Gay Comics – World Queerstory

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• GAY COMIC STRIPS
• TAG: GAY COMICS

GAY COMIC STRIPS

This prompted him to e out as gay, for the sake of promotg visibily of the muny and the hope would spire the public to take more of an tert HIV preventn. 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. 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.

TAG: GAY COMICS

While there have been many characters over the years who e om all walks of life, we take a look at some of the heavy hters ics who also happen tointify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.

The posive and supportive rponse om fans has seen the uple bee one of the more proment homosexual relatnships Marvel ics, wh their romance beg handled a cidly more open and direct manner. Due to the Comics Co Authory's puranil l agast homosexual or bisexual ntent, Mystique creator Chris Claremont was not able to show their relatnship until many years after the fact, where is shown through flashbacks that Mystique urted the female Dty as a man.

Th Northstar’s homosexualy was merely allud to for years, until, 1992, Alpha Flight wrers were allowed to have the character state “I am gay.

" Recently, Northstar broke even more ground when his marriage to boyiend Kyle Jadu beme the first gay marriage shown on the pag of a Marvel ic book. 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!

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. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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. Shadow Cabet revealed two of s female superhero, Donner and Blzen, were together, and Static #16, the ma character’s bt iend Rick Stone me out after survivg a btal gaybashg at the hands of whe supremacists.

That year would also see even more gay superhero — Malibu Comics, recently acquired by Marvel, wrote superhero Turbocharge g out Prime (vol.