Gay Comics – World Queerstory

Contents:

• TOP 10 GAY WEBTOON COMICS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT
• GAY IC BOOKS
• GAY COMIC STRIPS
• TAG: GAY COMICS
• TOP 10 BT GAY COMICS 2023 – LGBTQ+ MANGA & GRAPHIC NOVELS
• GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX

TOP 10 GAY WEBTOON COMICS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT

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The Four of ThemThe only reason this isn’t higher on the list is that the ma character you follow isn’t gay, so that’s a dock pots on this list specifilly. He’s a really tertg story you don’t tend to see (an openly gay kid disverg he’s bi…or somethg, who knows, the story’s still gog). It’s gay, ’s got magic, ’s gay, ’s got betifully tailed artwork, ’s gay, the historil element is such a rehg backdrop, and ’s SUPER romance between the astronomer’s apprentice and the necromancer is the ma foc, but there’s also a mystery begng to velop volvg a uple of ad bodi, an evil monster, and some magil powers at the center of all.

GAY IC BOOKS

You know I always simultaneoly roll my ey at the stereotypil gay YA love story while eatg up every b of .

But, rt assured, ’s still really, really, very, extremely gay all the is where your #RelatnshipGoals start and end. Web-Weaver – the very first gay, male Spir-Man – was troduced to fans back early July through Steve Foxe,.

Marvel has jt buted their very first gay Spir-Man named Web-Weaver — a fashn signer that isn’t aaid to take. Here’s somethg that’ll have homophobic ic fans othg at the mouth but the rt of jumpg for joy: Superman. Japane ics, or manga, are replete wh same-sex pairgs – but are they actually as gay as wtern rears might.

GAY COMIC STRIPS

Over the next year, the ic would revis Andy — touchg on the stigma of the disease, the stigma of homosexualy, the medil muny’s nfn over the disease’s unpredictabily, the difficulty of gettg to experimental treatments, and many other topics and issu facg AIDS patients. Wh the Co havg reversed s posn on gay people, Marvel cid that 1990 was the year they were gog to have someone wh superpowers really actually e out the pag of their ic books!

So, at the end of Capta Ameri #368 they clud a short story which the Machmh revealed that he was gay!

TAG: GAY COMICS

So, jt to rep, Marvel’s first super-powered tly openly gay character is an evil robot and a rapist. In Dark Horse Prents #40, they began a story set a dystopian future where homosexualy had taken over and heterosexualy was crimalized.

It was makg a really valid pot, but still didn’t exactly pat gay people the bt possible light. Rick Vech self-published a limed seri lled Brat Pack, a really dark satire of mastream ic books, sort of ak to Watchmen some ways but like… In , the Batman analog Midnight Mk was a flamboyant gay man who sexually ab his sikicks. DC ics spent that year fully embracg the new Co l regardg LGBTQ+ characters by first havg the former supervilla Pied Piper e out as gay the openg pag of The Flash (vol.

TOP 10 BT GAY COMICS 2023 – LGBTQ+ MANGA & GRAPHIC NOVELS

They kept that trend gog 1992 puttg the reformed villa Lightng Lord a gay relatnship, and implyg that the heroic duo Shrkg Vlet and Lightng Lass were a uple, and Jtice League Quarterly #8 sually mentned that Tasmanian Devil was gay (not the Looney Tun one, I know you were thkg ) by havg him exprs how acceptg the team was.

) pretty mad bee his gay son had died of AIDS and been blamed for , bee of the stigma surroundg both AIDS and gay people. So, Northstar says he knows the hardships gay people face, sce he is gay… that mak Major Mapleleaf even angrier bee Northstar isn’t g his fame to help gay people or act as an AIDS activist. The issue received a ton of acclaim om the LGBTQ+ muny for tacklg the AIDS crisis so well, alg wh HIV stigma and homophobia simultaneoly, and fally gettg Northstar out of the closet.

GAY COMIX — UNEARTHG THE HISTORY OF THE SEMAL LGBTQ PUBLITN GAY COMIX

The issue touch on almost everythg happeng NYC leadg up to the Stonewall Rts — police rptn, mob n gay bars, Andy Warhol, Judy Garland — and leav off right before the police raid begs. In March of 1993, Lynn Johnston’s syndited ic strip “For Better or For Worse” — nng daily newspapers sce 1979 — began a story which long-nng character Lawrence Poirier me out of the closet, beg the first openly gay teenager and first gay person of lor (as his father is Brazilian) a syndited newspaper ic strip. It’s pretty sad, until the end of the arc which is a much more upbeat endg than a lot of gay kids fd wh their fai and iends even now.

In other ic strip news, one of the four leadg characters of Doonbury, Mark Slackmeyer, also me out of the closet as a gay man that year. They created a mi-seri lled Sebastian O, the lead which was basilly a gay Jam Bond (and I don’t know about you but I’m dyg for the film adaptns!

) In Enigma #4, the Enigma enty awakened the latent homosexualy of s host Michael Smh — was only an eight-issue seri but was still the lead character for the seri grapplg wh his own sexualy. In Miltone Media — which published and distributed s ic books through DC — superhero Fa was outed by a telepathic supervilla Blood Syndite #8 — makg him the first black gay superhero by a mastream ic book publisher, even though he never really embraced who he was. (This also ma Spectral the first gay character for Malibu Comics but sce they were only gog to be around another year before beg absorbed to Marvel and basilly fotten, that’s kd of cintal.

The ia of gay superhero took hold unrground ics, wh Go-Go Boy by Neil Johnston and Leatherboy by Craig Maynard both beg released. In Marvel’s New Warrrs #48, a time-travelg Jtice would disver that his father — up to this pot pated as a pretty unsympathetic abive father character — was a closeted homosexual.