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• COMIC GAY BOOKS
• TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART
• GAY IC BOOKS
• GAY COMICS BOOKS
• BATMAN IS GAY, IC BOOK WRER SAYSCOMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT, REPORTS MATTHIAS HEE FOR DIE WELT.COMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT. STILL, FANS OF THE PED CSAR HAVE LONG HAD REASONS TO WONR.COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS N LEAD UNNVENTNAL LIV. VERY FEW OF THEM ARE MARRIED, OR HAVE KIDS, OR A NORMAL JOB. IF MORS LIVE WH THEM – UNUAL, BUT TAKE DONALD DUCK AS AN EXAMPLE – THEY ARE “NEPHEWS,” AND WE GET NO CLUE AS TO WHO THEIR PARENTS ARE OR WHY THEY LIVE WH THEIR UNCLE. IF THE CHARACTERS LIVE MUNALLY, THEN IS UALLY MEN ONLY AND THE SET-UP IS NOT WHOUT PARALLELS TO MARRIED LIFE: THAT'S THE WAY IS FOR SAME STREET'S BERT AND ERNIE, THE WELL-KNOWN GERMAN IC FIGUR FIX AND FOXI, OR FOR THAT MATTER, BATMAN AND ROB. IN THE REAL WORLD, ARRANGEMENTS LIKE THAT ARE UALLY E FOR PLENTY OF MENTARY. WHICH IS WHY 'S NOT EXACTLY A HUGE SURPRISE THAT AN OFFICIAL BATMAN INC. THOR HAS NOW E OUT AND JT SAID : BATMAN IS GAY. “GAYNS IS BUILT TO BATMAN,” GRANT MORRISON, A ST WHO HAS BEEN WRG FOR THE SERI SCE 2006, TOLD A PLAYBOY TERVIEWER. “I'M NOT G GAY THE PEJORATIVE SENSE, BUT BATMAN IS VERY, VERY GAY. THERE'S JT NO NYG .” MORRISON, WHOSE FANS NSIR HIM ALONG WH ALAN MOORE TO BE THE GREATT LIVG ICS THOR, IS KNOWN FOR LAYG ON A B THICK. THIS MAY JT BE HIM BEG PROVOTIVE FOR THE SAKE OF . ONE OF HIS FIRST SERI, THE 1980S, WAS LLED “THE NEW ADVENTUR OF HLER." THE HERO OF HIS BT-KNOWN WORK, "THE INVISIBL" – A SERI ABOUT VOODOO, TIME TRAVEL AND THE MARQUIS SA – IS A BALD, CYNIL, VCIBLE MACHO-MAN WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIS CREATOR. WHEN BAD SAL THREATENED TO PUT AN END TO “THE INVISIBL,” MORRISON ANISED A WORLD-WI “WANKATHON” – A MASS MASTURBATN SSN AT A SET TIME (ON THANKSGIVG DAY) TO ST A MAGIC SPELL THAT WOULD KEEP HIS CREATN GOG. IT WORKED. MORRISON'S OUTRAGEO PLAN ED SO MUCH MEDIA BUZZ THAT SAL SOARED. STILL: THE FACT REMAS THAT WHAT MORRISON IS SAYG IS NOTHG THAT ANY ASSIDUO BATMAN REAR OLR THAN, SAY, 12, HASN'T ALREADY FIGURED OUT. “OBVLY, AS A FICTNAL CHARACTER, [BATMAN] IS TEND TO BE HETEROSEXUAL, BUT THE BASIS OF THE WHOLE NCEPT IS UTTERLY GAY,” THE WRER SAID. “I THK THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LIKE . ALL THE WOMEN FANCY HIM AND THEY ALL WEAR FETISH CLOTH AND JUMP AROUND ROOF TOPS TO GET HIM. HE DON'T RE – HE'S MORE TERTED HANGG OUT WH THE OLD GUY AND THE KID.” MORRISON ALREADY ALLUD TO BATMAN'S HIDN HOMOSEXUALY HIS 1986 STORY “ARKHAM ASYLUM,” WHICH THE SUPER HERO GO TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM TO TALK TO THE JOKER. THE LATTER GRABS BATMAN'S BUTTOCKS AND ASKS: “HOW'S THE BOY WONR? STARTED SHAVG YET?” WHEN, THE MID-1990S, MOVIE DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER MA TWO MOVI WH VAL KILMER AND GEE CLOONEY AS BATMAN AND CHRIS O'DONNELL AS ROB, HIS STUME SIGNERS DRSED THE HERO AND HIS SIKICK SUS THAT PLAYED UP NIPPL, BICEPS AND ABS. SOME NSIRED THE STUME CHOICE A MP AND NOT SO SUBTLE HT ABOUT WHAT WAS REALLY GOG ON WH THE CHARACTERS. A HIDDEN AGENDA? THE HOMOEROTIC NATURE OF SUPER HERO ICS HAS BEEN THE STUFF OF DISCSN SCE THE 1950S, WHEN GERMAN-AMERIN PSYCHIATRIST FREDRIC WERTHAM MA THE POT THAT THE GUYS NOT ONLY FLEW AROUND TIGHT-FTG OUTFS THAT ENHANCED THEIR PUMPED-UP MCL, BUT UALLY LIVED AN UNEXPLAED RELATNSHIP WH YOUNG MALE “SIKICKS.” WERTHAM FOUND BATMAN AND ROB PARTICULARLY GAY. IN HIS BOOK “THE SCTN OF THE INNOCENT,” PUBLISHED 1954, THE PSYCHIATRIST ALSO CRICISED ICS FOR WHAT HE NSIRED TO BE EXAGGERATED VLENCE AND FOR ENURAGG HETEROSEXUAL MASTURBATN – HE SAW THE LOOP OF WONR WOMAN'S MAGIC LASSO AS A VAGA SYMBOL. WERTHAM WAS THE JOSEPH MCCARTHY OF ICS. WHERE THE NSERVATIVE U.S. SENATOR SAW SECRET MUNISTS LURKG, THE PSYCHIATRIST SAW ALL-PERVASIVE ALBE HIDN PERVERSNS. HIS MSAGE RONATED WH AMERINS THE PARANOID COLD WAR CLIMATE. PUBLISHERS REACTED BY CREATG THE COMIC COS 1954, A FORM OF DTRY SELF-REGULATN TO AVOID STATE CENSORSHIP MEASUR. IN 2001, AMERIN WRER MICHAEL CHABON ED THE MOOD WERTHAM CREATED HIS PULZER PRIZE-WNG NOVEL “THE AMAZG ADVENTUR OF KAVALIER AND CLAY.” THE PLOT CENTR ON TWO YOUNG JEWS -- ONE OF WHOM HAS JT FLED NAZI-OCCUPIED PRAGUE LEAVG HIS FAY BEHD -- WHO GO ON TO BEE ICS THORS. ONE OF THEM IS GAY, AND HE BE OBSSED WH THE IA THAT THE CHARACTERS HE CREAT MAY BE GIVG EXPRSN TO HIS SUPPRSED CLATNS. ALAN MOORE'S CLASSIC, “WATCHMEN,” ALSO SUGGTS HIDN HOMOSEXUALY ON THE PART OF EARLY SUPER HERO: A MEMBER OF A WATCHMEN TEAM THE 1950S TURNS OUT TO BE GAY, AND MS SUICI WHEN HIS TE SEXUAL ORIENTATN TO LIGHT. NO DANGER OF THAT WH BATMAN AND ROB. THEY MAY NOT BE OFFICIALLY OUT, BUT WE KNOW THE SRE – AND 'S NOT EXACTLY UPSETTG ANYBODY.   SHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 8 MAY 2012 12:11PMUPDATED 26 AUGT 2013 10:48AMSOURCE: SBSTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• 10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY

