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Contents:

• COMICS CORNER – A GOOD WEEK FOR GAY SUPERHERO
• GAY SUPERHERO AND DRAG QUEENS WH SUPERPOWERS: COMICS ARE QUEERER THAN EVER
• GAY SUPERHERO IN COMICS & MOVI YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

COMICS CORNER – A GOOD WEEK FOR GAY SUPERHERO

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. As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015.

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. After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992. LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics).

GAY SUPERHERO AND DRAG QUEENS WH SUPERPOWERS: COMICS ARE QUEERER THAN EVER

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. The seri has been a light for fans of the genre, wh knowg wks to and subversns of superhero trop, but ’s creasgly shone for s gay and queer reprentatn as the issu have gone by.

The hero Prizefighter was the first gay Print on his world, and has been shown to both still be mourng his late hband and matag a physil quasi-relatnship wh reporter Chris Cantero, the Lois Lane to his Superman. At the halfway pot, this promis to get even weirr – and hopefully gayer – by the end of s 12-issue n. Followg the recent outg of Green Lantern, a story explorg the dynamic between him and his also-out gay son Obsidian promis to be somethg we’ve never seen mastream superhero ics before, while the Js Chambers Flash story will be the first real solo foc the non-bary hero will have seen.

The Pied Piper story is a servg spotlight for DC’s first openly gay male character, while the Dreamer short will troduce the trans woman superhero om the Supergirl TV show to the re DC Universe, and will be wrten by the character’s actrs, Nile Ma.

GAY SUPERHERO IN COMICS & MOVI YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

“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.

The se you are about to enter ntas ntent that is homoerotic and graphic nature. If you are unr the age of 18, offend by gay ntent, or superhero peril, TURN AWAY NOW! But this year more than ever, nversatn topics veered towards creasgly popular queer stori like the g-of-age book Skim by Mariko Tamaki; Tillie Waln’s gay ice-skatg memoir, Spng; and the hypnotic rabows of Jen Bartel’s art for Marvel and years, queer reprentatn the sequential art muny has been on a path of steady improvement, and 2019 may be the bt year to date.

Marvel, for example, elevated Iceman/Bobby Drake to his first full solo seri 2017, which he me out and nonted his own ternalized homophobia; the pany then ncelled the seri 2018, before brgg him back for another n 2019. Even that rough experience was a relief, Oliveira said: “I remember the feelg when Iceman was gay — fally, I don’t have to wiggle through the cracks.

“I n advertise my book as gay, ” said Shannon Campbell, standg ont of a display for a book they -signed entled Faerie Fire. VERY gay! “I’m not entirely nfint that the larger ho are where they need to be terms of reflectg how people hab this world at [the] prent, ” he said, “but I’m really proud to see that somethg like the return of Iceman is gettg folks to regnize that we n move on om havg a Gay Superhero story to the more tertg/progrsive Superhero Who Happens to be Gay story.

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