Top 10 Bt Gay Comics 2023 - LGBTQ+ Manga & Graphic Novels

Contents:

• GAY COMIC STRIPS
• TOP 10 BT GAY COMICS 2023 – LGBTQ+ MANGA & GRAPHIC NOVELS
• GAY COMIC GEEK
• WHAT UP, GAY COMIC BOOK FANS? DC RELEAS PRI MONTH TL/COVERS
• 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
• THE GAY APPEAL OF SUPERHERO
• GAY COMICS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE
• TAG: GAY COMICS
• THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?
• GEE PéREZ HELPED BRG SUPERHERO TO GAY COMICS
• DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'

GAY COMIC STRIPS

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TOP 10 BT GAY COMICS 2023 – LGBTQ+ MANGA & GRAPHIC NOVELS

Even though no long-standg US ics pany has been unsthed by prev homophobic polici and cisns, nowadays, the larger ic book pani seem to be takg a more ut and progrsive approach by cludg LGBTQ+ characters. Pl Staffelbach is the Gay Comic Geek, a self-scribed dork who lov ic books, Transformers, llectable figur, sci-fi and fantasy movi, Anime, Amerin rtoons, and anythg else that uld be nsired geeky. The Gay Geeky Vlogs channel was started as a means of brgg to light thgs that Pl has an tert but don't directly volve ic books, as well as talk about thgs gog on his life.

GAY COMIC GEEK

Bee of his rise populary, Pl has been terviewed several tim and now works alongsi four other gay YouTube channel owners a group project lled A Gay Colab, found here.

Straight Gay: A number of the Gay Comic Geek's YouTube subscribers have ma suatns about his te orientatn, and even gone so far as to acce him of pretendg to be gay for attentn. ”After the episo aired over the weekend, homophobic viewers h Twter to pla about the Marvel star’s scene, postg a lany of bigoted tweets wh the hashtag “NotMySpirman. — Theo Foxx (@FoxxDoThgs) July 14, 2023throwg love at tom holland, bee my man do not serve the homophobia that's beg thrown his way rn — pla ? || is gog to afhf & eras tour (@lilysdreamworld) July 15, 2023The homophobia directed at Tom Holland is sickeng, pathetic, and utterly unsurprisg.

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WHAT UP, GAY COMIC BOOK FANS? DC RELEAS PRI MONTH TL/COVERS

— ⑅ j (@purwntr) July 15, 2023Many of his fans also seemed perplexed over the backlash, nsirg that former “Spir-Man” actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have each portrayed gay characters as homophobia spewg om ic book fans bee Tom Holland played a character on TV while simultaneoly puttg the other two Spiys on a pestal as if they haven't done gay scen before too is somethg. As the Edorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways wr, eds and do about a ln other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most vised LGBTQ news, arts and entertament webse now celebratg s 14th year as a media outlet.

While the Kid wasn't sent to any Old Wt gay bars between gun slgg, he did affect a different speech pattern and air and attu more sued to a stereotypil homosexual character.

Tre as may have seemed, he was still reprentg the LGBT muny a time history where went strictly longt mored-to-be-gay character mastream super hero ics was "Alpha Flight's" Northstar. Thk about and Shatterstar may be gettg all the gay mutant attentn the days, but before the two were out and proud, Marvel mutants Phat and Vivector were proudly announcg their queer stat to the world back '03. Not to mentn proclivi for stum, drsg up, and fantasy role play; secretive behavr and double-liv; ltle tert women; and of urse, pictns of Batman and Rob were equently homoerotic, visually emphasizg Batman's physique and Robs bare legs and short pants.

10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY

Jackson - a fan-favore character sce his simultaneo but DC ic books and on the Young Jtice animated seri - has bee somewhat emblematic of the rise of characters wh queer inti morn ic books, now g full circle to the role of Aquaman as one of DC's most unique legacy Stt(Image cred: DC)The origal Green Lantern Alan Stt has been ic books sce 1940, but 's only been sce 2012 that he's been out as a gay man. Intertgly, Alan Stt's son Obsidian has been out as a gay man sce 2004, beatg his dad to the punch and reflectg a rare, but very real experience shared by many rears who have multiple fay members - even parents - who are (Image cred: Marvel Comics)Beg magil nature has lent Loki the abily to take on many different forms and those forms display many different forms of attractn. Northstar(Image cred: Marvel Comics)Jean-Pl Bebier buted 1979 at a time when both the Comics Co Authory and Marvel's edor--chief Jim Shooter were opposed to openly gay characters, acrdg to thor Shirrel Rhoas 2008's A Complete History of Amerin Comic Books.

