMICSNEWS TODD FISHER TODD LIV NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WH "THE WIFE," "THE KIDS," "THE DOGS," "THAT T," AND HE OCSNALLY WEARS PANTS. HIS UPG RELEASE, "ARE YOU WOKE ENOUGH YET?", IS THE CULMATN OF TOO MUCH TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORKG THE FILM DTRY.RELATED POSTS DISNEY TO CEASE RELEASG PHYSIL MEDIA CERTA COUNTRI UK COMIC BOOK LEGEND GIVEN ‘WOKE’ MAKEOVER FOR ‘REPRENTATN’ AMY AWARDS COLUMNIST: ‘SOUND OF FREEDOM’ DERV BT PICTURE NOM WHAT IS J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI’S VISN FOR CAPTA AMERI COMICS? CANADIAN COMICS OPEN LIBRARY FAVORS LGBTQ KIDS CONTENT OVER SUPERHEROJUST KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON
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COMG OUT AS GAY SUPERHERO

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BLEEDG FOOLCOMIC BOOK NEWS, FILM REVIEWS AND GEEK-CULTURE AS WELL AS THE FARCE, FOLLY, AND FIAS SURROUNDG ALL!(FUNCTN(W,D,S,I){W.LDADIN=W.LDADIN||[];({SLOT:12731610244260710,SIZE:[0, 0],ID:"LD-122-4412"});IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT(S),P=D.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME(S)[0];;"//";;SERTBEFORE(J,P);}})(WDOW,DOCUMENT,"SCRIPT","LD-AJS"); SKIP TO NTENTHOMENEWS + OPINIONSMOVIES/TV/STREAMINGCOMICS & BOOKSRPG & VIDEO-GAMESABOUT USSHOP SEARCH FOR: SEARCHSUPERMAN COM OUT: WHY SO MANY DC SUPERHERO ARE SUDNLY GAY TODD FISHER OCTOBER 11, 2021            IN SE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, JONATHAN KENT, THE SON OF LOIS LANE AND CLARK KENT (AKA SUPERMAN), HAS BEEN OUTED AS BISEXUAL. SOME PEOPLE SAY “GAY,” AND TECHNILLY I SUPPOSE THAT’S RRECT SCE HE HASN’T BEEN WH ANY GIRLS SO FAR. AND, SE YOU WERE WONRG WHETHER HE WAS JT EXPERIMENTG WH HIS SEXUALY OR WAS CERTA HE WAS BI, DC COMICS NFIRMED .  (FUNCTN(W,D,S,I){W.LDADIN=W.LDADIN||[];({SLOT:12731610244260710,SIZE:[0, 0],ID:"LD-122-4412"});IF(!D.GETELEMENTBYID(I)){VAR J=D.CREATEELEMENT(S),P=D.GETELEMENTSBYTAGNAME(S)[0];;"//";;SERTBEFORE(J,P);}})(WDOW,DOCUMENT,"SCRIPT","LD-AJS");ON NOVEMBER 9TH, THE LIFE OF JON KENT, THE SUPERMAN OF EARTH AND SON OF CLARK KENT AND LOIS LANE, TAK A BOLD NEW DIRECTN.“I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO AND I’M VERY GRATEFUL DC AND WARNER BROS. SHARE THIS IA,” SAID WRER TOM TAYLOR. “SUPERMAN’S SYMBOL HAS ALWAYS STOOD FOR HOPE, FOR TTH AND FOR JTICE. TODAY, THAT SYMBOL REPRENTS SOMETHG MORE. TODAY, MORE PEOPLE N SEE THEMSELV THE MOST POWERFUL SUPERHERO ICS.”JT LIKE HIS FATHER BEFORE HIM, JON KENT HAS FALLEN FOR A REPORTER. AFTER IALLY STRIKG UP A IENDSHIP WH REPORTER JAY NAKAMURA, HE AND JON BEE ROMANTILLY VOLVED THE PAG OF SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #5 OM WRER TOM TAYLOR (DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL) AND ARTIST JOHN TIMMS (HARLEY QUINN). FOLLOWG A SCENE WHERE SUPERMAN MENTALLY AND PHYSILLY BURNS OUT OM TRYG TO SAVE EVERYONE THAT HE N, JAY IS THERE TO RE FOR THE MAN OF STEEL. THERE’S REALLY NOTHG “BOLD” ABOUT THIS. IT’S PURELY ANOTHER ACT OF THE FAIAR, CYNIL PANRG THAT DC HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEGUN TO BEE KNOWN FOR, WHICH SHOULD BE OBV ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT DROPPED TODAY, WHICH JT HAPPENS TO BE NATNAL COMG OUT DAY. THIS IS ACTUALLY OLD NEWS IF YOU’VE BEEN READG BLEEDG FOOL FOR THE LAST UPLE OF MONTHS. DC QUEERG SUPERMAN NEXT? WHY ALL DC COMICS SUPERHERO ARE GAY WRER TOM TAYLOR TOLD IGN THAT HE’S HAD QUEER CHARACTERS AND STORYL REJECTED BY THE ICS DTRY OVER THE YEARS, SO WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO WRE A NEW ISSUE OF “SUPERMAN,” HE CID TO MAKE THE MAN OF STEEL A MEMBER OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. “I KNEW REPLACG CLARK WH ANOTHER STRAIGHT WHE SAVR ULD BE A REAL OPPORTUNY MISSED,” TAYLOR SAID. “I’VE ALWAYS SAID EVERYONE NEEDS HERO AND EVERYONE SERV TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR HERO. TODAY, SUPERMAN, THE STRONGT SUPERHERO ON THE PLA, IS G OUT.” WHAT A JOKE THIS GUY IS. HIS BIG IA WAS TAKG ANOTHER TABLISHED CHARACTER AND CHANGG THEM TO F HIS POLIL WHIMS. BUT THIS SHOULDN’T BE NEWS TO OUR REARS. WE’VE REPORTED ON THIS ALREADY, AND FACT, ETHAN VAN SCIVER, THE CREATOR OF CYBEROG BROKE THIS NEWS MONTHS AGO, AND ’S PART OF THE REASON MANY CREATIV LEFT DC. CLARK KENT IS GOG AWAY. JONATHAN KENT IS TAKG OVER, AND THEY’RE ANNOUNCG HE’S GAY. #SUPERMANISGAY— TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE MEDIA (@ETHANVANSCIVER) AUGT 18, 2021 IF ’S NOT OBV TO YOU THAT THIS IS JT PANRG, YOU MAY HAVE MISSED HOW AUGT DC COMICS PROUDLY ANNOUNCED THAT FORMER BATMAN SI-KICK TIM DRAKE WAS G OUT AS BISEXUAL. THE MONTH PRR, DC COMICS CELEBRATED PRI MONTH WH A MEMORATIVE (AND POORLY SELLG) ISSUE THAT TRODUCED THE WORLD TO JTICE LEAGUE QUEER, AN AD-HOC TEAM OF LGBTQIA+ HERO FORMED BY GREGOR LA VEGA TO FIGHT OFF ECLIPSO WHEN HE ATTACKED A PRI PARA. I’M NOT KIDDG.  CLARK KENT HAS BEEN EXILED TO ANOTHER PLA, AND WILL BE OUT OF THE PICTURE FOR A WHILE, SO TECHNILLY, JONATHAN KENT IS DC COMICS’ SUPERMAN CURRENT NTUY.  THE TREND OF ICS BEG ED TO MAKE SOCIAL STATEMENTS, PECIALLY THE AREA OF HOMOSEXUALY, HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR A WHILE, PROBABLY SCE THE EARLY 1990S. IN THE MARCH 1992 ISSUE OF MARVEL’S ALPHA FLIGHT IC BOOK SERI, NORTHSTAR, CIS TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET AFTER SEEG THE RAVAGG EFFECT THAT AIDS HAS HAD ON AN ABANDONED BABY. BUT DC COMICS WAS AT THE FOREONT OF THIS, HAVG TRODUCED THEIR FIRST HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTER — THE PIED PIPER — AND CLUD AIDS‑RELATED THEM THEIR FLASH SERI AUGT 1991. BATWOMAN, IALLY SCRIBED AS “A ‘LIPSTICK LBIAN’ WHO MOONLIGHTS AS A CRIME FIGHTER,” WAS LATER TRODUCED 2006. GAY ENOUGH? DC COMICS PROMOT ‘DC PRI’ BOOKS THIS SUMMER GREG RUCKA REBOOTED WONR WOMAN WONR WOMAN: YEAR ONE WHICH HIGHLIGHTED HER TIME ON THEMYSCIRA, CLUDG HER MANY RELATNSHIPS WH OTHER AMAZON WOMEN. THE IC ALSO SHOWED THAT DIANA WAS POLYAMORO AND ONE OF THE MAJOR PLOT THREADS OF THE SERI VOLVED A ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ETTA CANDY AND DR. BARBARA ANN MERVA.  