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MEET TV’S BLACK, GAY SUPERHERO: HOOD JTICE
This scene, along wh Mason’s ments on his relatnship wh Silk Spectre, is the source of the general assumptn that Hood Jtice was a gay man and a sexual sadist. He was secretly homosexual and a romantic relatnship wh Nelson Gardner aka Capta Metropolis. The work’s acclaimed seri Watchmen jt had a watershed moment through the troductn of Hood Jtice/Will Reev, an openly gay Ain Amerin superhero.
That said, makg what was a lovg relatnship the source material to a fetishized, ercive one is not the bt way to troduce a groundbreakg, Ain-Amerin gay superhero. The TV seri portrays Capta Metropolis as someone who isn’t voted to fightg crime so much as a gay man to stumed roleplay. It is ma clear the var end materials that Hood Jtice was homosexual and probably a sadist who rived his pleasure om rough treatment of male partners.