THE GAY APPEAL OF SUPERHERO

"Dpe not utterg the words "I am gay" until 1992's Alpha Flight #106, Northstar has long been accepted by X-Men fans and ic book fans at large who picked up Byrne's nods as one of the first nonilly gay superhero sce his ceptn. Endurg Civil Wars, Secret Invasns, Origal Ss and every event between, openly-gay wrer Allan Heberg created the pair 2005's Young Avengers #1 and remd rears that Marvel's "world outsi your wdow" clud more than jt the fns of love that had been portrayed to that two also enabled other wrers to create more realistic portrayals of sexualy their team books as evinced by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's Young Avengers volume that also featured queer characters Miss Ameri, Prodigy, and Loki.

GAY COMICS

Inially rejected by the Jtice League, Coagula found a home wh the Doom Patrol, though she's rarely been seen recent (Image cred: Marvel Comics)In 2015’s All-New X-Men #40, the younger Bobby Drake was psychilly outed as homosexual by Jean Grey, retroactively makg the foundg member of the X-Men Marvel's hight-profile queer mutant.

While Jean Grey's vasn of Bobby's privacy was problematic bee he did not choose to e out on his own, makg one of Marvel's olst characters gay is notable the way ream past and future stori. Midnighter and Apollo(Image cred: DC Comics)Created as analogs of Batman and Superman, Apollo and Midnighter were among the first openly gay superhero ic books and were certaly the most visible gay superhero uple the late '90s and early '00s.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

The Comics Co Authory banned any suggtns of homosexualy ic books until 1989 Ameri, and wasn't until the 2000s that LGBT characters started to feature more stand-alone stori.

For gay ic book rears, superhero ics had always prented that extra isson of the male body drawn as if vered but leated ways to reveal the hero’s every ripplg mcle. Beyond the semi erotic male imagery, ’s not much of a stretch to pot out how the perennial superhero trope of the secret inty uld be meangful a different way for the gay rear.

Tom HollandFans of Brish actor Tom Holland have e to his fense after some social media ers were seemgly upset that the latt episo of his Apple TV+ seri The Crowd Room featured gay the scene, Holland’s character go to a club wh heavy black eyeler and all black. ”A lot of other ers, however, seemed very nfed over the backlash, pecially sce Spir-Man actors Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield have also played gay person wrote, “Watchg agile cishet men have breakdowns over the reason Tom Holland is trendg is sweet we to me.

TOM HOLLAND 'UNAFFECTED' OM 'THE CROWD ROOM' GAY SCENE HATE

Televisn superproducer Greg Berlanti, of DC seri om “Arrow” to “Batwoman” (and an EP on “Superpowered”) talks about beg drawn to superhero’ operatg unr alias as a young gay man learng to -swch; we don’t dwell here, but ’s the first time any terview subject om the ntemporary entertament dtry has gotten real.

"However, the latt episo, which was expected, ed uproar soon after s Holland's fans are quick to jump his fense by praisg him for takg a darg role and also poted to the prev Spir-Man actors' Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield, on-screen gay characters after a trend NotMySpirman was started on Twter. Over the next year, the ic would revis Andy — touchg on the stigma of the disease, the stigma of homosexualy, the medil muny’s nfn over the disease’s unpredictabily, the difficulty of gettg to experimental treatments, and many other topics and issu facg AIDS patients. Wh the Co havg reversed s posn on gay people, Marvel cid that 1990 was the year they were gog to have someone wh superpowers really actually e out the pag of their ic books!

TAG: GAY COMICS

Rick Vech self-published a limed seri lled Brat Pack, a really dark satire of mastream ic books, sort of ak to Watchmen some ways but like… In , the Batman analog Midnight Mk was a flamboyant gay man who sexually ab his sikicks. DC ics spent that year fully embracg the new Co l regardg LGBTQ+ characters by first havg the former supervilla Pied Piper e out as gay the openg pag of The Flash (vol.

They kept that trend gog 1992 puttg the reformed villa Lightng Lord a gay relatnship, and implyg that the heroic duo Shrkg Vlet and Lightng Lass were a uple, and Jtice League Quarterly #8 sually mentned that Tasmanian Devil was gay (not the Looney Tun one, I know you were thkg ) by havg him exprs how acceptg the team was.

So, Northstar says he knows the hardships gay people face, sce he is gay… that mak Major Mapleleaf even angrier bee Northstar isn’t g his fame to help gay people or act as an AIDS activist. The issue received a ton of acclaim om the LGBTQ+ muny for tacklg the AIDS crisis so well, alg wh HIV stigma and homophobia simultaneoly, and fally gettg Northstar out of the closet.

