Wh DCnU on the horizon, and speculatn nng amok about where favore plots might land once the tornado of alternative timele has died down, there’s been a lot of ic talk office chats about our much-beloved gay and lbian vigilant. Before any more ms of movi e out, or new ntuy throws all for a loop, we thought would be a good ia to round up June dog what half of every major cy (and que a few small on) on the pla is dog right now; celebratg Gay Pri Month. It was high time we actually gave space to LGBT issu, given the month, but also general. (Whstandg the panrg of X-Men: First Class do not unt.) But jt as much as we want to showse characters who kick ass and take nam, we hope that youll also enjoy the ltle history lsons.
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BADASS GAY
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Gayngster: A gay gangster. Lbian Jock: A gay woman who is good at sports.
Tled, simply enough, Merry Men, the ic book is wrten and created by out wrer Robert Rodi, wh art by Jackie Lewis, and featur a bold new story that rests the faiar medieval characters as gay Men might sound at first like a lightfully mpy seri, but is que the oppose. The ic is a ground, realistic look to a world where Rob Hood, still the faiar rogueish lear livg the woods wh his band of outlaws wh a good e, is now also a badass homosexual who ris up the face of discrimatn and opprsn. Rodi: I'm a history buff -- ancient and medieval pecially -- and I was lurkg around some webs when I me across the qutn "Was Rob Hood gay?
One of the tertg thgs you haven't seen yet, bee 's an upg issue, is the revelatn that our villa, Prce John, cis to e the oft-quoted passage Levic for polil reasons; 's a means of gettg at the gay alli of his brother, Kg Richard. One of the ways I'm tryg to be te to the perd is that the 12th century there was no ncept of homosexualy per se; the term self was hundreds of years om beg was same-sex activy, of urse, but that was seen as a behavral issue, not as an exprsn of inty.
REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW
Acrdgly, some of the Merry Men are bisexual, others entirely gay, and there's one -- I won't say which right now -- who is actually straight, but who feels a sense of gratu and loyalty to another member of the group that manifts self as a kd of romantic love. It was a liberate choice, and a b of a difficult one for me, bee I'm prcipally known as a satirist; my novels om the '90s -- Fag Hag, Closet Case, Kept Boy, and so on -- were all farcil tak on gay archetyp. Also, my first ics seri was a spy spoof lled Coname: Knockout, whose heroe had a gay sikick named Go-Go Fias.
So people generally expect that kd of thg om me, and, fact, when I tell people that my new ics seri is "gay Rob Hood, " their first reactn is to lgh and say what a hilar ia that is. And then gets awkward bee I have to set them thg is, I've been atg for gay actn-adventure hero for years now.
Bee may be the 12th century and they may be peril of their liv, but this is a still bunch of burly gay guys the woods. Go to gaybros. How many of you want to see a badass gay ma character?
10 BADASS GAY CHARACTERS
Reprentatns of gay characters media range om the offensive stereotyp to overly PC. Who else wants to see a pletely nuanced badass character wh qutnable motiv, who also happens to be gay?