COMIC GAY BOOKS

The existence of homosexualy ics has long been ferred but only recently embraced. In the '50s and '60s, was illegal ( the Uned Stat) to be gay, so was nsired taboo and part of the unterculture.

It wasn’t until the '70s and '80s that ic book creators began troducg characters that uld be scribed as havg gay ‘tras’ whout outright clarg them as LGBT. Required absolutely no mentn of homosexualy until they lifted that ban 1989, and as the untry beme more progrsive s unrstandg and acceptance of the LGBT muny, creators ntued to buck the system and troduce pellg characters that were relatable to more people.

TOM TAYLOR AND DC COMICS’ GAY SUPERMAN BOOK COMPLETELY FALLS OFF TOP 50 SAL CHART

In an early issue story-arc, Constante go to the fense of several homosexuals who are beg preyed upon and ends up takg a severe beatg for his effort.

GAY IC BOOKS

Northstar is probably the most well-known homosexual character to ic fans bee he was the first openly-gay superhero. In the se of Northstar, they embraced wh a character’s homosexualy. The two share a mournful embrace over the loss of their loved on and was at that time that Northstar felt fortable enough to announce to the world, “I am gay.

GAY COMICS BOOKS

The inty of Hood Jtice is never fully explored, but Hollis Mason’s book, Unr the Hood, which is referenced throughout the ics, he expos Hood Jtice as havg approved of Hler’s actns durg World War II, which he nsired odd bee of Hler’s attu towards homosexuals, makg him a hypocre. Gregor De La Vega, who lls himself Extraño (meang “strange” Spanish), is probably the most offensive pictn of a gay character ics.

He is reprented as beg gay via a number of sexual nuendos and slang terms that remble numero stereotyp associated wh homosexualy. Created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton, “Extraño was every stereotype of a gay man you uld thk of.