THE POPULARY OF GAY MANGA JAPAN: WHAT ARE ‘BARA’ AND ‘YAOI’ AND WHO ARE S FANS?

The issue touch on almost everythg happeng NYC leadg up to the Stonewall Rts — police rptn, mob n gay bars, Andy Warhol, Judy Garland — and leav off right before the police raid begs.

In March of 1993, Lynn Johnston’s syndited ic strip “For Better or For Worse” — nng daily newspapers sce 1979 — began a story which long-nng character Lawrence Poirier me out of the closet, beg the first openly gay teenager and first gay person of lor (as his father is Brazilian) a syndited newspaper ic strip. ) In Enigma #4, the Enigma enty awakened the latent homosexualy of s host Michael Smh — was only an eight-issue seri but was still the lead character for the seri grapplg wh his own sexualy.

In Miltone Media — which published and distributed s ic books through DC — superhero Fa was outed by a telepathic supervilla Blood Syndite #8 — makg him the first black gay superhero by a mastream ic book publisher, even though he never really embraced who he was. (This also ma Spectral the first gay character for Malibu Comics but sce they were only gog to be around another year before beg absorbed to Marvel and basilly fotten, that’s kd of cintal. In Marvel’s New Warrrs #48, a time-travelg Jtice would disver that his father — up to this pot pated as a pretty unsympathetic abive father character — was a closeted homosexual.

GEE PéREZ HELPED BRG SUPERHERO TO GAY COMICS

Shadow Cabet revealed two of s female superhero, Donner and Blzen, were together, and Static #16, the ma character’s bt iend Rick Stone me out after survivg a btal gaybashg at the hands of whe supremacists. Jt a uple of months later DC’s seri The Spectre (#45) a story lled “Acts of God”, the Spectre (and his alter-ego Jim Corrigan) learned to overe his own homophobia and stand up agast anti-gay vlence beg done the name of relign.

At the end of the fourth issue of Tempt, which was published 1997, Jimez clud an edorial which he dited the miseri to Pozner and publicly me out as a gay man — believed to be the first time a creator me out the pag of a ic book. In 1998, Mangels and Mart troduced a gay man named Yoshi Mishima to Star Trek Marvel’s Star Trek: Starfleet Amy #17 — still not non, still about 18 years before actual Star Trek would have s first actual gay man.

The ic strips “Troy” (by Michael Derry) and “Chelsea Boys” (by Glenn Hanson) — both of which would end up published var gay newspapers and magaz — both lnched that year as well. ” And then San Diego Comic Con Internatnal happened — the first edn of Out Comics, a gui to the work of LGBTQ+ ic creators, was released by Andy Mangels and an ashn edn of Gay Force Quarterly appeared at the nventn as well, creatg que a stir (until no fished issu were ever released. The only real difference between 1984 and 1985 that I’m aware of though is that by the end of 1984, every major ic book publisher had troduced at least one gay character (kd of).

DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'

Eclipse ntued not rg whatosoever about the Co, publishg a story lled “Dance on a Razor’s Edge: A Ballet on the Death of Y Mishima” Night Mic #2, cludg an erotic dream by Mishima about Sat Sebastian (who is a Catholic sat the gay muny has kd of -opted. And so Homosexualy: Legimate, Alternate Deathstyle me to be published — a “non-fictn” book claimg to be “the facts” but actualy a whole bunch of propaganda about how evil homosexuals were. Eclipse wasn’t makg thgs ls gay eher, even gog so far as to produce a three issue miseri lled Hotspur which clus a gay barbarian named Suu of Xoo — a clear parody of Conan the Barbarian, I thk.

At about the same time as that seri began, First Comics published Jon Sable, Freelance #45, where the tle characters acpani his gay iend Gray Adler on a yacht to Cann – ’s a plite storyle, but volv closeted gay actors and people dyg of AIDS. Extraño exemplified virtually every stereotype of gay men, which was an tentnal effort by his creators to get the pot across whout g any language that would vlate the Co. Maggie was a very popular character, and the March 1988 issue of Superman (vol 2) #15 — unr the wrg of John Byrne, whom you may rell was sistent on Northstar beg gay — she beme the first openly lbian character DC ics.

Meanwhile Donna Barr began publishg The Dert Peach — a ic book seri tailg the World War II adventur of Erw “The Dert Fox” Rommel’s fictnal gay brother Maned Rommel. A matter of months later, Andy Mangels and Roger Klore found the send gay APA which they lled The APA That Dare Not Speak Its Name (after the famo Osr Wil speech). Instead, they replaced them wh a le that required all social group — cludg homosexuals — to be portrayed a posive light, and that rogatory referenc to sexual orientatn uld only be ed for dramatic purpos.