SCE THEN WE’VE GOTTEN A GAY GREEN LANTERN, A GAY AQUAMAN HAS TAKEN OVER THAT TLE, AND NEW WE HAVE A NON-BARY FLASH. MAYBE THAT JTICE LEAGUE QUEER TEAM IS REALLY GOG TO BEE A REALY AFTER ALL? IT’S STILL UNCLEAR WHY THERE HAS BEEN SUCH A RECENT PH FOR SEVERAL NEW, TRANSNED, AND REIMAGED HOMOSEXUAL “SUPERHERO” AT DC (AND MARVEL COMICS ALSO), BUT I’M BEGNG TO WONR IF THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET YOUNG PEOPLE ACCTOMED TO SEEG HOMOSEXUAL CHARACTERS A HEROIC LIGHT OR POSNS OF THORY. AND IF SO, WHY? IT’S BEG NSPICUO THAT THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY CHRISTIAN-FAH FOLLOWG SUPERHERO. AND IS ANYONE EXPECTG TO SEE BATWOMAN SUDNLY FD GOD AND CIDG TO SETTLE DOWN WH A STRAIGHT MAN AND START A FAY? THAT MIGHT E A TWTER MELTDOWN. I’M NOT SUGGTG THEY SERT FAH AND POLICS TO ICS, I’D PREFER THEY DIDN’T, BUT ’S BEEN ONE-SID FOR TOO LONG. AGENDA CONFIRMED: GAY ACTIVIST TV CREATORS ADM TO PROGRAMMG KIDS WE ALREADY KNOW THAT CREATORS THE ANIMATN AND TELEVISN REALM HAVE A SIAR AGENDA, AND WE’RE WELL AWARE THAT DC COMICS’ NEW LEARSHIP ARE HARD LEFT PARTISANS. MARIE JAVS, THE NEWT EDOR--CHIEF IS A VERY VOL BIG SUPPORTER OF LIBERAL . AND DANIEL CHERRY III, THEIR LATT SVP, IS A PROMENT LGBTQ ACTIVIST, WHO RECENTLY HAD THE FOLLOWG TO SAY ABOUT THE DIRECTN DC’S GOG TO BE TAKG MOVG FORWARD: “WHILE ALWAYS RPECTG THE PAST, I ALSO THK ’S OUR RPONSIBILY TO LEVERAGE THE CULTURAL POWER OF DC COMICS AND OUR CHARACTERS TO ENTERTA AND SPIRE AN CREASGLY DIVERSE GLOBAL FAN BASE. COMICS HAVE THE UNIQUE POWER TO CREATE RONANT IMAGERY AND NARRATIV THAT N MOVE THE WORLD TOWARD A BETTER, MORE CLIVE VERSN OF SELF.” OH, AM I NOT SUPPOSED TO SUGGT THERE’S AN AGENDA THEY ARE TRYG TO PROMOTE? AND THAT THERE’S NO ATTEMPT TO DOCTRATE OR FLUENCE THE REARS?  THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM WH GAY CHARACTERS. IF THEY ARE WELL-WRTEN AND THE STORI HAPPEN ANILLY, BUT THEY EQUENTLY ARE NOT. THIS IS NO LONGER ABOUT GOOD STORI. IT’S AGENDA DRIVEN, AND THE NUMBERS BEAR THAT OUT. WRER JASE PEEPL RECENTLY NOTED THAT, “LGBT HERO AND VILLAS HAVE BEEN MAKG THE REALM OF SUPERHERO A MORE LORFUL PLACE FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS. FROM GAY MARTIAL ARTS MASTERS AND LBIAN TECTIV TO BAD-SS BISEXUAL ANTIHERO AND TRANSGENR MAGICIANS, THE ARE 65 CHARACTERS THAT’VE LEFT THEIR MARK AND HELPED CHANGE THE GENRE.” ACRDG TO DC’S WEBSE, THEY HAVE NEARLY 200 LGBTQ CHARACTERS, ALTHOUGH MANY OF THEM ARE RIVATIV. PHG FOR MORE AND MORE GAY NVERSNS REALLY SEEMS LIKE AN ODD STRATEGY WHEN A ONLY 5% OF THE US POPULATN INTIFI AS LGBTQ. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT’S A VERY, VERY SMALL DIENCE. WOULDN’T PANRG TO CHRISTIANS, WHO MAKE UP AT LEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE US POPULATN, BE A BETTER MONEY-MAKER?  AND YET DC DON’T APPEAR TO HAVE ANY CHRISTIAN CHARACTERS, OR AT LEAST NONE THEY WILLFULLY PROMOTE. AND ’S JT HAPPENSTANCE THAT THE FIRST, MAJOR TRANSGENR SUPERHERO WAS ANNOUNCED MARVEL COMICS FOR DISNEY. HOW MANY CHARACTERS THAT POE CHRISTIAN BELIEFS OR SUPPORT NSERVATIVE VALU ARE THERE AGA? NO AGENDA AT ALL. MARVEL & DISNEY+ INTRODUCE FIRST TRANSGENR SUPERHERO TO CHILDREN THIS GAY NVERSN THERAPY OF THEIR MALE SUPERHERO IS THE NATURAL RULT OF LEARSHIP CHANG AT THE ICS PUBLISHER. AND AFTER THIS SAL GIMMICK FAILS TO GENERATE THE NUMBERS THEY NEED TO SURVIVE, WHAT WILL THE NEXT “STUNNG AND BRAVE” SEXUALY NVERSN