DC TV Watch: ‘Gotham’s’ Gay Twist, Is ‘Supergirl’ Next? – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• IS SUPERGIRL GAY THE TV SHOW OR IS IT ANOTHER CASE OF QUEERBAG?
• FANS THK SUPERGIRL IS GAY AS SEASON 6 CH CLOSE TO FALE EPISO
• SUPERGIRL’S SERI FALE COULD HAVE BEEN GAYER
• SUPERGIRL’S SERI FALE COULD HAVE BEEN GAYER
• ‘SUPERGIRL’ BOSS ON “THOUGHTFUL” COMG OUT STORY AND “BURY YOUR GAYS” FEARS
• IS ‘SUPERGIRL’ CHARACTER ALEX DANVERS COMG OUT AS GAY IN SEASON 2?
• ‘SUPERGIRL’ BOSS ON “THOUGHTFUL” COMG OUT STORY AND “BURY YOUR GAYS” FEARS
• THE SECRET INTY TROPE IS TURNG SUPERGIRL GAY
• DC TV WATCH: ‘GOTHAM’S’ GAY TWIST, IS ‘SUPERGIRL’ NEXT?
• 6 BIG SPOILERS FOR SUPERGIRL SEASON 5, OM GAY ADOPTN TO BRAIAC'S FUTURE
• MARVEL ARE RELEASG A GAY CAPTA AMERI THIS SUMMER

IS SUPERGIRL GAY THE TV SHOW OR IS IT ANOTHER CASE OF QUEERBAG?

Alex, an outrageoly smart, effective special agent, and adopted sister to Supergirl, realiz she's gay when she meets police tective Maggie Sawyer (who, the ic book world, is actually Batwoman's partner).

— ned rey moreno ? (@Hajabeg) January 4, 2017A man terpts her viewg to tell her she's beg "nsirate and disrpectful" of the children on board and that she shouldn't expose them to the "gay abomatn" on her screen. He sts racial slurs and homophobic ephets at her, before mandg a flight attendant move him to another seat.

FANS THK SUPERGIRL IS GAY AS SEASON 6 CH CLOSE TO FALE EPISO

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SUPERGIRL’S SERI FALE COULD HAVE BEEN GAYER

8% of regular characters on broadst scripted primetime programmg were gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer. Leigh's empathetic, vulnerable performance brgs the story to life—so persuasively that fans have asked her whether she's gay, she jok over the phone. Is Supergirl Gay the TV Show or Is It Another Case of Queerbag?

Is she gay wh her Superrp ship? Article ntu below advertisementOne of the biggt qutns people have about Supergirl is whether or not she’s gay, sce there seems to be some qutnable queerbag gog on the Instagram / @supergirlcwArticle ntu below advertisementThe reason fans of Supergirl thk her character might be gay is that they’ve pieced together clu om prev episos orr to e to such a huge ncln. One er on Twter named @CloiSuperrp wrote, “Lena is the one who mak Kara happy & hopeful bee Supergirl is gay and love wh Lena Luthor.

SUPERGIRL’S SERI FALE COULD HAVE BEEN GAYER

" That same er also posted, “Supergirl is gay wh Lena, her bt iend & love tert.

” Article ntu below advertisementIn realy, don’t look like Supergirl is actually gay the show. Kara was romantilly lked to Mon-El at the time, but Zari said she felt the scene "was jt gay. '"Some 'Superrp' fans said they felt the wrers queerbaed them many scen Queerbag, as fed by Lexi, is "the rporatn of apparently gay characters or same-sex relatnships" to visual media, typilly movi or TV shows, "as a means of appealg to gay and bisexual dienc while matag ambiguy about the characters' sexualy.

‘SUPERGIRL’ BOSS ON “THOUGHTFUL” COMG OUT STORY AND “BURY YOUR GAYS” FEARS

Lexa's ath sparked an outcry among fans and wispread discsns about the harmfulns of the "Bury Your Gays" trope, which LGBTQ characters are disproportnately killed vastatg or trmatic ways. "It is a shame that after all the years they really end Superrp's story wh 'iends, ' the same word that has been ed on the show, that has been ed by homophobic fans and actors sce the begng to avoid discsg the love of two women, " she wrote an email to Insir after the fale aired.

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"Maybe the wrers thk actg super gay is nceled out by g words like that, " Zari said her email about the way the scene was shot ma Zari believe Lena and Kara were gog to kiss, so she was disappoted that the two hugged stead. And the fandom's disappotment, as a whole, was loud on social phras "SUPERGIRL IS GAY" and "SUPERCORP KISSED" trend on Twter after the seri fale aired, wh the latter referrg to an alleged set photo beg circulated on social media that appeared to show an alternate versn of Lena and Kara's nversatn, which the two kissed. We’ve put together this list to troduce some of the most fluential gay superhero, rangg om groundbreakg figur like Marvel’s Northstar to characters like Harley Qun who only me out the past few 12 most inic gay superhero1) Wonr WomanDiana of Themyscira has a long and storied history as a queer in.

IS ‘SUPERGIRL’ CHARACTER ALEX DANVERS COMG OUT AS GAY IN SEASON 2?