BATMAN IS GAY, IC BOOK WRER SAYSCOMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT, REPORTS MATTHIAS HEE FOR DIE WELT.COMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT. STILL, FANS OF THE PED CSAR HAVE LONG HAD REASONS TO WONR.COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS N LEAD UNNVENTNAL LIV. VERY FEW OF THEM ARE MARRIED, OR HAVE KIDS, OR A NORMAL JOB. IF MORS LIVE WH THEM – UNUAL, BUT TAKE DONALD DUCK AS AN EXAMPLE – THEY ARE “NEPHEWS,” AND WE GET NO CLUE AS TO WHO THEIR PARENTS ARE OR WHY THEY LIVE WH THEIR UNCLE. IF THE CHARACTERS LIVE MUNALLY, THEN IS UALLY MEN ONLY AND THE SET-UP IS NOT WHOUT PARALLELS TO MARRIED LIFE: THAT'S THE WAY IS FOR SAME STREET'S BERT AND ERNIE, THE WELL-KNOWN GERMAN IC FIGUR FIX AND FOXI, OR FOR THAT MATTER, BATMAN AND ROB. IN THE REAL WORLD, ARRANGEMENTS LIKE THAT ARE UALLY E FOR PLENTY OF MENTARY. WHICH IS WHY 'S NOT EXACTLY A HUGE SURPRISE THAT AN OFFICIAL BATMAN INC. THOR HAS NOW E OUT AND JT SAID : BATMAN IS GAY. “GAYNS IS BUILT TO BATMAN,” GRANT MORRISON, A ST WHO HAS BEEN WRG FOR THE SERI SCE 2006, TOLD A PLAYBOY TERVIEWER. “I'M NOT G GAY THE PEJORATIVE SENSE, BUT BATMAN IS VERY, VERY GAY. THERE'S JT NO NYG .” MORRISON, WHOSE FANS NSIR HIM ALONG WH ALAN MOORE TO BE THE GREATT LIVG ICS THOR, IS KNOWN FOR LAYG ON A B THICK. THIS MAY JT BE HIM BEG PROVOTIVE FOR THE SAKE OF . ONE OF HIS FIRST SERI, THE 1980S, WAS LLED “THE NEW ADVENTUR OF HLER." THE HERO OF HIS BT-KNOWN WORK, "THE INVISIBL" – A SERI ABOUT VOODOO, TIME TRAVEL AND THE MARQUIS SA – IS A BALD, CYNIL, VCIBLE MACHO-MAN WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIS CREATOR. WHEN BAD SAL THREATENED TO PUT AN END TO “THE INVISIBL,” MORRISON ANISED A WORLD-WI “WANKATHON” – A MASS MASTURBATN SSN AT A SET TIME (ON THANKSGIVG DAY) TO ST A MAGIC SPELL THAT WOULD KEEP HIS CREATN GOG. IT WORKED. MORRISON'S OUTRAGEO PLAN ED SO MUCH MEDIA BUZZ THAT SAL SOARED. STILL: THE FACT REMAS THAT WHAT MORRISON IS SAYG IS NOTHG THAT ANY ASSIDUO BATMAN REAR OLR THAN, SAY, 12, HASN'T ALREADY FIGURED OUT. “OBVLY, AS A FICTNAL CHARACTER, [BATMAN] IS TEND TO BE HETEROSEXUAL, BUT THE BASIS OF THE WHOLE NCEPT IS UTTERLY GAY,” THE WRER SAID. “I THK THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LIKE . ALL THE WOMEN FANCY HIM AND THEY ALL WEAR FETISH CLOTH AND JUMP AROUND ROOF TOPS TO GET HIM. HE DON'T RE – HE'S MORE TERTED HANGG OUT WH THE OLD GUY AND THE KID.” MORRISON ALREADY ALLUD TO BATMAN'S HIDN HOMOSEXUALY HIS 1986 STORY “ARKHAM ASYLUM,” WHICH THE SUPER HERO GO TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM TO TALK TO THE JOKER. THE LATTER GRABS BATMAN'S BUTTOCKS AND ASKS: “HOW'S THE BOY WONR? STARTED