BE? AND HOW, IF EVER, N THEY WALK THIS BACK? IT’S TE THAT MARVEL MAY PULLED OFF A WALK-BACK WH NORTHSTAR. AFTER WOLVERE KILLED HIM, I DON’T THK HIS SEXUALY HAS BEEN MENTNED SCE HE ME BACK. WE’LL SEE HOW LONG THAT LASTS.. OF URSE, NORTHSTAR ISN’T ON THE SAME LEVEL AS SUPERMAN. (EDOR: NORTHSTAR’S HBAND KYLE JADU HAS BEEN APPEARG REGULARLY MARS AND WAS MARVEL’S VOIC: PRI IC) MT BE SOMETHG THE WATER OF THE DC UNIVERSE. DIDN’T TIM DRAKE JT DO THE SAME A FEW WEEKS AGO? ANYONE LOOKG TO THIS EXTRAORDARY PHENOMENA AND WHAT MIGHT BE G ? — BLEEDG FOOL (@BLEEDGFOOL) OCTOBER 11, 2021 SEVERAL ICS-RELATED YOUTUBE MENTERS WEIGHED ON THE NEWS TODAY:THIS IS A NOT A SER PANYWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE THE APATHY OF SUPERMAN AND MAKG HIM GAY!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE SUPERMAN JON KENT OFFICIALLY OUT AS BISEXUALWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE DC COMICS SET TO STROY MANGA SAL?! CONFIRMS JON KENT SUPERMAN AND ROB SWG BOTH WAYS!WATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE GAY SUPERMAN CONFIRMED…TOM TAYLOR GONNA TOM TAYLORWATCH THIS VIO ON YOUTUBE WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THERE WAS A MAJOR ICS STORYLE THAT WAS GRABBG MEDIA HEADL? WAS BATMAN GETTG ENGAGED TO CATWOMAN? OR WHEN CAPTA AMERI WAS REVEALED TO BE A SECRET NAZI? AND BEFORE THAT WAS PROBABLY THE SUPERMAN’S DEAD STORYLE.  SOME BLUE HAIR TERN REALLY THOUGH THIS BOOK WOULD “TOTALLY OWN THE CHUDS” BUT NEVER WORKS LIKE THAT.REMEMBER THE NEW WOKE WARRRS? NOBODY BOUGHT AND WAS NCELLED BEFORE PRT. EVERY TIME THE DTRY PUTS OUT A BOOK LIKE THIS ’S FOR RETWEETS, NOT SAL.— THEQUARTERG (@THEQUARTERG) OCTOBER 11, 2021 MARVEL AND DC WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. NOWADAYS ALL THE IC PUBLISHERS N E UP WH IS ANOTHER GAY CHARACTER. YAWN.  NO WONR MANGA IS WNG.   MORE TRENDG STORI:CANADIAN COMICS OPEN LIBRARY FAVORS LGBTQ KIDS CONTENT OVER SUPERHEROCOMICS MM SHOULD FOC ON BETTER STORI THAN THE 'DEATH OF SUPERMAN'CONFIRMED: WHY ‘BLUE BEETLE’ IS TRACKG TO BE NEXT DC SUPERHERO BOMBDC COMICS RETURNG TO SAN DIEGO COMIC CON THIS WEEKSOME OVERRATED SUPERMAN WRERS GETTG FLUFF-COATED COVERAGEJAM GUNN PUTS 'DOOM PATROL' RUMORS TO RT'SUPERMAN: LEGACY' CASTS 'BARRY' ACTOR ANTHONY CARRIGAN AS METAMORPHO            COMIC PERCHDAEL CHERRYDANIEL CHERRY IIIDC COMICSETHAN VAN SCIVERHEEL VS BABYFACEJASE PEEPLJIM LEEJOHN TIMMSJONATHAN KENTLGBTQSUPERBOYSUPERMANTOM TAYLORW DGHERYYELLOW FLASHBLOGSCOMICSNEWS TODD FISHER TODD LIV NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WH "THE WIFE," "THE KIDS," "THE DOGS," "THAT T," AND HE OCSNALLY WEARS PANTS. HIS UPG RELEASE, "ARE YOU WOKE ENOUGH YET?", IS THE CULMATN OF TOO MUCH TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORKG THE FILM DTRY.RELATED POSTS DISNEY TO CEASE RELEASG PHYSIL MEDIA CERTA COUNTRI UK COMIC BOOK LEGEND GIVEN ‘WOKE’ MAKEOVER FOR ‘REPRENTATN’ AMY AWARDS COLUMNIST: ‘SOUND OF FREEDOM’ DERV BT PICTURE NOM WHAT IS J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI’S VISN FOR CAPTA AMERI COMICS? CANADIAN COMICS OPEN LIBRARY FAVORS LGBTQ KIDS CONTENT OVER SUPERHEROJUST KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON

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.

Introduced 1979, he was nceived of as gay, and Alpha Flight #7 -8's storyle about his "special iend" Raymon hted at this.

15 OPENLY GAY MARVEL CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT BE COMG TO THE MCU

The X-Men have long appealed to LGBT fans seeg the mutants as an allegory for their own stggl for acceptance, so was meangful for Marvel's first major gay character to be a mutant.

In 1999, the Boston Herald clared Buffy the Vampire Slayer "the most gay show on work TV this year" spe of not havg any openly gay characters at the time. There was cricism, however, that Willow started self-intifyg as "gay" spe havg clear sexual attractn to and relatnships wh men the first three seasons.

Obsidian, son of Green Lantern Alan Stt and one of the founrs of Infy Inc., was unsuccsful his relatnships wh women before g out as gay. Most of this diversifitn has volved troducg new legacy characters, but All-New X-Men #40, Iceman, one of the origal X-Men, was revealed to be gay. The hacker Nomi is out and proud as a transgenr lbian om the begng of the seri, but the movie star Lo starts off far ls fortable wh his own homosexualy.

COMG OUT AS GAY SUPERHERO: MEET SIX LGBT COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS

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.

GAY SUPERHERO

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.

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. Others are beg brought to life as lbian or 23, 2015When the mutant superhero Iceman me out last month — thanks to a one-two punch of his pryg telepathic teammate and a time-travel vis om his younger self — he immediately beme the most proment gay ic book character. But his revelatn was far om the only story le volvg gay, lbian and transgenr characters the fast-evolvg world of ic-book October, Alysia Yeoh, a transgenr iend of Batgirl, and her girliend Jo were married a simple ceremony unmarred by super-villay; Peter Parker, perhaps better known as Spir-Man, attend the weddg of Max Moll, his scientific mentor and gay lleague; and Wicn and Hulklg, a superpowered gay uple, joed a divisn of the Avengers along wh Hawkeye and Songbird.

Siegel while superhero — thanks to their longevy and their exploatn animatn, televisn seri and big-budget films — may often hog the spotlight, a look at the pennt si of the ic book dtry shows even eper pictns of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr life. Gay fans have long admired the impossibly perfect bodi and chiseled featur of their hero and felt a kship wh some like the X-Men, who fought for acceptance a world that feared and hated them simply for beg ComicsAnd publishers, an attempt to reflect morn tim, have troduced a plethora of champns who are no longer primarily straight, whe and male unr their masks. Wood, who now liv Boston wh her girliend of 10 years, said she has met a lot of supportive fans — straight, gay and transgenr — at ic book nventns around the untry.