Gay Superhero: 12 Inic LGBTQ Characters Marvel and DC Comics

Contents:

• COMICS CORNER – A GOOD WEEK FOR GAY SUPERHERO
• GAY
• WHO WAS THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO? — THE ROUGH ROAD TO MARVEL’S NORTHSTAR

COMICS CORNER – A GOOD WEEK FOR GAY SUPERHERO

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.

GAY

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.

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.

WHO WAS THE FIRST GAY SUPERHERO? — THE ROUGH ROAD TO MARVEL’S NORTHSTAR

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.