Contents:
- DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
- IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
In Augt, was announced that the latt versn of Rob would have a boyiend while March, Marvel also ma the cisn to pass the mantle of Capta Ameri to a gay the big-screen worlds of Marvel and DC rema ls progrsive.
This November’s Eternals is set to change thgs wh the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first LGBTQ+ kiss between Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos, the first openly gay superhero a Marvel movie, and Haaz Sleiman, who plays his hband. And a new Aquaman ic stars a gay Black man who is posned to bee the tle has been a steady evolutn for an dtry that had moved to censor self a number of ways after “Sctn of the Innocent, ” a 1954 book by the psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, raised ncerns about sex, gore and vlence and suggted a lk between readg ics and juvenile lquency.
In one sectn, Wertham scribed Batman and Rob as “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together. )One of the earlit mastream ics to feature gays or lbians appeared 1980. A, where two gay men try to rape him.
IN SHOCKG TWIST ON INIC CHARACTER, SUPERMAN REPORTEDLY OUT AS GAY
“Mastream culture will one day make s peace wh gay Amerins, ” the edorial said. This is a dynamic which led homophobic cric Fredric Wertham to suggt the 1950s that superhero (pecially Batman and Rob) promoted homosexualy through their privilegg of male/male bonds. The pot here isn’t that Superman was really gay those early ics.
But the obssn wh double inty and disavowed sire do suggt that the character has been built on anxieti about homosexualy and masculy. ) But at the same time, refg to date women also mak Superman ls than fully male a homophobic, misogynist culture which se homosexualy as feme and therefore lser.
There are superhero stori over the years, though, that have qutned the genre’s terlked mments to homosexual panic and to vlence.