(CC-BY-SA)2) MidnighterPossibly the bt-known gay superhero ic book circl, Midnighter was created as a parody of Batman, startg off the adult-rated Wildstorm ic Stormwatch.

As one of the origal X-Men, he was portrayed as straight for s beg outed as gay 2015. Thanks to the X-Men ics’ love of time travel hijks, there are actually two versns of this character at the moment: A teenage Iceman who realized he was gay after Jean Grey read his md, and an adult versn who stayed the closet and dated women for years, but me out after beg nonted by his younger self.

The recent Iceman solo seri foced on his life after this revelatn, earng a mixed rponse bee while ’s great to see a gay character gettg their own ic, his emotnal arc is a rather old-fashned g-out story. She first appeared as Batman’s love tert the 1950s, shortly after the publitn of Sctn of the Innocent, a book that acced Batman of homosexual propaganda. In recent years she was rewrten to be gay herself, a ntroversial cisn that led to some problems of s her ic’s creators wanted her to marry her girliend, DC nixed the cisn by sayg hero “shouldn’t have happy personal liv, ” a dub statement that sounds pretty ridiculo the ntext of, say, Superman.

‘SUPERGIRL’ BOSS ON “THOUGHTFUL” COMG OUT STORY AND “BURY YOUR GAYS” FEARS

After years of hts, he me out as gay 1992.

LGBTQ and gay superhero list:Wonr Woman (DC Comics). But the biggt ‘downer’ for me this season is the very aggrsive ph the wrers have taken when to homosexualy. One of the ma characters, Alex Danvers – the ‘sister’ of Supergirl – found out she was gay when she fell love wh a lbian female p Natnal Cy.

So the Danvers character me out of the closet, tellg her iends she was gay, and then eventually moved wh the female p. And of urse the wrers ma sure to clu lots of gay drama along the way as this whole scenar played out over several episos. At this pot I’ve had all I n take of the hollywood wrers forcg homosexualy and liberal polics to Supergirl.

THE SECRET INTY TROPE IS TURNG SUPERGIRL GAY

Of urse I do know that the ma wrer, Greg Berlanti, is gay. For this gay geek, the Girl of Steel has always had way more appeal than the Man of, Superman is more inic than his female , but as superhero go, he's utterly borg. As a feme gay man I also always loved the fact that Supergirl is jt like Superman, only, well, a girl.

Supergirl has all -- she jt need that one special story to really cement her gay in stat; that one tale that will forever help to fe her and the important role she plays our superhero pop culture world. She's the gay versn of Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen, only Dolly is treated as an is optimistic her take on Supergirl will fd queer nverts: "Even if you don't thk Supergirl is your thg, pick up.

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DC TV WATCH: ‘GOTHAM’S’ GAY TWIST, IS ‘SUPERGIRL’ NEXT?

“They’re like, ‘So this year Alex is gog to be gay, ’ ” says Leigh. ’ And at the same time bought her ic books that show different [gay] characters, like Batwoman, and showed her all the different stori that she uld hang on to, bought her ffee, sat and jt listened to this girl, and this girl jt sobbed and jt let out.

6 BIG SPOILERS FOR SUPERGIRL SEASON 5, OM GAY ADOPTN TO BRAIAC'S FUTURE

While Alex is a creatn unique to the TV seri, the character of Maggie Sawyer was troduced 30 years ago an issue of Superman, where she quickly beme a trailblazer as one of the earlit openly gay characters mastream ic books. Supergirl Season 6 has left fans speculatg that our pe-wearg superhero might be gay. Why fans thk Supergirl is gayFans on Twter are nvced that Melissa Benoist’s character Supergirl is gay.

One fan exclaimed, “SUPERGIRL IS GAY and wh Lena, her bt iend and love tert, they’re the perfect scriptn of Clark’s weddg vows. ”Another claimed, “Lena is the one who mak Kara happy and hopeful bee SUPERGIRL IS GAY and love wh Lena Luthor.

SUPERGIRL IS GAY. SUPERGIRL IS GAY— LilaPk??️‍? (@LilaPk18) October 18, 2021 View Tweet While most fans poted towards Kara and Lena’s unniable chemistry, to prove their pot, Twter er ‘@superkissrp’ went a different route. KEY POINTSChyler Leigh adms she n relate to her "Supergirl" character's g out storyAlex Danver me out as gay "Supergirl" Season 2Leigh and Floriana Lima were humbled by how their on-screen romance is emed signifint by viewers Chyler Leigh opens up about her sexualy and how she n relate to her character “Supergirl.

MARVEL ARE RELEASG A GAY CAPTA AMERI THIS SUMMER

”In “Supergirl” Season 2, Leigh’s character me out as gay. To make matters worse, I was havg multiple panic attacks a day, which part, stemmed om some of the ternalized homophobia I was facg a new relatnship.

I was spired by how she navigated life as a queer adult and how she overme her ternalized homophobia. To make matters worse, I was havg multiple panic attacks a day, which part, stemmed om some of the ternalized homophobia I was facg a new Supergirl was my rpe.

Maggie was taken aback, and she told Alex she didn’t realize that Alex was gay.