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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.
It is also plaly put that Nelson Gardner and Hood Jtice had an extend homosexual relatnship, cludg squabblg “like an old married uple” by 1948. [9:EM:p3] Although the publicist for the origal hero group had Sally Juper (Silk Spectre) para around public wh Hood Jtice, he ments that is gettg harr to ver up for the two gay hero.