Which versns of Superman, Rob, and Wonr Woman are gay? How DC Comics is refg the symbols of characters like Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash for a new, queerer generatn.
Contents:
- IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
- DC COMICS NCELS S GAY SUPERMAN BOOK SERI AFTER JT 18 ISSU AS SAL FALL FLAT
- IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
- DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
Fally, they start nudgg a few top-tier characters out of the closet — but are always reful never to send 'em out whout first attachg an all-important asterisk, as a bulwark agast any backlash om homophobic rears (and/or stockholrs): Rob's queer! “Characters that were unknown to most of the general public — like Starman, say, or Maggie Sawyer, or Green-Lantern-no-not-the-active-one-wh-a-seri-but-the-olr-one-nobody-outsi-of-ics-fandom-knows-by-name — uld be gay, but Superman had to be able to sell movie tickets and toothpaste the Midwt. “You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015, ” Grayson ntu.
A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and ut gture, but every gture tak on outsized meang when speakg out is self a source of fear.
So, wh that said, is Superman gay, bisexual, or straight? Of urse, while there have been gay and bisexual characters before, this is the first time that a poster boy character like Superman was revealed to be gay or bisexual.
DC COMICS NCELS S GAY SUPERMAN BOOK SERI AFTER JT 18 ISSU AS SAL FALL FLAT
And sce, at the time, he’d temporarily taken over as Superman while his father was off-world, generated headl about Superman beg gay.
IS SUPERMAN GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
Let’s see if Superman is gay, bisexual, or straight.
DID DC COMICS ‘MAKE SUPERMAN GAY’?
Was he ever gay? Clark Kent, aka Superman, was never gay.
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.