SHAVG YET?” WHEN, THE MID-1990S, MOVIE DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER MA TWO MOVI WH VAL KILMER AND GEE CLOONEY AS BATMAN AND CHRIS O'DONNELL AS ROB, HIS STUME SIGNERS DRSED THE HERO AND HIS SIKICK SUS THAT PLAYED UP NIPPL, BICEPS AND ABS. SOME NSIRED THE STUME CHOICE A MP AND NOT SO SUBTLE HT ABOUT WHAT WAS REALLY GOG ON WH THE CHARACTERS. A HIDDEN AGENDA? THE HOMOEROTIC NATURE OF SUPER HERO ICS HAS BEEN THE STUFF OF DISCSN SCE THE 1950S, WHEN GERMAN-AMERIN PSYCHIATRIST FREDRIC WERTHAM MA THE POT THAT THE GUYS NOT ONLY FLEW AROUND TIGHT-FTG OUTFS THAT ENHANCED THEIR PUMPED-UP MCL, BUT UALLY LIVED AN UNEXPLAED RELATNSHIP WH YOUNG MALE “SIKICKS.” WERTHAM FOUND BATMAN AND ROB PARTICULARLY GAY. IN HIS BOOK “THE SCTN OF THE INNOCENT,” PUBLISHED 1954, THE PSYCHIATRIST ALSO CRICISED ICS FOR WHAT HE NSIRED TO BE EXAGGERATED VLENCE AND FOR ENURAGG HETEROSEXUAL MASTURBATN – HE SAW THE LOOP OF WONR WOMAN'S MAGIC LASSO AS A VAGA SYMBOL. WERTHAM WAS THE JOSEPH MCCARTHY OF ICS. WHERE THE NSERVATIVE U.S. SENATOR SAW SECRET MUNISTS LURKG, THE PSYCHIATRIST SAW ALL-PERVASIVE ALBE HIDN PERVERSNS. HIS MSAGE RONATED WH AMERINS THE PARANOID COLD WAR CLIMATE. PUBLISHERS REACTED BY CREATG THE COMIC COS 1954, A FORM OF DTRY SELF-REGULATN TO AVOID STATE CENSORSHIP MEASUR. IN 2001, AMERIN WRER MICHAEL CHABON ED THE MOOD WERTHAM CREATED HIS PULZER PRIZE-WNG NOVEL “THE AMAZG ADVENTUR OF KAVALIER AND CLAY.” THE PLOT CENTR ON TWO YOUNG JEWS -- ONE OF WHOM HAS JT FLED NAZI-OCCUPIED PRAGUE LEAVG HIS FAY BEHD -- WHO GO ON TO BEE ICS THORS. ONE OF THEM IS GAY, AND HE BE OBSSED WH THE IA THAT THE CHARACTERS HE CREAT MAY BE GIVG EXPRSN TO HIS SUPPRSED CLATNS. ALAN MOORE'S CLASSIC, “WATCHMEN,” ALSO SUGGTS HIDN HOMOSEXUALY ON THE PART OF EARLY SUPER HERO: A MEMBER OF A WATCHMEN TEAM THE 1950S TURNS OUT TO BE GAY, AND MS SUICI WHEN HIS TE SEXUAL ORIENTATN TO LIGHT. NO DANGER OF THAT WH BATMAN AND ROB. THEY MAY NOT BE OFFICIALLY OUT, BUT WE KNOW THE SRE – AND 'S NOT EXACTLY UPSETTG ANYBODY.   SHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 8 MAY 2012 12:11PMUPDATED 26 AUGT 2013 10:48AMSOURCE: SBSTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

-posive at a time when such an afflictn was often creded to the gay muny.

10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY

Though the character is never openly gay, he was certaly wrten that way to get around the C. This was probably due large part to the offensive and stereotypil pictn of a gay man, which brought about a lot of negative attentn om both sis of the issue. Durg that time, the two beme lovers and have remaed two of the most proment homosexual characters publitn.